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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…
How can one third of people end up dying in pain?
Recent research funded by the charity Marie Curie has discovered that each year in England around 170,000 people are suffering…
Chagossians storm their islands
The Chagos deal is set to return to the House of Lords after recess. But a group of islanders are…
The Tories aren’t dead yet
In 1997 the doyen of Democrat political columnists in the US, E.J. Dionne, published They Only Look Dead. He argued…
Why unemployment is at a five-year high
Britain’s jobs market continues to struggle. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show that the…
Do Labour MPs even know what a leader looks like anymore?
Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being.…
We need a way to punish architects
I’ve got a new thriller out this week, under my pen name of S.K. Tremayne. I am pleased with the…
Robert Duvall was one of the Hollywood greats
The death of the actor Robert Duvall at the age of 95 – almost exactly a year after that of…
Don’t blame the ECHR for the migrant phone debacle
Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020…
The British Museum is right to change ‘Palestine’ to ‘Canaan’
What’s in a name? Quite a bit if you’re the British Museum and the P-word is involved: ‘Palestine’. Pro-Palestinian activists are outraged…
Starmer’s local election rebuff benefits Reform
The parliamentary recess ought to buy Keir Starmer a bit of much-needed breathing space. But the Prime Minister has suffered…
I burnt a Quran. Now I may have to flee Britain
My name is Hamit Coskun and last year I was convicted in a British court of religiously aggravated public order…
Is it time to scrub Andrew from the line of succession?
The sheer weight of allegations against Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – all tawdry, all sordid – runs the risk of creating not so much…
Rejoining the EU single market won’t boost Britain’s growth
In his speech in Munich on Saturday, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, made it very clear that he was…
Don’t blame AI for this jobs bloodbath
No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with…
Hamas is inching towards another war
Perhaps the biggest talent of humanity is our gift to adapt to challenging circumstances with creativity and ingenuity. It may…
How can measles have broken out in London?
Last month the World Health Organisation removed Britain from its list of countries where measles had been effectively eliminated. The…
Ireland had no right to name agent Stakeknife
Micheál Martin, now in his second stint as Ireland’s Taoiseach, is by our standards a political veteran, having led Fianna…
Rupert Lowe launches his own party
You wait years for a right-wing party – and then a veritable fleet comes along at once. After Advance UK,…
