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Middle England is finally waking up to the migrant crisis
I don’t know how familiar readers are with the term ‘accelerationism’. It is generally used to describe a tendency on…
Baby Gabriel-Rumi is the latest victim of the global surrogacy business
On Tuesday, a court in Dallas, Texas will convene to decide the fate of a small baby called Gabriel or…
I love Cape Town – but it’s not Africa
There can be few foreign cities where the Spectator, Times and Telegraph are more widely read than Cape Town. In…
Bond’s identity crisis mirrors Britain’s
Sometimes I wake up in the night disturbed by dreams of James Bond. Surely, you might say, that’s the point…
Mike Ashley is the hero of the British high street
Adura, a new name to most of us, turns out to be a joint venture between Shell and the Norwegian…
How I got Rod Liddle sacked
The organised hard left has moved fast after the fall of Jason Arday at Cambridge. They are furious with the…
Politicians’ contempt for the press is contempt for the public
I was hacked by the Chinese a few years ago. Security at News UK, where I was employed on the…
How I learnt to stop worrying and love pessimism
I was on friendly terms with Rod Liddle for quite a few decades. He applied for the job I got…
Don’t blame supermarkets for your expensive shop
I’m sufficiently nostalgic for the British supermarkets I left behind in 2023 that on visits to the UK I run…
Farming today: field fires and food price hikes ahead
I report from FTSE boardrooms and City bars, but I also spend time – mostly in Yorkshire, currently in France…
The mawkish madness of Dobby’s ‘grave’
I don’t know how many readers have visited the grave of Dobby the house-elf, but any who have should immediately…
The Keminisation of the Tory party
Since succeeding Rishi Sunak in November 2024, Kemi Badenoch has had two jobs to perform. Firstly, her constitutional obligation as…
Can I fucking swear yet?: Rod Liddle’s last column
The following column was written in 2024 for former Spectator editor Fraser Nelson when he left the magazine. This is…
Rod’s bravery made others brave too
How do you produce the type of person who cares deeply while seemingly not giving a damn? With great difficulty,…
Why is the C of E still devoted to woke?
The Church of England can always be relied upon to walk into a room just as everybody else is leaving.…
What’s so wrong about a ‘dementia tax’?
Winston Churchill had a name for it. ‘Happy thoughts’ was his description of policy proposals that gave the proposer a…
Bots for tots: welcome to the terrifying era of AI toys
In the centre of Durham last week, at the far end of the old indoor market, my son and I…
The fall of AI’s shooting star
Situational Awareness is a hedge fund that has just taken a spectacular dive. Its name was adopted from the title…
No election? Don’t bet on it
When Dwight D. Eisenhower had to decide whether to launch the D-Day armada he kept a close eye on the…
The utter utopian unwisdom of AI bros
In my belated quest to develop a faint sense of what AI is doing, I have just read Sebastian Mallaby’s…
I wish more people had imposter syndrome
I have spent part of the past week thinking about imposter syndrome, and how we might be able to give…
Tax the poor
A sanctimonious liberal like any other respectable 16-year-old, I made a seminal lurch to the right the first time I…
It’s the ideology, stupid
What do Nigel Farage, gender-critical feminism, masculinity, generalised homophobia and GB News have in common? All have been blamed in…
How to be a truly patriotic millionaire
Patriotic Millionaires UK, led by the former City trader Gary Stevenson and endorsed by Gary Lineker, has ‘100-plus’ members but…
How Reform and the Tories plan to fight Andy Burnham
Kemi Badenoch was in an upbeat mood when she addressed her troops last week. ‘This time last year,’ she said…
