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Lefties abandon Stella Creasy’s abortion amendment
A real cheery week in the Commons is looming for our lucky legislators. There’s assisted dying, grooming gangs and a…
Why the markets don’t care much about Israel and Iran
As missiles fly across the Middle East as Israel and Iran embark on what could well become a wider regional…
Will the assisted dying vote be delayed?
All is not well with the Labour lot. It has emerged that more than 50 lefty MPs submitted a letter…
Iran is too weak to wage a ground war against Israel
As Israel advances its surgical reduction of Iran’s nuclear facilities and senior command, and Iran continues to launch missiles randomly…
The delusion of western Palestine activists in Egypt
As the news cycle shifts its gaze to Iran and the escalating war to prevent the psychotic Islamic theocracy from…
Watch: Treasury minister’s car crash interview
Dear oh dear. It’s never a good look to go onto the airwaves to boast about your department’s new infrastructure…
Will Trump respond to Iran damaging the US embassy?
The US embassy in Tel Aviv has been damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile attack which landed close by, raising…
Why Democrats back the wrong side of 80-20 issues
“80-20” issues have become a catchphrase recently. Most voters on those issues favor one policy by overwhelming margins and oppose…
The quiet desperation of Macron’s Greenland visit
Emmanuel Macron spent his Sunday in Greenland on what can best be described as an anti-Trump visit. The French president…
How likely is regime change in Iran now?
The clue is in the name of Israel’s operation. ‘Operation Rising Lion’ is a direct reference to the Pahlavi flag used by…
The danger of recognising a Palestinian state
As Western leaders prepare to gather in New York this week to discuss international recognition of a Palestinian state, a…
America’s next president must study Trump’s golden escalator ride
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended a golden escalator in Trump Tower and into political history. The press corps…
Does the BBC doubt Iran wanted a nuke?
I don’t monitor this stuff all the time. It would be soul destroying. All that happens is that I tune…
Why Russia wants war between Israel and Iran
Israel’s assault on Iran represents a double helping of good news for the Kremlin. Years of two-track diplomacy have allowed…
Dominic Cummings has run out of answers
On Wednesday, The Spectator dispatched me to Dominic Cummings’s Pharos lecture in Oxford. Packed into the Sheldonian theatre was an…
Sunday shows round-up: Reeves weighs in on Israel
Rachel Reeves: ‘Israel has every right to defend itself’ In a major escalation of conflict in the Middle East, Israel…
Bibi has run rings around Trump
Donald Trump likes to see himself as the Great Negotiator but on this occasion Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, appears…
What will Iran do next?
‘They are scared. You can hear it in their voices,’ someone wrote to me on Friday from Tehran. And in…
Why the Israel-Iran war could raise your taxes
If Rachel Reeves is to have any chance of making it to her autumn budget without U-turns or raising taxes,…
What the army parade says about America
So the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the US Army will not be a day that will live infamy. Nor…
Grooming gangs inquiry is welcome, but too late
The announcement that there will, after all, be a statutory inquiry into the child rape and pimping gang scandal – euphemistically referred to as ‘grooming gangs’ – should…
Bristol museum’s trans exhibition is like something out of a cult
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is one of those places that makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel picked-on even…
AI is rotting our children’s minds
‘He’s more machine than man now’, complains Obi-Wan Kenobi of his notoriously fallen apprentice Darth Vader in Star Wars. The same thought…
Saudi Arabia’s soft power art attack
From roughly the 1970s to the mid-2010s, Saudi Arabia was the stuff of nightmares, referred to now, with understatement, as ‘the…
Does anyone really want AI civil servants?
Of course they’ve called it ‘Humphrey’. The cutesy name that has been given to the AI tool the government is…
