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Anti-Semitism is a virus – and it’s spreading
To eradicate a virus, one needs precision. The origin of the threat needs to be identified, as do the circumstances…
In the local elections, think local
In March, just before Artemis II rounded the far side of the Moon, the Transport Secretary had her own lunar…
It’s time for Starmer to go
The Book of Common Prayer asks that those who ‘suffer for the sake of conscience’ might be strengthened. Those prayers…
The Spectator won’t give up on Gentleman’s Relish
Last week our cookery writer Olivia Potts scooped the world by revealing that AB World Foods was to cease production…
We can’t afford to keep the pension triple lock
When Britons go to the polls next month, the results will likely reveal just how un-United the Kingdom has become.…
Trump: the boy who cried war
Did Donald Trump ever intend to obliterate Iranian civilisation? Some will see the past week as one in which the…
A Ukrainian win is more important than ever
On 3 April we mark 1,500 days since Russia invaded Ukraine; on 11 June, the conflict will have lasted longer…
The Tories are the real green party
You might describe it as the Polanski paradox. The party which calls itself Green, which has concern for the environment…
The West should double down on the Iran war
Donald Trump may be the volatile leader of an unstable coalition. America’s numerous interventions in the Middle East may have…
The King is still our Trump card
George III has not been well remembered on either side of the Atlantic. Despite reigning for almost 60 years, in…
Ed Miliband must go
Economic forecasting was created, J.K. Galbraith said, to make astrology look respectable. It is not difficult to imagine what the…
Is it still worth going to university?
When self-styled ‘Money Saving Expert’ Martin Lewis gate-crashed Kemi Badenoch’s Good Morning Britain interview to reprimand the Conservative leader over…
Can Keir Starmer keep us safe?
‘Shape without form, shade without colour. Paralysed force, gesture without motion.’ T.S Eliot’s lines from ‘The Hollow Men’ sum up…
Keir Starmer can only delay the inevitable for so long
Wes Streeting is known to be a Spectator reader. Pinned on the Health Secretary’s office wall, as he revealed in…
How to fight the AI revolution
Ask ChatGPT to write a Spectator leader about the risks of AI and it begins like this: ‘There are two…
A decade on, Brexit still means Brexit
It’s been almost a full decade since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Inside Labour, whatever words are muttered…
The Tories and Reform should present a united front
In the summer of 1643, as the dispute between Charles I and parliament raged on, Sir William Waller wrote to…
Our duty to British Jews
Are Jews safe in Britain? To even have to ask the question is extraordinary. But a recent survey has found…
Donald Trump is confronting a reality that Europe has ignored
Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolas Maduro was a brilliantly executed coup. It was also an exhibition of America’s hard power,…
Who’s up to the challenge of restoring Britain’s prosperity?
In 1956, Malta held a referendum on joining the United Kingdom. Since the islands were economically reliant on the Royal…
The radical message of Christianity
A meeting planned in secret. A message deemed subversive. The authorities both antagonised and confused. The gatherings of the early…
Labour’s dereliction of duty over defence
Last week, our political editor, Tim Shipman, revealed a recent meeting between Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the Chief…
What is a ‘fair’ trial, Mr Lammy?
Why are jury trials so precious? According to one prominent alumnus of Harvard Law School, who was writing in protest…
It’s not science if you can’t question it
Follow the Science. The Science is settled. Two phrases which invoke the power of open inquiry to close down open…
Labour isn’t working
Labour: the clue should be in the name. In March, Keir Starmer branded Labour the ‘party of work’. If ‘you…
