Steerpike

Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk.

MI6 boss signs off in style

3 October 2025 3:53 am

Out with old and in with the new. MI6 boss Sir Richard Moore is packing in the clandestine activities for…

NHS Fife’s trans toilet U-turn

2 October 2025 11:08 pm

Well, well, well. It transpires that NHS Fife – the health board caught up in the Sandie Peggie trans tribunal…

Every time Farage was brought up at Labour conference

1 October 2025 9:30 pm

Whisper it, but there’s a name on everyone’s lips at Labour conference. A man who clearly seems to be going…

Reform’s hypocrisy over Labour rhetoric

1 October 2025 9:14 pm

All is not well in Reform HQ. On Tuesday, Nigel Farage broadcast a statement where he claimed that Sir Keir…

Labour kick Owen Jones out of conference

1 October 2025 12:29 am

Much of Labour conference has seen MPs taking aim at Nigel Farage and his Reform party, but it would appear…

Streeting: We need Rayner back

30 September 2025 10:40 pm

Well, well, well. Angela Rayner may have left the government some weeks ago but the mark she made in one…

Darren Jones blasts Labour’s ‘sluggish’ progress

30 September 2025 10:21 pm

The Labour party conference has entered one of its final days and as the time ticks on, politicians are finding…

Mahmood: Farage is ‘worse than a racist’

30 September 2025 9:21 pm

To Labour conference, where a number of conversations are being dominated by another political party: Reform UK. New Home Secretary…

Scottish Labour rule out deal with Reform

29 September 2025 10:26 pm

At the last Labour conference before the 2026 Holyrood election, Scottish Labour is enjoying the limelight. With less than eight…

Scottish Labour goes for Andy Burnham

29 September 2025 5:46 am

Well, well, well. The atmosphere is more than a little tense as Labour conference kicks off in Liverpool. In recent…

Watch: Housing Secretary flails on house building

29 September 2025 2:02 am

A glorious exchange on GB News this morning. Steve Reed, the new Housing Secretary, has been making a big song…

Sarwar: Scotland will reject ‘poisonous’ Farage

29 September 2025 1:35 am

To Liverpool, where politicians and delegates are gathering for Labour’s annual party conference. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has just…

Starmer officially most unpopular PM ever

28 September 2025 7:42 pm

Oh dear. It seems that Keir Starmer’s great big conference reset is beginning well. A blizzard of new polls have…

Labour splits as cabinet minister slams Burnham

26 September 2025 1:01 am

Dear oh dear. Labour conference is just days away but as the party prepares to come together it would appear…

Watch: Boris defends the Boriswave

25 September 2025 9:59 pm

Reform continues to top the polls as Brits remain concerned about migration to the UK. At the start of the…

Afghan granted asylum returned home for holiday

25 September 2025 8:50 pm

New Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is settling into the job: laying out her firm no-nonsense approach to migration and ruffling…

Khan: Trump is racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic

24 September 2025 11:51 pm

Ding ding ding! US President Donald Trump hit out at London mayor Sadiq Khan at the UN general assembly yesterday…

Royal Parks debunk Farage’s swan eating claim

24 September 2025 11:37 pm

To Reform UK, which is continuing to lead Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party in the polls. Nigel Farage has led…

McSweeney under fire over £700k donations

24 September 2025 7:38 pm

Well, well, well. The spotlight is back on Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Morgan McSweeney – and not in…

Trump: Khan wants to put London under sharia law

24 September 2025 1:58 am

Donald Trump’s trip to the UK has finished and it appears his love-in with London has ended too. In a…

Holyrood’s bizarre seagull obsession

24 September 2025 1:36 am

After weeks of suspense, the big day has finally arrived. The Scottish government has arranged a meeting in Inverness with…

Duchess of York’s Epstein email spurred by ‘chilling’ call

23 September 2025 11:06 pm

Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York and former wife of Prince Andrew, has come under scrutiny this week after an…

Streeting: ignore Trump’s autism claims

23 September 2025 9:34 pm

To the US, where President Donald Trump has suggested his administration has ‘found an answer to autism’. On Monday, Trump…

Labour MP backs claim that Farage’s migrant policy is ‘racist’

22 September 2025 11:22 pm

Labour might have recognised Palestinian statehood and green-lighted a new Gatwick runway, but Nigel Farage has once again managed to…

Ed Davey: arrest Elon Musk

21 September 2025 11:23 pm

Liberal Democrat party conference – four words which turn the blood of any lobby journalist cold. Yes, it is that…