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Is the US-Israel special relationship over?
Until recently, the Israeli right regarded US President Donald Trump as its greatest ally. He was often described in quasi-religious…
It turns out being a hunter-gatherer wasn’t so great after all
The science writer Jared Diamond once called agriculture ‘the worst mistake in the history of the human race’. Yuval Noah…
Is Trump’s quest for peace doomed?
J.D. Vance jokingly compared himself to Richard Nixon earlier this week. ‘Young senator, vice-president, writes some bestselling books, is hated…
Venezuela’s earthquake is the cruelest blow
Venezuela thought its luck was changing. Then the earthquakes stuck. For a country that’s economy has long been in tatters,…
Is Burnham brave enough to scrap the triple lock?
Loss avoidance is one of the strongest forces in the world. It’s a fundamental of human nature – and therefore…
Six ways the BBC could save money
I’m unlikely to be invited to dinner at BBC director general Matt Brittin’s any time soon but judging by the…
What Burnham can learn from the Baldwin trap
Of Britain’s 58 prime ministers to date, 31 have been graduates of Oxford University and 14 from Cambridge. But putative…
Why Britain has a medicine shortage
Across Britain today, people will take prescriptions to pharmacies and be told they can’t be fulfilled. After hearing a lifetime…
Five things I’m hearing about the Burnham ascendancy
We are at the phony war/silly season stage of the Andy Burnham ascendancy and there’s a lot of nonsense flying…
Parliament has become dangerously mawkish
Parliament always has an otherworldly feel; it’s a world of gothic crenelations, of specialised language, of deliberate artifice. But something…
Revealed: The Green Party proposal for menstrual leave
The Green Party is considering giving ‘all workers who menstruate’ an additional 36 days’ paid leave a year, The Spectator…
Who can save America’s 250th birthday?
“They’re taking that down,” says Keith Krach when I ask if the White House’s UFC stage will still be up…
South Africa now has its answer to ICE
A force of 10,000 inspectors is being recruited to weed out foreigners: door-to-door across the nation, they will check mines,…
Will Bibi go into exile?
In January 2027, Benjamin Netanyahu could leave office for the final time. In the middle of a corruption trial at…
Is King Charles really being open about his finances?
When it was announced that King Charles was going to become the first monarch in history to release details of…
Tapped out of government
Labour’s never-ending psychodrama took yet another magnificent twist today. It looks as if Sir Keir Starmer won’t be alone in…
Andy Burnham is not the messiah
Labour’s almost messianic embrace of Andy Burnham, the near-crazed glint in the eyes of the party’s backbenchers when they whisper…
Prime minister Andy Burnham spells trouble for the southeast
Andy Burnham is not giving much away as to what a government led by him would look like. Given that it…
Why won’t the UN believe all women, including Jews?
Why must Jewish women beg to be believed? Why does that sacred mantra of the progressive classes – “Believe women”…
Why the crackdown on Raise the Colours might be good news
Oxfordshire County Council stamped down hard on Raise the Colours’ flag-flying operations this week. Having complained that flags on lamp-posts…
A surgeon for Burnham’s Cabinet?
With just weeks until he is set to waltz into No. 10, Andy Burnham has been quick out of the…
Labour’s conversion therapy bill is extremely dangerous
The Labour government has just announced plans to push forward with a ban on conversion therapy, apparently to protect LGBT+…
Is air conditioning actually bad for the planet?
The Met Office has extended the heat warning as the heatwave continues into its fourth day – and yesterday saw…
Can Israel fend off Hezbollah without alienating America?
As the 60-day period of negotiations stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding between Iran and the US gets under way,…
Lowe and behold: Restore turns on its leader
Oh dear. It looks as though Rupert Lowe’s merry gang of ethnonationalists are in a spot of trouble. Prominent Restore…
