Does banning social media for under-16s work?
On Monday, the House of Lords threatened to derail the government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill by reintroducing an amendment…
Petrol shortages aren’t coming for Britain
Oil prices rose this morning thanks to the fact no one really knows if the Strait of Hormuz has reopened…
Flat out: the property squeeze crushing the young
Last month, a new account called London Price Drop appeared on X. It has already gained more than 14,000 followers…
Let teenage boys discover the English countryside
When I was four, the progressive teachers at my primary school thought it would be wise to teach us how…
Meningitis outbreaks are becoming rarer in Britain
The premature death of two young people from meningitis after an outbreak of the disease in Kent is a tragedy.…
Is measles really on the rise?
A new narrative began at the start of the year, pushed by senior government figures including the Prime Minister, linking…
Petrol is still (relatively) very cheap
On Tuesday, Reform UK held a press conference in a petrol forecourt near the spa town of Buxton. The party…
No, Britain is not about to run out of gas
Over the weekend, following continued US-Israeli attacks on Iran and the resulting disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz,…
A beginner’s guide to Britain’s right-wing parties
The crowded market place emerging on Britain’s right is bewildering. Nigel Farage and Reform UK appeared to have successfully colonised…
‘Islamism is strangling society like a snake’: an interview with Boualem Sansal
I asked the novelist and dissident Boualem Sansal, recently released from Algerian prison, how he would like to be remembered. He…
No, the internet is not bad for your child
The forces arranged in favour of banning social media for under-16s are powerful and wide-ranging. The unlikely alliance includes the…
Foetal femicide has arrived in Britain
Last summer, the Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi introduced a clause to the Crime and Policing Bill that will decriminalise all…
An apology to Hope Not Hate and Harry Shukman
In August, The Spectator began to investigate allegations that Harry Shukman, a 33-year-old freelance journalist, had used a fake British…
Britain’s cities are descending into a San Francisco-style nightmare
One morning a few months ago I was walking past St James’s Park station when a dishevelled man with his…
Why are psychiatrists scared of sectioning dangerous patients?
The police initially treated last weekend’s stabbings on a train near Huntingdon as a possible terror attack, before confirming it…
Has there been a cover-up of London grooming gangs?
When the grooming gang crisis came under renewed scrutiny at the beginning of this year, the former Tory mayoral candidate…
The Oxford Union’s lynch-mob mentality
The case of George Abaraonye, the incoming Oxford Union president who rejoiced in the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has provoked…
It won’t be easy to fix failing NHS hospitals
The Department for Health has published new performance league tables today which show that four in five NHS hospital trusts…
Labour’s new ‘dark arts’ strategy
Senior Labour figures have given up hope of beating Nigel Farage in 2029. There are two causes for this pessimism.…
Ctrl U: the Online Safety Act is shutting down the internet
This time last year, the UK was consumed by the worst race riots since 2001. It was precipitated by the…
Base instincts: unease on the garrisons housing Afghan refugees
Helping Afghan refugees escape Taliban retribution has not proved easy; ensuring their integration into their host countries more challenging still.…
The right rape gang inquiry
Another inquiry into child sexual abuse, another minister insisting that this time it will be different. Yvette Cooper promises arrests,…
How to game the social housing system
Westminster council has announced that every single social housing tenant in the borough will receive lifetime tenancies. No test of…
Mike Tapp: ‘I’ll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform’
“I’ll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform,” Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal, tells me.…
What happened to Labour’s racial equality agenda?
The ‘eradication of structural racism would be a defining cause’ of Labour’s time in power. That’s what Keir Starmer said…
