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Matt Goodwin unveiled as Reform MP hopeful
Andy Burnham may not be standing – but at least we know one man who is. With only five weeks…
Of course babies aren’t born with a ‘gender identity’
‘It’s a girl!’ New parents, after a long labour or at a mid-pregnancy scan, take huge joy from discovering the…
GDP per capita is the fairest way to decide pay rises for MPs
Hiking MPs’ pay is very much in vogue among certain sections of the SW1 chattering classes. The argument runs like…
Why Jew-hate doesn’t add up
Life expectancy across Europe is 81 years. An 81-year-old European dying today would have been born on the day Auschwitz…
The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob
A basic question all Americans should ask themselves before they draw any other conclusions about events in Minneapolis is this:…
We’ll miss the bar chains when they’re gone
The news that the Revolution chain of bars has gone into administration may not immediately fill Spectator readers with sorrow.…
Asylum hotels aren’t the problem
This government knows that if it doesn’t turn the tide on migration it is destined for electoral oblivion. The Home…
Could the Japanese economy crash out?
Is the Japanese economy about to crash? This once unthinkable prospect is now very much thinkable as concerns grow, and…
The joy of Labour psychodrama
As the three-word headline, ‘STARMER BLOCKS BURNHAM’ smashed on to our phone screens on Saturday, I felt I could almost…
Ed Miliband is killing Aberdeen
‘It’s Scotland’s oil,’ cried the slogan of the SNP in the 1970s when the party first began a serious drive…
What Keir Starmer should say to Xi Jinping
Keir Starmer is flying to China today with a delegation of business leaders in order to build ties with Beijing.…
How Israel did the impossible – and brought the hostages home
On 25 October 2023, speaking as Israel prepared to expand its ground campaign in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Lublin’s lost Jews are a warning to Europe
Going to Lublin in eastern Poland is a bit like visiting Pompeii. The city’s old town – compact, intricate, fetchingly tarnished…
How to make sense of Minnesota
The fights in Minnesota aren’t just between the protesters and ICE, they also seem to be between President Trump and…
Melania the movie will send Bluesky ballistic
As America stayed inside at the weekend, terrified and frozen, the White House hosted its own movie night: the first-ever…
How not to fix British art
Another day, another opinion on what’s wrong with the arts. This week we’ve got a report, ‘Class Ceiling’, by Manchester…
Inside Zack Polanski’s night in Heaven
On Sunday night, the Green party booked out the famed gay London nightclub, Heaven, for what they said was going…
How Shabana Mahmood’s police reforms could backfire
This afternoon, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood unveiled a set of sweeping police reforms. These include increased police response times, the…
Rael Braverman joins Reform (again)
The in-and-out movements of the Bravermans have been quite something to behold. This morning it was the turn of Suella…
Real conservatives should join Reform
That sound you can hear is panic. In the past week, articles have appeared by leading Conservatives including Danny Finkelstein,…
Has Xi Jinping fought off another coup?
According to unconfirmed reports, General Zhang Youxia, China’s vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), sent a company of troops…
Reform’s by-election hypocrisy
The Tory defections to Reform are continuing to mount up, with former home secretary Suella Braverman the latest to cross…
America is far safer than you think
‘If it bleeds, it leads,’ Skim through the headlines of today’s American papers and you’ll struggle to find much that’s…
What centrists keep getting wrong
There’s a reason why centrists keep failing: their formula of triangulating between two sides of a debate in order to…
There’s no great mystery to the Andy Burnham affair
A doe-eyed Andy Burnham has appeared looking sad across media outlets, hurt that he has been politically outmanoeuvred by Sir…
