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Is any Labour MP brave enough to admit the truth about Andy Burnham?
There’s been much comment on the appointment of James Purnell as Andy Burnham’s chief of staff. Along with the widely…
Why gays turned against Pride
The annual Pride parades celebrated across the globe are not the events they used to be. First held in New…
Germany is quietly falling apart
In Germany, the trains have stopped running on time, bridges have been shut over safety fears, and the country’s largest…
The EES border check debacle is the EU at its worst
Among my many unpopular and unpatriotic opinions is that, in most of the ways that matter, the terrorists responsible for…
What the sorry state of Hammersmith Bridge says about Britain
One could be forgiven for thinking that the extensive coverage given to the fiasco surrounding Hammersmith Bridge is typical of…
The tragedy of Cristiano Ronaldo
At 41 years old, Cristiano Ronaldo is a shadow of the once brilliant player he was. Everyone can see it,…
Is decriminalising rough sleeping a mistake?
The government’s decision to decriminalise rough sleeping by repealing the Vagrancy Act of 1824 has been met with outrage and wringing…
Trump brings the thunder for America’s 250th birthday
Who ever let a spot of rain get in the way of a good time? Donald Trump’s July 4 festivities…
Sunday shows round-up: Jenrick on Farage allegations: ‘Nothing to see here’
Nigel Farage did not declare financial benefits provided to him by his long-standing supporter George Cottrell in the year before…
The truth about Mexico’s record at the Azteca stadium
England fans have been scarred by the Azteca stadium in the past. High on the Mexican plateau, the giant concrete…
The trouble with Andy Burnham’s water nationalisation plan
There is something poignant about Andy Burnham’s campaign for water nationalisation. In a previous life, the ‘King of the North’…
What should Paris do about Hamza?
Armed with his water gun and foul language, a truculent 14-year-old Arab boy called Hamza has become the unexpected sideshow…
Burnham is more like Boris than you think
As a good Labour man, I’m sure Andy Burnham will have read his Marx (even if he is by no…
Only bad parents will let their kids skip school to watch the England game
Is Thomas Tuchel a secret agent sent by Friedrich Merz’s government to ruin the UK economy and education system so…
In defence of Masha and the Bear
Thank heavens that everything in the UK is going so well, that more than 50 MPs have so little to…
Whitehall isn’t taking tech seriously
Britain will become “the fastest adopter of AI in the G7” the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, proudly told us last month.…
Is Britain too hot for our pet dogs?
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but venturing out at that hour during a heatwave…
Goat is tasty. But don’t force it on me
‘Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,’ John Godfrey Saxe warned…
Why Britain doesn’t need China
Andrew Sabisky is a self-described superforecaster. As one of Philip Tetlock’s devotees he claims to have an elite sensitivity to…
The case against al fresco dining
Late in 2020, under semi-lockdown conditions, I viewed an empty flat in the Seven Dials enclave of Covent Garden, a…
Trump’s America is losing its mojo
The heat is on. The R&B group Kool and the Gang may be co-headlining the historic “A Capitol Fourth 250th…
Would Oxford still open its doors to a poor, white boy like me?
Magdalen College, Oxford, is over-represented at The Spectator. Not long ago, Paul Johnson and Matthew d’Ancona were fixtures here. Today, there…
Iran wants Khamenei’s funeral to send a warning to its enemies
The week-long funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader who was killed in a US-Israeli military strikes…
How Britain reacted to the Declaration of Independence
The 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence comes at a moment when Anglo-American relations are buffeted by competing visions…
Trump has exposed the limits of American power
Donald Trump’s quest for regime change in Iran has backfired horribly. The president misunderstood the resilience of the 47-year-old Islamic…
