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The National Theatre deserves to have its budget cut
The arts cuts have arrived. The biggest loser is English National Opera whose annual award of £12.6 million will be…
Serbia’s membership talks should embarrass the EU
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz looked on with uneasy pride as leaders from…
Britain needs to take back control of its borders
Britain has lost control of its borders. Over the last four years, the number of asylum-seekers and illegal migrants who…
Is Russia preparing to surrender Kherson?
Will they stay or will they go? The southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has become the current focus of the…
Arts Council England and the war on opera
Instructed by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport to move money away from London and reassign it to…
Why are excess deaths higher now than during Covid?
More people are dying every week than during Covid’s peak years. Last month there were 1,564 more deaths than average…
How the Albanian mafia corrupted Europe
In May 2000 a French newspaper published an article which declared that ‘The Albanian mafia is corrupting Europe’. Le Parisien reported on…
It’s the parallel economy, stupid!
There’s a lot of rumbling about American polarization these days. Sometimes it takes the form of people advocating for a…
How Democrats’ open border policies alienated Hispanics
Remember the outrage when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis sent 50 Venezuelan asylum seekers to Martha’s Vineyard? Apparently Florida Hispanics, many…
The Pelosi/McCarthy feud at the heart of the midterms
Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t like Nancy Pelosi. In this, he’s hardly alone — the list of those…
Is now the time to make peace in Ukraine?
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, British press and public opinion has been firmly behind Volodymyr Zelensky. But is…
Could Gretchen Whitmer lose in Michigan?
The gubernatorial showdown in Michigan has quickly become one of the most exciting races heading into the 2020 midterm elections.…
Xi’s nuclear warnings are a coup for Scholz
Checks and balances on Vladimir Putin don’t come from inside Russia. The people around him supported forced mobilisation, pushed his…
All change at CCHQ
The winds of change are blowing through the corridors of 4 Matthew Parker Street. Having turfed team Truss out of…
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are growing faster than ever
While some people start the day with a bowl of cereal, North Korea chose to greet Thursday with the launch…
Meet Israel’s 21-year-old TikTok firebrand
Hadar Muchtar is angry because Benjamin Netanyahu has won a sixth term as prime minister of Israel and she hasn’t…
Sources: Trump 2024 is staffing up — names revealed
Sources: Trump 2024 team forming After Axios’s report that Trump is set to announce a 2024 run on November 14…
Germany needs to break its dependence on China
Back in February, Olaf Scholz gave one of the most important speeches in his country’s post-Cold War history. In it, the German…
Don’t condemn the Church of England for its stance on gay marriage
The Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, has come out in favour of gay marriage – the first senior bishop to…
Brexit isn’t to blame for the economic collapse
We can be grateful for small mercies. 4 November 2022 will go down as the day when a presenter on…
Poll: voters hope Matt Hancock loses in the jungle
The new series of I’m a Celebrity airs on Sunday and the producers have done a decent job of making…
Why Albanians come to Britain
A friend of mine works in a surgery in London where lots of asylum seekers go for treatment. The caseload…
Who tried to assassinate Imran Khan? And why?
At the end of August I warned in The Spectator that, in Pakistan politics, ‘death by assassination is always a…
The Online Harms Bill still threatens free speech and privacy
The Online Safety Bill became a lightning rod for criticism during the Conservative party leadership contest over the summer. A…
Why interest rates are still lower than you might think
Anyone with a mortgage will be in serious trouble. Small businesses will go to the wall. Demand will be hammered.…
