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What Labour should have learnt from Dominic Cummings
‘O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?’ Keir Starmer seems to have mirrored Juliet after deciding to move on Chris Wormald on as Cabinet…
Is it a surprise middle-class women are using Ozempic most?
New research reveals a startling truth about the people paying thousands for weight-loss drugs: they’re mostly middle-aged, wealthy women. In…
Why can’t this advert depict a black sexual harasser?
A Transport for London (TfL) advert has been banned for ‘perpetuating a negative racial stereotype about black men’. The decision,…
Morocco should be allowed to cull its stray dogs
Imagine if spectators at the London Olympics had to gingerly make their way past loose pit bull terriers and XL…
Nancy Guthrie and the gamification of crime
Nancy Guthrie had been missing for less than 48 hours when the game began. Not the investigation, which was already…
France can no longer ignore the menace of left-wing violence
Police in France arrested nine people on Tuesday evening in connection with the death of a 23-year-old student in Lyon…
The martyrdom of Chris Kaba
In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s great satirical look at 1980s New York, a white Wall Street trader accidentally…
Reform U-turns on two-child benefit cap
It is Robert Jenrick’s big day out today. The newly-minted Reform ‘Shadow Chancellor’ is making his first speech since his…
Should Reform commit to lowering the minimum wage?
The unemployment rate has risen to 5.2 per cent, the highest non-Covid level since 2015. Unemployment is now up by…
Is BrewDog finished?
The news that the Scottish beer company BrewDog has put itself up for sale has been greeted with a mixture…
Why I helped take back the Chagos Islands
Peros Banhos, Chagos Islands On Monday at 08.52 local time, 02.52 GMT, I waded ashore to the Chagos archipelago alongside…
Inflation is down – but for how long?
Britain seems to be turning a corner. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics show the rate of…
How many right-wing parties do we really need?
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the…
How many right-wing parties do we really need?
Reform has topped every national poll for a good long while – benefitting, as the Greens also have and the…
The truth about trans violence
The latest “trans violence” was committed by a heterosexual man who went to a hockey game in Rhode Island and…
James Orr is Reform’s new Head of Policy
It has been a busy few days for Reform UK. Having dominated the last summer recess, this week they are…
Is the war in Ukraine any closer to ending?
Is the latest round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks, sponsored by the United States and currently under way in Geneva, likely…
Long may the Met’s phone theft crackdown continue
I was in London recently carrying a simple piece of kit I never thought I would need: a lanyard tethering…
Keir Starmer doesn’t know how close his government is to collapse
Today’s unemployment figures aren’t just a reminder of the mess the government has made of the jobs market with its…
The right isn’t ready for the impact of AI
In the final scene of Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart explains to Ingrid Bergman why she’ll regret staying with him – ‘maybe…
The Commonwealth voting scandal
Labour’s new Representation of the People Bill, introduced to Parliament last week, has drawn attention because it will give around…
The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers
Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged…
Nigel Farage unveils his shadow cabinet
It is parliamentary recess and once again, Reform is making all the running. Having successfully rebuffed Labour’s plans to cancel…
Ed Miliband’s delusional energy deal with California
What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they…
The Bezos-Musk rivalry and the changing power of media
Elon Musk knows something Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Each has had turns as the world’s richest man, and both are media…
