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Museums like the V&A shouldn’t be allowed to return ‘looted’ treasures

9 July 2025 3:47 pm

Henry Cole, the first director of what would become the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), could never have imagined that…

Emmanuel Macron would love to be King

9 July 2025 6:14 am

When Japan’s Crown Prince Naruhito visited Windsor Castle in the early years of the 21st century, the Queen Mother gave…

The last bullfighters

9 July 2025 5:30 am

In May of last year, at the Saturday corrida of the Feria de Pentecôte in Nîmes – “no hay billetes”…

Has Trump given up on tariff deadlines?

9 July 2025 4:55 am

“TARIFFS WILL START BEING PAID ON AUGUST 1, 2025,” Donald Trump shared on Truth Social this morning. “There will be…

Superman takes on the media

9 July 2025 4:14 am

Before Superman has to fight with kaiju, robots, metahumans and whatever other nonsense Lex Luthor throws at him, he first…

Is this the end of the Jeffrey Epstein case?

9 July 2025 3:28 am

The death of the financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at Manhattan’s notorious Metropolitan Correction Center has been ruled to be…

Remembering Jonathan Miller

9 July 2025 2:02 am

The long-time Spectator contributor Jonathan Miller has died. James Tidmarsh remembers him here: Jonathan Miller liked to say that Emmanuel…

Will anyone be held to account for the Post Office scandal?

9 July 2025 1:03 am

More than 13 people may have taken their own lives as a result of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal.…

Labour owes it to special needs children to reform SEND

9 July 2025 1:03 am

They say that history repeats itself, but the Labour party won’t be expecting it to happen quite so quickly. Last…

Why aren’t the stock markets spooked by Trump’s new tariffs?

8 July 2025 11:36 pm

As President Trump unveiled his latest round of tariffs last night, investors barely paid any attention. The stock markets barely…

Reform MP to sit as an independent

8 July 2025 11:29 pm

Oh dear. It appears that after the Sunday Times story last weekend, there is no way back for James McMurdock.…

Can Starmer convince the French to finally sign a migrant deal?

8 July 2025 11:19 pm

Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hits town today. It’s Macron’s first state visit to the UK and the first by…

Wales is looking ripe for a Reform surge

8 July 2025 10:28 pm

There are two pieces of news out this morning which offer a fillip to Reform’s hopes of topping the Cardiff…

Why Putin’s elites keep dying

8 July 2025 9:34 pm

Although I suspect few readers’ hearts will bleed for them, it’s been a bad week for Russian elites. There has…

How The Salt Path bewitched a nation

8 July 2025 9:07 pm

Like millions of others, I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Salt Path, an account of how a penniless and homeless middle-aged couple…

Japan is running out of time to save itself from Trump’s tariffs

8 July 2025 8:58 pm

‘This is a serious situation for Japan’. That was the verdict of the business editor on NHK’s morning news programme…

Norman Tebbit was a proper politician

8 July 2025 8:58 pm

Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the dominant political figures of my youth.…

Britain is heading for economic catastrophe

8 July 2025 8:45 pm

Britain is in trouble. That’s the judgement of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) in their ‘fiscal risks and sustainability’…

There’ll never be another Norman Tebbit

8 July 2025 8:40 pm

The death of Norman Tebbit at the great age of 94 marks a real ending of an era. They simply…

Norman Tebbit: Thatcherite icon

8 July 2025 7:38 pm

Norman Tebbit, the longtime keeper of the Thatcherite flame, has died at the age of 94. His career in public…

Elon Musk’s America party could hurt Republicans

8 July 2025 7:00 pm

Elon Musk has set up a third party and pledged to contest next year’s midterms. But to find a third…

The Dubai influencer craze can’t end quick enough

8 July 2025 6:58 pm

Marcus Fakana, a British 18 year old, has been in prison in the United Arab Emirates since December. His crime?…

Is Labour prepared to alienate SEND parents?

8 July 2025 5:22 pm

Welcome to the Isle of Sheppey, a stretch of pebbled beaches and caravan parks that regularly stars in the ONS’s…

Organised crime has conquered Britain’s prisons

8 July 2025 4:28 pm

Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has published his first annual report since Labour took office. It will make…

Europe must prepare to support Ukraine without America

8 July 2025 4:10 pm

It is unquestionably the case that people who should have known better were blinded by the Capri-Sun King’s glare when…