Bridget Phillipson’s perfect storm for schools
In its manifesto, Labour pledged to recruit 6,500 new teachers and the Education Secretary reiterated this a few days after…
Is the end of ‘non-crime hate incidents’ in sight?
Could the end of non-crime hate incidents (NCHIs) be in sight? As the head of the Free Speech Union, I’ve…
Can Trump keep me on side?
I’m in danger of falling out of love with Donald Trump. I was ecstatic when he beat Kamala Harris, delighted…
Leave our Lords alone
Within a few months, the constitution that has served this country so well for hundreds of years will yet again…
Is it time to clean up my act?
I was having a drink in the Bishops’ Bar in the House of Lords last month when I was introduced…
How to be a Lord
At the end of my first day at the House of Lords, I staggered out with so many books and…
Why, at 75, does Graydon Carter still feel the need to impress?
The humblebrag and name-dropping read more like a Craig Brown pastiche than the reminiscences of one of America’s most celebrated magazine editors
Adolescence demonises white working-class boys
This is an extract from today’s episode of Spectator TV, with Toby Young and James Walton, which you can find…
The curse of Disney’s Snow White
One of the early decisions David Zaslav made after becoming the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery in 2022 was to…
I was right – and Gove was wrong – on lockdown
In an otherwise excellent article for the Sunday Telegraph last week about our government’s hopeless pandemic response, Dan Hannan made…
Are you offended by ‘hard-working families’?
Scarcely a day passes without a newspaper story about some absurd ‘language guide’ issued by a public body. This week…
Cracks are appearing in the Cathedral walls
Is the ‘Cathedral’ about to fall down? That’s the name given by the right-wing blogger Curtis Yarvin to denote the…
Colombia is a better place to watch football than Loftus Road
I’ve just returned from Colombia, where I’ve been visiting my daughter. She’s doing a modern languages degree and has to…
Should free speech campaigners hope Andrew Gwynne is prosecuted?
David McKelvey, a former detective chief inspector in the Met Police, has called for the prosecution of Andrew Gwynne, the…
The trouble with criminalising ‘Islamophobia’
When I first heard that Angela Rayner had been tasked with creating an advisory council that will draw up an…
Beware this terrible new AI email feature
A friend of mine got a nasty shock last week after a Google Meet call, thanks to a new AI…
James Tooley’s ordeal is over – but why was he ever suspended?
It’s wonderful to hear that Professor James Tooley, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, has been reinstated after a…
The Trump I (barely) know
I can’t say I know the new President of the United States very well, but during the five years I…
The highs and lows of Dry January
The first week of Dry January was relatively easy. Not falling asleep in front of the television was a pleasant…
Farewell Justin Trudeau, the last of the lockdown tyrants
So farewell then, Justin Trudeau, last of the lockdown tyrants. Or should that be the last of the democratically elected…
Can I be cancelled twice?
One of the biggest regrets of my life was saying yes when Jo Johnson asked if I wanted to be…
Should I become Lord Young of Loftus Road?
When the editor of this magazine called to congratulate me on being given a peerage, he said: ‘It’s QPR’s first…
Could I limit myself to 100 bottles of wine in a year?
Back in January, I wrote about my new year’s resolution to cut down on my drinking. The thought of total…
Why Elon Musk shouldn’t be kicked out of the Royal Society
In a notorious interview in the Sunday Times in 2007, the Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson said, among other things,…
At 61, it’s official: I’m ‘young old’
I read with some disappointment recently that the Encyclopaedia Britannica considers 61 – the age I am now – to…
