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Serena Williams no longer belongs at Wimbledon
Serena Williams is arguably the greatest female tennis player of all time – a seven-time Wimbledon champion and winner of an…
Sunday shows round-up: should Labour call an early election?
Steve Reed: ‘The public do not want a general election’ At the start of this week, Keir Starmer announced that…
The real significance of the Israel-Lebanon agreement
Even before the ink on the agreement between Israel and Lebanon was dry, its opponents began trying to destroy it.…
The social contract is fundamentally broken
As the eyes of the nation flit between the dramas of Westminster, Wigan and the World Cup, there is no…
Andy Burnham’s reality TV show rise
I knew that the endless hours I’d spent watching reality TV would one day stand me in good stead in…
Labour’s latest immigration plan is pure insanity
Last week, almost a thousand more illegal migrants entered the country via small boats. Over 204,000 have arrived since 2018.…
Is Britain doomed?
In the wake of Keir Starmer’s resignation much has been made of the fact that in the past decade we…
Farage and Kemi’s pitch for conservative hearts and minds
At the entrance to the hangar-like Olympia conference centre is a huge, framed drawing, showing a design for an imagined…
Is the US-Israel special relationship over?
Until recently, the Israeli right regarded US President Donald Trump as its greatest ally. He was often described in quasi-religious…
It turns out being a hunter-gatherer wasn’t so great after all
The science writer Jared Diamond once called agriculture ‘the worst mistake in the history of the human race’. Yuval Noah…
Is Trump’s quest for peace doomed?
J.D. Vance jokingly compared himself to Richard Nixon earlier this week. ‘Young senator, vice-president, writes some bestselling books, is hated…
Venezuela’s earthquake is the cruelest blow
Venezuela thought its luck was changing. Then the earthquakes stuck. For a country that’s economy has long been in tatters,…
Is Burnham brave enough to scrap the triple lock?
Loss avoidance is one of the strongest forces in the world. It’s a fundamental of human nature – and therefore…
Six ways the BBC could save money
I’m unlikely to be invited to dinner at BBC director general Matt Brittin’s any time soon but judging by the…
What Burnham can learn from the Baldwin trap
Of Britain’s 58 prime ministers to date, 31 have been graduates of Oxford University and 14 from Cambridge. But putative…
Why Britain has a medicine shortage
Across Britain today, people will take prescriptions to pharmacies and be told they can’t be fulfilled. After hearing a lifetime…
Five things I’m hearing about the Burnham ascendancy
We are at the phony war/silly season stage of the Andy Burnham ascendancy and there’s a lot of nonsense flying…
Parliament has become dangerously mawkish
Parliament always has an otherworldly feel; it’s a world of gothic crenelations, of specialised language, of deliberate artifice. But something…
Revealed: The Green Party proposal for menstrual leave
The Green Party is considering giving ‘all workers who menstruate’ an additional 36 days’ paid leave a year, The Spectator…
Who can save America’s 250th birthday?
“They’re taking that down,” says Keith Krach when I ask if the White House’s UFC stage will still be up…
South Africa now has its answer to ICE
A force of 10,000 inspectors is being recruited to weed out foreigners: door-to-door across the nation, they will check mines,…
Will Bibi go into exile?
In January 2027, Benjamin Netanyahu could leave office for the final time. In the middle of a corruption trial at…
Is King Charles really being open about his finances?
When it was announced that King Charles was going to become the first monarch in history to release details of…
Tapped out of government
Labour’s never-ending psychodrama took yet another magnificent twist today. It looks as if Sir Keir Starmer won’t be alone in…
Andy Burnham is not the messiah
Labour’s almost messianic embrace of Andy Burnham, the near-crazed glint in the eyes of the party’s backbenchers when they whisper…
