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.

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…

Douglas Ross gets in a flap at FMQs

18 September 2025 11:40 pm

The otherwise run-of-the-mill First Minister’s Questions in the Scottish Parliament came to a dramatic conclusion this afternoon. Before the Presiding Officer…

First illegal migrant deported under ‘one in, one out’ deal

18 September 2025 10:09 pm

Well, well, well. At long last, two months after it was agreed, the first illegal migrant has been deported from…

Tulip Siddiq under scrutiny over citizenship claims

18 September 2025 9:45 pm

Oh dear. Former government minister Tulip Siddiq has come under scrutiny over former claims she made about holding a Bangladesh…

Khan: Trump has fanned flames of far right

17 September 2025 9:55 pm

Sadiq Khan has taken to the august pages of the Guardian today to vent about the US President, just hours…

Ex-Labour councillor charged over Westminster honeytrap scandal

17 September 2025 9:30 pm

Well, well, well. This morning news has come that 28-year-old Oliver Steadman, a former Labour councillor, has been charged with…

Two ex-Tory MPs defect to Reform

16 September 2025 11:31 pm

You spend ages waiting for a defection then two come along at once. On the same day that former Tory…

Migrant deportations fail for second day in a row

16 September 2025 10:34 pm

It’s not been Sir Keir Starmer’s week. After a 100,000-strong march at the weekend saw Brits protest issues like Britain’s…

China hawks demand spy probe answers

16 September 2025 9:19 pm

Oh dear. It seems that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has blundered again. The latest furore is about the agency’s…

Starmer aide quits over explicit Diane Abbott messages

16 September 2025 1:32 am

When it rains for Starmer, it pours. As if the Prime Minister didn’t have enough on his plate – what…

Full list: Labour MPs slamming Starmer

15 September 2025 11:56 pm

Oh dear. If Sir Keir Starmer thought his first 12 months in office had been rocky, his second year in…

Danny Kruger defects to Reform

15 September 2025 9:38 pm

Another day, another defector joins Reform. This time it’s Tory MP Danny Kruger, who has joined Nigel Farage’s outfit to…

Alastair Campbell apologises over false Charlie Kirk claim

15 September 2025 8:36 pm

Well, well, well. It’s not often that onetime New Labour spinner Alastair Campbell expresses any form of contrition. But after…

Man arrested over murder of Charlie Kirk

12 September 2025 11:40 pm

To the US, where the FBI has been searching for Charlie Kirk’s shooter, after the 31-year-old was tragically killed while…

Penalty fares surge after Jenrick Tube stunt

12 September 2025 9:57 pm

Robert Jenrick has had a good summer. Back in June, the shadow justice secretary caused a social media stir when…

Lords line up against assisted dying

12 September 2025 8:47 pm

Happy Friday, one and all. It is a big day in the House of Lords as peers gear up to…