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Migrant relocation rumours spark Canary Wharf protest

24 July 2025 12:55 am

Uh oh. Protests have broken out outside an empty Canary Wharf hotel after claims began to circulate that migrants were…

James O’Brien has disgraced himself

24 July 2025 12:46 am

For a man who wrote a book called How To Be Right, James O’Brien sure gets a lot wrong. Consider…

What I saw at Ozzy’s last gig

24 July 2025 12:37 am

Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath did something British groups had not done before. Before them, the British Invasion groups –…

How Britain ended up in the Afghan asylum mess

23 July 2025 10:50 pm

The Afghan data leak has generated a mass of lurid headlines and, no doubt, there is still much analysis, pointing…

The US trade deal may come too late for Japan’s prime minister

23 July 2025 10:32 pm

Relief. That was the overriding emotion in the Japanese financial markets and society at large today when, after months of…

Trump’s Japan deal is a hollow victory

23 July 2025 10:05 pm

The reaction of markets to the US trade deal with Japan shows yet again that if you presage bad news…

Cleverly refuses to back Badenoch on ECHR

23 July 2025 10:05 pm

Kemi Badenoch might have reached an agreement with James Cleverly about his new role in the shadow cabinet, but it…

Cabinet ministers urge Starmer to recognise Palestine

23 July 2025 9:45 pm

Parliament may have risen for recess but that doesn’t mean that Sir Keir Starmer is getting much of a break.…

Ozzy Osbourne, the accidental rock star

23 July 2025 8:36 pm

To conjure an image of England on Thursday 16 October 1969 you could do worse than compressing all of Withnail and…

Who does Colbert think he’s kidding?

23 July 2025 8:00 pm

David Letterman, who by now has retreated into full comedy-hermit mode, posted a bunch of old Late Show clips on…

Russiagate was worse than we thought

23 July 2025 7:00 pm

Yesterday, I wrote about the revelations with which Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, electrified the world. We had all…

I work in the NHS: the government cannot accept doctors’ pay demands

23 July 2025 4:25 pm

Junior doctors are set to strike, despite winning little public sympathy with their demand for a 29 per cent pay…

Tim Davie isn’t fit to lead the BBC

23 July 2025 3:30 pm

Those within the BBC might be afraid to say so, but an ex-producer like me has no such qualms: Tim…

The trouble with Gillian Anderson

23 July 2025 3:12 pm

Imagine, for a moment, that a respected middle-aged British male character actor – Jason Isaacs, let’s say – had been…

The real shock of the Tory reshuffle

23 July 2025 6:30 am

Kemi Badenoch has saved the biggest news of the Tory reshuffle for last. This morning, the headlines were dominated by…

Zelensky’s war on Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies is a disaster

23 July 2025 4:11 am

Cries of ‘Shame!’ rang out in the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, today as lawmakers from Volodymyr  Zelensky’s Servant of the People…

Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon

23 July 2025 3:53 am

When French General Bosquet watched the 600 men of the Light Brigade charge helplessly into the Russian heavy artillery at…

Fateh vs. Frey

23 July 2025 3:31 am

It’s not fair that all the Great American mayoral discussion revolves around the coasts. Sure, Los Angeles has the one…

The man to save the Democratic party: Hunter Biden

23 July 2025 2:56 am

“The one thing that binds each and every one of us is not necessarily love… it’s pain,” Hunter Biden said…

Doctors’ strike on as Streeting fails to win over the BMA

23 July 2025 2:42 am

Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are…

Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are under attack

23 July 2025 2:19 am

The war for Ukraine’s future is being fought not just on the battlefield, but also within its democratic institutions. Today,…

Don’t bet on the Trump economy

23 July 2025 2:00 am

The Trump White House took a victory lap on Monday, declaring in its newsletter that the American economy is back…

Ex-Unite boss under fire over private jets and million-pound hotel project

23 July 2025 1:42 am

Well, well, well. It would appear the former Unite the Union boss Len McCluskey is not immune to the temptation…

Why Trump’s ‘Washington Whatevers’ threat matters

23 July 2025 12:54 am

In The Spectator’s lengthy sit-down interview with President Trump earlier this year, 45 teased the idea that the return of Washington’s…

Farage unveils first defection in Wales

23 July 2025 12:24 am

This afternoon, Nigel Farage unveiled his party’s first defector in the Welsh parliament. Laura Anne Jones was first elected to…