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Michal Caine turns on Labour’s taxes
Taxes, thousands of ’em! In her bid to alienate the bulk of the British electorate, it seems that Rachel Reeves…
Kemi Badenoch isn’t the ‘black face’ of ‘white supremacy’
We need to talk about Dawn Butler. Following the election of the first ever black leader of a major party…
What will Robert Jenrick do next?
Poor old Robert Jenrick. He has spent eleven gruelling months touring associations, existing on a diet of Ozempic and rubber-chicken,…
Will Dawn Butler lose the whip?
With his super-majority in the Commons, Keir Starmer isn’t afraid of losing the odd MP or two. Back in July…
Is America ready for its first DEI president?
Nobody ever talks about this anymore, but there was a time when Democrats were floating Kamala Harris as a potential…
Is King Charles’s honeymoon over?
Since King Charles became monarch in September 2022, after the death of Elizabeth II, he has received reasonably warm treatment…
Partygate was overblown, says Kemi in first interviews as leader
Rachel Reeves: ‘I was wrong’ to say no major tax rises would be needed In her first big interviews since…
Rachel Reeves’s new gamble
Credit to Rachel Reeves: while some chancellors opt to take part in the Sunday shows ahead of a fiscal event,…
Will China tell North Korea to pull out of Ukraine?
Throughout the Russian invasion, China has, for the most part, refused to be drawn into the conflict. It has not…
What Gen Z need to know about the 1990s
‘Nothing,’ said Vladimir Nabokov, ‘revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it’. If smell…
It’s rich of the French to call Trump ‘vulgar’
There has always been a touch of snobbery in the way the French elite regard American politics. The word one…
Why Kemi was the right choice
A version of this article was originally published in last week’s issue of The Spectator. What set Margaret Thatcher apart…
How Kemi Badenoch’s Tories can rebuild Britain
The Conservatives finally have a new leader. But Kemi Badenoch must be under no illusions: after the disastrous July election,…
Labour’s embarrassing Badenoch blunder
So Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the opposition. How best should Labour respond? One person who has shown…
My unsolicited advice to Kemi Badenoch
If there are two things new leaders of political parties dread, it’s unsolicited advice and Scotland. The advice because, even…
Badenoch must explain why the Tories deserve power
Kemi Badenoch’s victory was not overwhelming. Her margin of victory was smaller than of any of her Tory predecessors since…
Has the Trump campaign stalled?
The ‘Trumpmentum’ of the last few weeks couldn’t last forever. Now, with less than four days to go until election…
Revealed: Tory membership falls by almost a quarter in two years
Will the last person to leave the Tory party please turn out the lights? After an exodus of Conservative MPs…
What Kemi Badenoch’s victory means for the Conservatives
The results of the Conservative leadership contest are in. Almost four months after the Tory party suffered its worst general…
Kemi Badenoch will face an exposed Keir Starmer
Kemi Badenoch could probably already have served a truncated term as prime minister had she made different choices. Back at…
Truss blasts ‘dishonest’ Sunak on his last day
Happy Tory leadership results day! Much like teenagers collecting their A-levels, there will be plenty of tears, cheers and multiple…
Can Republicans be trusted with the US economy?
When it comes to the economy, Americans typically trust the Republicans. They’re the party traditionally aligned with big capital; and…
Does Qatar still hold the key to a Hamas hostage deal?
Qatar is the Middle East’s mediator-in-chief. The assassination of Hamas’s senior leadership and Gaza War’s regionalisation to Lebanon have not…
History has been cruel to Wallis Simpson
If there is one thing that Paul French’s forthcoming book Her Lotus Year should put right about Wallis Simpson, the…
Biden scores another ‘own goal’ over Trump’s ‘garbage’ supporters
The latest wisdom from our tottering, angry president was to call Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage.” He was responding to the…
