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James Dyson isn’t helping farmers
If I were president of the National Farmers’ Union I know what my first task would be today: ring up…
Watch: Home Secretary flounders over small boats
Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot are desperate to get the press and public talking about anything but the Budget this…
Can Starmer stop the small boats?
It’s small boats week in government. Following last Wednesday’s Budget, No. 10 is turning its attention to the ceaseless flow…
Is Kemi Badenoch the new Mrs Thatcher?
Prior to her election as Conservative Leader at the weekend, Kemi Badenoch was, on numerous occasions, compared to Margaret Thatcher.…
Do we care that the King is rich?
For the first time, the true extent of the property held by the King and the Prince of Wales’s private…
Southport suspect: A timeline of what was said and when
Three months after the Southport attack in July, suspect Axel Rudakubana was this week charged with two new fresh offences.…
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…
