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When will the EU do a deal with Trump?

13 May 2025 8:38 pm

China has wrapped up a pretty good trade deal. The UK has managed to agree to lift some of the…

Trump is treating Israel like a nettlesome supplicant

13 May 2025 7:00 pm

When Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the first foreign leaders to congratulate him were Israeli officials. Now, as he…

Reeves’s jobs tax is beginning to bite

13 May 2025 6:59 pm

Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the UK unemployment rate has risen to 4.5 per…

Man arrested after fires at Starmer’s home

13 May 2025 5:41 pm

After it emerged on Monday afternoon that the Metropolitan Police were probing a fire that had broken out at Sir…

Why has the BBC’s gay dating show got a trans contestant?

13 May 2025 4:23 pm

‘The UK’s first ever gay dating show is louder, prouder, and more irresistible than ever,’ says the BBC about I Kissed…

What exactly is the point of Starmer’s EU defence pact?

13 May 2025 4:10 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s cherished agreement on defence with the European Union seems to have been high on the diplomatic agenda…

What the kids get right about the assisted dying bill

13 May 2025 4:00 pm

The brothers Grimm knew that it sometimes takes a child to call out what grown-ups think but dare not say.…

Ukrainians are giving up hope

13 May 2025 3:37 pm

I am a 37-year-old Ukrainian woman, and have recently returned from Odesa, where I was born and grew up, and…

Could the first American Pope be an America First Pope?

13 May 2025 4:42 am

“We do not need loud, forceful communication,” said Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born American prelate Robert Prevost – at his first press conference on Monday, “but…

How Zelensky is calling Putin’s bluff

13 May 2025 4:29 am

As the war between Russia and Ukraine continues on the battlefield, global leaders are waging their own campaigns through diplomacy,…

Can Britain end its dependence on foreign workers?

13 May 2025 3:48 am

Migration, migration, migration. Sir Keir Starmer didn’t express it like that in his Downing Street press conference, but he might…

Hamas is using Edan Alexander to win favour with Trump

13 May 2025 3:30 am

The last surviving American hostage held by Hamas in Gaza is set to be released as early as today, coinciding…

How America betrayed Edan Alexander

13 May 2025 3:09 am

When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed…

My encounter with the PKK’s Abdullah Ocalan

13 May 2025 2:43 am

The Kurdish militia group, the PKK, had decided to disband and lay down its arms, after decades of launching attacks…

Police probe fire at Prime Minister’s home

13 May 2025 2:43 am

To north London, where the Metropolitan Police are investigating a fire that broke out at Sir Keir Starmer’s personal home…

Three key flaws in Starmer’s immigration crackdown

13 May 2025 2:41 am

Sir Keir Starmer wants you to believe he’s serious about bringing immigration down. Faced with the political threat of Reform…

What’s the truth about immigration and economic growth?

13 May 2025 2:11 am

If the consequences of Labour’s heavy losses in the local elections were not already clear, they became so in this…

The state’s Southport narrative is crumbling

13 May 2025 1:32 am

What really caused the countrywide unrest after the Southport massacre last summer? Last week, a report by His Majesty’s Inspectorate…

My advice to Diddy – by Anna Delvey’s attorney

13 May 2025 1:18 am

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team is facing a daunting task. More than 50 witnesses – including A-list stars – are…

Starmer will struggle to deport foreign criminals

13 May 2025 12:12 am

The government is rattled on immigration. Forget its liberal metropolitan supporters: just-about-managing voters from Whitehaven to Waltham Cross are deadly…

Congratulations to Graham King, the asylum billionaire

12 May 2025 11:43 pm

It’s always heartwarming to hear of a person who starts from humble origins and, through sheer entrepreneurial vim, makes something…

Scottish Labour leader turns on assisted dying bill

12 May 2025 10:41 pm

To Holyrood, where parliamentarians will tomorrow vote on Scotland’s assisted dying bill. Scottish Liberal Democrat Liam McArthur has put forward…

Donald Trump can be sensible

12 May 2025 10:21 pm

We’ve learnt three things about the future of world trade from the temporary reprieve over tariffs that the US has…

The graphs that expose Keir Starmer’s failure to ‘stop the boats’

12 May 2025 10:02 pm

After ten months in office, Keir Starmer has promised to ‘finally take back control’ of migration – but what’s his…

The Spectator: the magazine police don’t want you to read

12 May 2025 9:43 pm

Retired special constable Julian Foulkes is one of the latest targets of police officers who seem more eager to crack…