There is one impressive thing about Keir Starmer’s government
I am going to shock Spectator readers and say something in praise of the government. There is one area where…
It’s a bit rich for Starmer to say the Tories should be ashamed
You always know it’s going to be a good PMQs when things start with Ian Lavery. After a winding and…
David Lammy’s jury reforms aren’t bold – they’re brazen
King John placing his seal on Magna Carta 810 years ago is widely held to be a low point for…
Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves
You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force…
Marriage is the real rebellion
Jonathan Swift had a suitably unromantic attitude to holy matrimony. Once, when sheltering under a tree during a storm near…
David Lammy wouldn’t even show up to defend abolishing juries
Wantage may seem an unlikely birthplace for England’s greatest gift to the world. Yet as well as being the site…
Rachel Reeves is a true disaster artist
It is genuinely astonishing that Rachel Reeves isn’t accompanied by the Benny Hill theme at all times. Her ability to…
The monumental self-delusion of Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves has been speaking to the newspapers trying to sell her Budget, which given her communication abilities is a…
Creasy’s opposition is the best advert for Mahmood’s migrant crackdown
One must say this for the Home Secretary, she is a Parliamentary Pugilist. While the general demeanour of the government…
Even Labour MPs are tiring of Starmer
With the country looking forward to Rachel Reeves’s big moment next week – in much the same way you would…
Sydney Sweeney, the Hollywood radical
Every time you feel down about Britain’s out-of-touch elites, a look across the Atlantic is a reassuring reminder that it…
Keir Starmer can’t even commit governmental suicide
It’s not often the Prime Minister gets a derisive laugh from the House of Commons for telling them that he…
The BBC’s MP defenders have all lost their minds
The BBC’s editing scandal has reached the House of Commons. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy made a statement by the government…
David Lammy has a future in panto
Beadle’s About ran from 1986 to 1996. In it, Jeremy Beadle would blunder round the United Kingdom playing elaborate practical…
Calamity Lammy had no answers on the wandering Algerian
One of the things we ought to consider more in judging politicians is whether they add to the gaiety of…
Jeffrey Epstein may yet wreak more havoc on Keir Starmer
Short of dressing the former Duke of York in a Carmen Miranda-style fruit headdress and attaching two Catherine wheels to…
Landlords need protecting too
Do you know how much faeces 30 dogs can produce over a couple of years? I have some idea because…
The assisted suicide bill’s backers are abysmal
In the midst of all the slip ups, the corruption and the lies, you might have forgotten the most consequential…
Have you heard Keir Starmer’s grating new catchphrase?
‘That’s the difference a Labour government makes!’ The Prime Minister has taken to ending the self-congratulatory rants he deploys in…
Calamity Lammy had no answers on the migrant sex offender debacle
Hadush Kebatu’s Magical Mystery Tour of North London was the subject of this afternoon’s debate in the Commons. In a…
How America’s Wasps lost their sting
They moved, with a sort of nonchalant intent, up the aisle to make communion with their God; the men in…
Ellie Reeves is even more incompetent than her sister Rachel
Have you ever wondered what a less competent Rachel Reeves would be like? If you’re a small business owner, the…
Big Ange just can’t say sorry
When John Profumo had to resign due to scandalous behaviour, he famously went to clean lavatories. Angela Rayner, by contrast,…
Keir Starmer is the king of porkies
Samworth Brothers are the biggest producers of pork pies in Britain. Or so they claim. I suspect they will find…
When will Labour be honest about its China spy problem?
Yvette Cooper managed to say ‘let me be clear’ twice, in a couple of minutes during her interview with Nick…
