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Will Chinese AI get the Treasury off the hook?
The launch of the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek has caused turmoil in the markets. The release of China’s newest AI –…
Navy rebrands HMS Agincourt to appease French
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Trump might be back in the White House but here in…
There is no justice in the Gaza hostage deal
Imagine waking up to the news that Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the brutal killers of British soldier Lee Rigby,…
What I learnt from playing with China’s new AI
I asked a question about the Uyghurs, and China’s new ChatGPT-competitor, DeepSeek, started to answer. In two rapidly written paragraphs,…
Diplomacy alone won’t stop Rwanda stoking war in Congo
Goma, a city of 1.5 million in Eastern Congo, has fallen to the M23 rebels, openly backed by Rwanda. Foreign…
Has China pulled ahead in the race for AI supremacy?
The race for ‘AI supremacy’ is over, at least for now, and the US didn’t win. Over the last few…
Tory Nimbys are walking into Starmer’s trap
The government has yet to formally announce its widely trailed decision to expand Gatwick, Heathrow, and Luton airports. But that…
Europe has no idea how to stop the spread of Islamism
Last week was surely one of the grimmest in Europe in years. The day after an Afghan migrant allegedly stabbed…
Starmer’s foreign policy doctrine revealed
It is sometimes claimed that Mark Darcy in the Bridget Jones’ Diary series is based on Keir Starmer. One is…
Starmer has much to learn from Trump’s Colombia migrant victory
During Sir Keir Starmer’s first phone call with Donald Trump since the President’s inauguration, the two leaders discussed the ceasefire…
Britain is on track for a ‘Reeves recession’
Business confidence is falling. Companies are warning that profits will be lower than expected, and they are already planning to…
Is Donald Trump warming to Keir Starmer?
Does Keir Starmer finally have cause for optimism over Donald Trump? It did not go unnoticed that the only Labour…
We need to reclaim the word ‘Nazi’
You can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to traffic wardens. Those of a mellow, reflective bent…
How to fix Holocaust education
Is Holocaust education letting today’s anti-Jewish racism off the hook? When it became compulsory in 1991, Britain was largely in remission from…
Heathrow’s third runway won’t improve London’s air quality
Is Rachel Reeves really correct that her new-found enthusiasm for a third runway at Heathrow would be consistent with the…
Don’t get your hopes up for a WH Smith revival
The news that the high street arm of the newsagent WH Smith is in ‘secret talks’ to be sold –…
Scrapping Oxford’s ‘traditional’ exams won’t make things fairer
Are exams… racist? Are exams snobs? If a report in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph is to be credited, academics at Oxford…
Keir Starmer can’t afford not to hike defence spending
Over the last few years, defence spending has been higher up the political agenda than at any time since the…
Britain’s railway arches are getting hollowed out
Railway arches are functional. If you want to keep a railway bridge horizontal, you’re going to need arches. Once, Network…
Why the SNP should form a pact with Labour
Last year, marking the tenth anniversary of Scotland’s independence referendum, I wrote an article for The Spectator looking at the state of…
The Davos I knew is over
Has the merry-go-round of the global elite summit – epitomised by the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, which concluded…
Holocaust Remembrance Day isn’t enough
As Holocaust Remembrance Day comes round again, actual remembrance of the Holocaust seems fainter than ever. The arson attacks on…
Why won’t Britain take the Covid lab leak theory seriously?
The CIA report concluding that Covid most likely originated from a laboratory leak of a man-made, or man-enhanced, virus raises…
The dumbing down of Oxbridge
For years now, higher education has been convulsed by a never-ending hunt for racism. A certain type of academic or…
Badenoch blames lack of ‘integration’ following Southport conviction
Rachel Reeves heavily hints at third Heathrow runway As part of her upcoming speech on economic growth, Rachel Reeves is…
