Fraser Nelson

Fraser Nelson is the editor of The Spectator. He is also a columnist with The Daily Telegraph, a member of the advisory board of the Centre for Social Justice and the Centre for Policy Studies.

Vaughan Gething’s very British victory

17 March 2024 4:06 am

Something happened today which, if it were any other country, would be seen to be remarkable: Vaughan Gething, the new…

How to sell The Spectator

16 March 2024 4:45 am

No foreign power will ever be allowed to buy a UK newspaper or magazine: that’s the upshot of this week’s debate…

Parliament has protected press freedom

14 March 2024 5:54 am

In a landmark ruling for press freedom in Britain, the government has today moved to outlaw ownership of national newspapers…

Should the Emiratis be allowed a minority stake in the Telegraph?

12 March 2024 11:55 pm

How much of The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph should the United Arab Emirates be allowed to own? Tomorrow, the…

Labour comes out against Emirati bid for Telegraph

11 March 2024 6:36 pm

This is a big week for the future of the British press with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport…

Lords amendment could thwart Emirati bid for Telegraph and Spectator

27 February 2024 7:06 pm

In an era of information wars, a ban on foreign powers owning news providers is an act of common sense…

Sunak was right to suspend Lee Anderson

25 February 2024 4:34 am

When Lee Anderson was made deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, it was on the understanding that he’d explode now…

Could the Lords stop the Emirati bid for the Telegraph and The Spectator?

14 February 2024 4:17 am

I’ve just given evidence to a House of Lords Select Committee which is considering the future of news and media…

Why Kate Forbes is right about high tax

4 February 2024 8:56 pm

I was on BBC1’s Question Time with Kate Forbes in Glasgow last week in which she was oddly loyal to…

Minister hints that Emirati bid for the Telegraph will be blocked

31 January 2024 12:42 am

Few phrases are more likely to get the blood of ministers going than the words ‘Urgent Question’. Today it was…

Should foreign governments own UK newspapers?

28 January 2024 8:20 am

The Emirati / RedBird IMI bid for the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator is opening up a wider conversation: how…

Fact check: Sunak’s ‘tax cut’ claims

8 January 2024 12:12 am

Rishi Sunak seems to have a New Year’s resolution: to claim that taxes are falling and say it so often…

Why The Spectator didn’t cancel Karol Sikora

1 January 2024 3:29 am

Before the year ends, I’d like to tell the story of Karol Sikora and attempts to have him removed from…

Benefits caseload to rise by 920 a day – for the next five years

30 December 2023 1:22 am

Back when Radio 4’s Thought for the Day was original and insightful, Lionel Blue was a regular source of rabbinical…

UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions

26 December 2023 8:47 pm

A major milestone has just been passed: Britain has become the first major country to halve its carbon emissions. The…

Why are birth rates falling?

22 December 2023 10:45 pm

A few weeks ago, I chaired a debate in Westminster about the falling birth rate and its implications. It was…

What Sunak really said about lockdown

12 December 2023 12:45 am

In the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s leadership campaign, he gave an interview to The Spectator about lockdown which he…

The thinking behind Rishi Sunak’s common sense Net Zero approach

3 December 2023 10:13 pm

Rishi Sunak has a new approach to Net Zero, defining himself against ‘zealots’ and acknowledging the side effects of proposed…

Patrick Vallance and the politicisation of Covid science

21 November 2023 7:57 pm

Throughout the Covid meetings, Sir Patrick Vallance was scribbling almost as much as Michael Gove, leading Boris Johnson to assume…

‘Childhood has been rewired’: Professor Jonathan Haidt on how smartphones are damaging a generation

4 November 2023 9:00 am

Something strange is happening with teenagers’ mental health. In Britain, the US, Australia and beyond, the same trend can be…

Boris Johnson was right to say the NHS was not overwhelmed

1 November 2023 5:30 am

The trivia-obsessed Covid Inquiry has today been having fun with Dominic Cummings’s emails and finding rude words he used about…

Why Angela McLean’s ‘Dr Death’ jibe matters

22 October 2023 11:28 pm

Does it matter if the chief scientific adviser referred to Rishi Sunak as ‘Dr Death’ In a private message to…

In defence of Steve Bell

17 October 2023 6:35 pm

One of Britain’s best-known cartoonists, Steve Bell, says he has been ‘effectively sacked’ by the Guardian after drawing Benjamin Netanyahu.…