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Brighton shows why you shouldn’t vote Labour
I surely wasn’t the only citizen of Brighton and Hove who breathed a sigh of relief when the Green council…
Why is the UN sticking up for Just Stop Oil protestors?
Do you remember when you couldn’t get your child to school on time because of a Just Stop Oil slow…
The danger of returning the Ghanaian ‘Crown Jewels’
I put the case in last week’s Spectator that museums in this country have been gripped by a sort of…
How Chuck Schumer is interfering in the Montana GOP Senate primary
Every two years, Chuck Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC and its allies come up with cunning ways to get Democrats over…
The SNP’s Covid reckoning
We now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish government ministers were as prone to offensive language as…
What the UN court’s genocide verdict means for Israel
The International Court of Justice has handed down a preliminary ruling instructing Israel to prevent a genocide from happening in…
Watch: Angela Rayner heckled by Palestine activists
It looks like the ructions over Labour’s Palestine position aren’t ending anytime soon. Since the horrifying Hamas massacre on October…
Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution is indefensible
Let’s park for a moment the morality of the death penalty. You know what you think. It’s one of those…
Jurgen Klopp’s departure is a disaster for Liverpool
The news that the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is to quit his job at the end of the season is…
Why is Britain acting like a mini-EU?
The collapse of talks to renew a trade deal between Britain and Canada is a reminder that there is nothing…
Putin’s Kaliningrad visit wasn’t a threat to Nato
President visits part of his own country. Shock. Vladimir Putin’s visit yesterday to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, perched precariously…
Israel shows why conscription works
Take a step back and it’s a no-brainer: If you want a healthy society, you need a spirit of unity.…
European voters are rebelling against the elites
A friend of mine intends to vote for the National Rally in June’s European Elections. That in itself is nothing…
Andrew Neil: it would be absurd for the UAE to own The Spectator
Last night The Spectator’s chairman, Andrew Neil, spoke for the first time about the sale of this magazine and the…
The great shame of Australia Day
Captain James Cook has fallen. Not on the shore of Hawaii’s Kealakekua Bay on Valentine’s Day 1779, but in the…
Can Javier Milei win his fight against Argentina’s strikers?
An alliance with the trade union movements helped catapult Juan Peron, the icon of Argentine politics, to the presidency in…
Why are doctors being threatened for reporting late-term abortions?
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) this week threatened to use punitive measures against doctors who report late-term abortions…
NHS consultants have created another headache for the Tories
The government has just lost one of its bargaining chips in the long-running junior doctors’ strikes: hospital consultants have narrowly…
The Covid Inquiry is finally hearing some enlightening evidence
The Scottish leg of the Covid-19 inquiry has, like the hearings in London, become bogged down in matters such as…
Why Sunak’s critics won’t stop plotting
Simon Clarke’s call this week for Rishi Sunak to go didn’t exactly inspire others to follow. Instead, it’s had a…
Sturgeon’s foul-mouthed Boris-bashing revealed
If there’s one thing that both Covid Inquiries have reliably provided, it’s expletives. Use of foul-mouthed language was popular among…
Barbie’s Oscars snub isn’t sexist
Not for the first time, Hillary Clinton is outraged. Reacting to the news that Barbie star, Margot Robbie, and the…
Airstrikes won’t stop the Houthis’ Red Sea attacks
It was less than two weeks ago that the US and UK introduced a new element to the multi-faceted conflict…
The hubris of Harry and Meghan’s Jamaican photoshoot
What is it like to be Prince Harry? Spare gave us a peerless insight into the unhappy, loveless life of…
Is Saudi Arabia softening its booze ban?
Saudi Arabia, an Islamic nation where drinking alcohol is strictly forbidden, is to get its first official liquor store. There’s…
