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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…
Stench of failure: Britain’s shameful surrender in the war on drugs
The New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was that rare figure in politics – a progressive who followed the facts.…
Mystic Milei proves ‘austerity’ needn’t be a dirty word
Javier Milei’s election in 2023 was a repudiation of decades of Peronist turmoil, corruption and inflation. Milei offered shock therapy,…
Sir Keir, Emperor of Inertia
In Silicon Valley there is a simple mantra that drives innovation: You Can Just Do Things. Wait for permission from…
The questions the government must answer over the China spying case
Exactly a year ago, this magazine warned that ministers were showing a dangerous naivety towards China. We revealed that the…
What we need from our new Archbishop of Canterbury
There have been 106 Archbishops of Canterbury since Gregory the Great declared Augustine his ‘Apostle to the English’ in 597.…
ID cards are Labour’s alibi for its failure
Questions of identity permeate our politics. What is it to be English, to be British? The Prime Minister sought to…
This is Shabana Mahmood’s moment
What is the point of Keir Starmer? He was the means by which the Labour party could suffocate the hard…
