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Ed Sheeran has done nothing wrong
So now we know what happens if you refuse to prostrate yourself before the Gaza cult. If you politely decline…
The Scottish Parliament fills me with knuckle-chewing horror
Watching the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, a thought often occurs: if these people won elections, imagine the runners up.…
Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?
“Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Carney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union,…
Why green zealots want to drop ‘net zero’
First, the good news. The Commons select committee on energy security and net zero has called on the government to…
Watch: Sadiq Khan addresses Zack Polanski in Urdu
Zack Polanski was left red-faced at City Hall this morning after Sadiq Khan answered a question from the Green leader…
The Bank of England’s karaoke comrade
The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress appears to be a man of many talents – at least in…
Does Andrew Griffith have what it takes?
Appointments to the shadow cabinet recall Ernest Shackleton’s job advert to cross the Antarctic. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey, small…
The Bank holding interest rates will be of little relief for John Healey
The Bank of England has just voted six-three to hold interest rates at 3.75 per cent, a decision that makes…
The Houthis are complicating Trump’s already failing war
To lose one Middle East sea lane vital for the global economy may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose…
Is Charles Spencer right about King Charles?
As soon as news broke that copies of Charles Spencer’s memoir about the late Princess of Wales, Swan Song: Diana, My…
Who’s afraid of AI?
It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative. Usually, those overseeing the parturition…
Mehdi Hasan is losing the argument on hijabs in schools
When you title your book Win Every Argument, you create the very definition of a hostage to fortune. So it’s…
How to deal with a bore like Macklemore
Exciting news: free speech is high-status again. The decision by the organisers of Ed Sheeran’s US tour to drop anti-Israel…
Lucy Letby and the truth about NHS managers
Read the Thirlwall report on the neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and two kinds of culpability emerge.…
Watch: Polanski butchers his French
Ooh là là, Zack Polanski is at it again. Two days after his Urdu campaign video landed with a thud,…
When will Labour ‘do their bit’ on illegal immigration?
Lisa Nandy’s media-round sounds like the sort of thing you might be signed up to if you failed to make…
Green party activists turn on ‘genocide denier’ Zack Polanski
Green party activists have moaned they are reluctant to campaign for Zack Polanski because he is not sufficiently anti-Zionist, The Spectator can…
Watch: Labour MP calls for war against Israel
Not content with spending his time campaigning for an airport in Pakistan, Labour’s Tahir Ali has now called for Britain…
The Thirlwall report makes for grim reading for Lucy Letby’s supporters
Lady Thirlwall prefaced the launch of her report yesterday with the same message that she launched her public inquiry with…
Why was the BBC so surprised to meet an AI doomer?
A somewhat bemusing interview took place between Victoria Derbyshire and Geoffrey Hinton last week on Newsnight. Hinton, an eminent computer…
Can Reform in Wales turn it around?
The Reform group in the Welsh parliament has just had a nightmare 24 hours. On the first day that the…
Piddington and the idiocy of middle-class progressivism
The Piddington result is in. Ninety-two per cent of the voters in the tiny Oxfordshire village have voted to secede…
Another cost of living crisis is coming
Britain is heading head first towards another cost of living crisis. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
Should Andy Burnham really appoint C of E bishops?
Hmm. Any minute now, the Church Appointments (Repeal of Discriminatory Provision) Bill will remove the last religion-related constraints on Andy…
Holborn and St Pancras is a bizarre constituency
Why is Zack Polanski campaigning in Urdu? Even by the standards of the hypnotic hooter-helper, a man who once sang…
