The problem of Britain’s idle generation
The number of young people not doing anything with their lives has hit its highest level in 11 years. Figures…
The energy price cap rise heaps more misery on Brits
Average gas and electricity bills will rise by £111 a year in April after the regulator Ofgem announced an increase…
Is Britain funding organisations that wish us harm?
Frivolous state funding isn’t only going to chancers, the plain lucky and the devious, but also to those who would…
Has Rachel Reeves broken her fiscal rules?
Rachel Reeves is having to borrow more money than even the worst estimates expected. Figures on the public finances, published…
Strong pay growth will alarm the Bank of England
Britain’s workers have experienced strong pay increases for the third month in a row. Figures on the jobs market, just…
Introducing Spaff: The Spectator Project Against Frivolous Funding
All too often, the Prime Minister recently lamented, Britain’s public servants are happy languishing in the ‘tepid bath of managed…
Reform tops Spectator poll tracker
Nigel Farage’s Reform party are now out in front at the top of The Spectator data hub’s poll tracker. The latest update…
Record Channel crossings expose Starmer’s failure to ‘smash the gangs’
More migrants have illegally crossed the English Channel since 1 January than in any previous year for this period. So…
Gossip is good for you… so I’m told
The Pope hates gossip. In his Christmas message to his Vatican advisers last year, Francis warned that it is ‘an…
Is the UK prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?
One million people will migrate to the UK every year this decade. The result: the UK population will grow by…
How to outsmart DeepSeek
For nearly a decade, the Chinese Communist Party has censored Winnie the Pooh, owing to internet memes comparing the slightly…
Will Chinese AI get the Treasury off the hook?
The launch of the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek has caused turmoil in the markets. The release of China’s newest AI –…
Revealed: GPs are over-diagnosing mental health conditions
Britain is turning sadness into sickness. More than four in five GPs believe that the ups and downs of normal life…
Employment suffers largest fall since pandemic
Rachel Reeve’s £25 billion National Insurance rise is beginning to bite. According to the latest data on our labour market,…
Is public sector headcount out of control?
Eyebrows were raised in the House of Lords this week as the Justice and Home Affairs Committee heard evidence that…
Luke Littler’s bland entourage
Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler, born two weeks after the first iPhone was unveiled, stormed the Professional Darts Corporation world championships…
Why Britain’s benefits problem is likely to get worse
More than half of Britons receive more from the state than they pay in taxes, according to figures from the…
The many faces of pigs in blankets
There are not many phrases that offend me more than ‘pigs in blankets’. The correct name for this dish is,…
Muhammad has been a popular name for ages
Muhammad topped the list of most popular boy’s baby names in England and Wales last year, knocking Noah from first…
Does anyone know how many people live in Britain?
Can Britain trust its economic statistics? The nation’s arbiters of numerical truth, the Office for National Statistics, yesterday released what…
Labour should be cautious about celebrating the fall in net migration
How can you miss over 300,000 migrants? This morning the Office for National Statistics revised up its previous record high…
Inflation surge hits Britain’s ailing economy
Inflation rose to 2.3 per cent in the year to October, up from 1.7 per cent in September – its…
How many farmers will be hit by Labour’s inheritance tax raid?
Tens of thousands of farmers will descend on Westminster in their tractors tomorrow to protest at inheritance tax changes that…
There are now seven million migrant workers in the UK
For the first time ever there are seven million migrant workers in Britain’s job market. Figures released by the ONS…
How did pollsters get Trump’s victory so wrong?
Was Donald Trump’s win unexpected? Not if you followed the betting markets, which had Trump at a two-thirds chance of…
