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Does Labour believe Israel is breaching international law?
It’s a gaffe a day with David Lammy – but now his latest intervention has ruffled more feathers than usual.…
The New York Times finally comes clean about Covid
In June 2021, Jon Stewart appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ridiculed people that dismissed the possibility of a…
Pensioners, it’s your turn to cough up
The welfare state is grotesquely unfair. There are people who receive thousands of pounds from the taxpayer with little government…
Will Labour MPs stomach Liz Kendall’s benefits crackdown?
To underline that there was government agreement on the welfare cuts and reforms she was announcing, Liz Kendall had Keir…
Will Kemi’s anti-net zero campaign bother Labour?
The people’s republic of Holborn and St Pancras is not exactly fertile Tory territory. But it was in a swanky…
Our nuclear submarines are spending too long at sea
A Vanguard-class submarine used for Britain’s nuclear deterrent has resurfaced after a record-breaking 204 days at sea. Relatives gathered on…
NYT outrage as Hezbollah-supporting professor deported
To Donald Trump’s America, where outrage spread across the nation’s left-wing papers at the weekend after it emerged that a…
Asylum appeals aren’t helping Labour close migrant hotels
The top mandarin at the Home Office gave the game away. At a somnolent session of the Commons home affairs…
Why we wrote the 7 October parliamentary report
‘Amnesty International and Harvard,’ says Alan Dershowitz of the 7 October 2023 massacre, ‘blamed it on Israel even before the…
Scotland’s ferry fiasco is never-ending
Scotland’s troubled nationalised shipyard, Ferguson Marine, has failed in its bid to win a crucial order for seven small electric…
Britain has little influence over Israel’s war in Gaza
As the world focused its attention on a possible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, it might have been easy…
Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice
Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to…
Why Kemi Badenoch is abandoning Net Zero
There are two big speeches being made in London today. Shortly after midday, Liz Kendall will rise in the House…
Starmer is taking a big gamble with his welfare cuts
That the welfare bill needs bringing under control is pretty undeniable. According to projections by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility…
Labour announce credit card crackdown in war on waste
After The Spectator’s Spaff probe brought the rather alarming extent of government waste to light, the Labour lot have hastened…
Israel has ‘opened the gates of hell’ in Gaza
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Israel launched a surprise wave of strikes across the Gaza Strip, targeting key…
There is no more hiding from the chilling truth of 7 October
The 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report, chaired by Lord Andrew Roberts, has now been published. It provides a meticulously researched,…
Why can’t the SNP attract anyone with any talent?
Here’s a political conundrum for you. You’re the SNP. You’ve been in power in Scotland since 2007. You’re 13 points…
The plight of James O’Brien
Pity poor James O’Brien. The long-suffering remainer has always had a raw, fiery quality unusual in the British phone-in host.…
French politician calls for return of Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty was given as a gift by France, the United States’s oldest ally, to celebrate our centennial…
Recession? What recession?
The stock market, traditionally a leading indicator, entered correction territory last week. But does that indicate that a recession is…
Is Boris right about the ‘Boriswave’?
Boris Johnson is trying to wash his hands of the unprecedented wave of migration that has seen more than one…
The case against admitting Canada to the US
Fans of South Park are familiar with the long-running gag involving the show’s portrayal of Canadians as crudely animated, detail-less animated cutouts,…
Badenoch lays claim to Thatcher’s legacy
It is a hundred years next month since Margaret Thatcher’s birth – so what Conservative leader would miss the chance…
Do Labour know what they want from welfare reform?
Liz Kendall and her ministerial colleagues were forced to offer an hour’s worth of holding statements about the government’s welfare…
