Andrew Gilligan

The Muslim Council of Britain is losing relevance

13 June 2026 3:30 pm

It’s nearly time for the Muslim Council of Britain’s annual general meeting, where its new leadership will be elected. Alas,…

Will Labour suspend the National Association of Muslim Police?

12 June 2026 12:54 am

The leaders of Britain’s Jews have raised ‘serious questions concerning police impartiality’ and asked that the National Association of Muslim…

Meet the Green councillor who demanded ‘heads on sticks’

9 June 2026 4:07 pm

The Greens have given a key post in their new ruling cabinet in the London borough of Lambeth to a…

Did Haringey’s new Labour leader once defend Jihadi John?

6 June 2026 4:00 pm

It’s not just the Greens who attract people with shameful records of extremism. In the London borough of Haringey, Labour…

The disturbing truth about the National Association of Muslim Police

5 June 2026 2:30 pm

The official representative body for Muslim police officers in Britain has branded Zionism “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred,”…

How the Manchester media failed to scrutinise Andy Burnham

27 May 2026 4:36 pm

‘Our Andy’ is, of course, Manchester – and Manchester is, of course, him. In recognition of that, no worshipper at…

Burnham’s buses show why he will probably fail as prime minister

22 May 2026 12:30 pm

It’s one of those political facts that everyone parrots without really knowing whether it’s true: Andy Burnham has, in his…

How the wheels came off the Brexit bus

16 May 2026 4:30 pm

The wheels have come off the Brexit bus. The Spectator is grieved to report that the famous red ‘Vote Leave’…

The disturbing truth about Britain’s Islamopopulism movement

11 May 2026 9:48 pm

One of the under-reported stories of the local elections is the steady growth of Muslim independents. Including Lutfur Rahman’s Aspire…

Did antisemitism cost the Greens at the local elections?

10 May 2026 10:50 pm

Did the Greens’ racist candidates cost them a majority in one of their top targets? The London borough of Lambeth…

What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?

9 May 2026 11:36 pm

Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the…

This Green candidate thinks the UK is a ‘terrorist state’

6 May 2026 7:10 pm

A Green candidate at tomorrow’s election has called the UK a ‘terrorist state,’ blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s demise on the ‘web…

The Green candidate who thinks Iran should bomb the White House

6 May 2026 12:35 am

A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy…

March of the Greenshirts: Polanski’s party are the real racists

2 May 2026 9:00 am

‘Back us to stop the far right,’ say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far…

The Greens are facing a reckoning

1 May 2026 10:36 pm

On subjects related to Jews, Zack Polanski, Mothin Ali and the other political children in the new Green party have been…

The Green party candidate who wants to ‘burn Zionism to the ground’

23 April 2026 6:35 pm

A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to…

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians

21 April 2026 3:45 pm

A Green Party council candidate in Bournemouth says “the Zionists killed 20 million Christians” and are “trying to control the…

Why is this Green candidate sharing an anti-semitic post?

17 April 2026 9:52 pm

A terror attack on a synagogue was “not anti-semitism” but was “revenge” for Israel “murdering people,” according to a video…

The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate

15 April 2026 10:52 pm

The extremism of some in the Green party is increasingly being compared to Labour in Jeremy Corbyn’s time. But there…

The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

12 April 2026 7:57 pm

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat…

What we get wrong about extremism

3 April 2026 4:14 am

Last year I obtained a leaked copy of the new government’s ‘counter-extremism sprint’. It caused a huge political backlash –…

What Hope not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values

26 March 2026 5:00 pm

Even by its own recent standards, the latest investigation from the anti-extremism group Hope not Hate was fabulously, joyously, Rizla…

All the worst people like the ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition

18 March 2026 5:05 pm

Not worried enough yet by the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’? Here’s another red flag: the mild, nuanced, or…

This ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition is truly sinister

10 March 2026 6:58 pm

The government’s new official definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ is 144 words long. But in a sign that even ministers now…

The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy

7 March 2026 3:38 am

Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of…