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Meghan’s online shop is a new low for team Sussex

25 March 2025 6:07 pm

Earlier this week, I tried and failed to purchase a couple of items from the As Ever range that the…

Why is Australia reburying ancient human remains?

25 March 2025 6:00 pm

As I write, hundreds of ancient human remains are secretly being buried in a remote desert 1,000km from Sydney (New…

Democrats should be concerned by the Le Pen affair

25 March 2025 5:00 pm

Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner for the 2027 French presidency, could be sent to prison and banned from office as…

The landmine ban is handicapping Britain

25 March 2025 4:55 pm

There are few better symbols of Europe’s military fecklessness during the brief era of relative peace that followed the end…

Prison bureaucracy is making inmates’ lives needlessly hard

25 March 2025 4:41 pm

Everyone knows that Britain’s jails are filthy, failing and dangerous. But there’s another less obvious problem with our prisons: those…

Stormzy isn’t cool

25 March 2025 4:02 pm

Stormzy has finally completed the journey from super-cool to super-cringe. The rapper, once the symbol of youthful rebellion, is to…

Ex-Media Matters influencer runs for Congress

25 March 2025 6:38 am

Ex-Media Matters influencer Kat Abughazaleh announced a run for the US Congress today, telling Democrats, “It’s time to drop the…

What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed

25 March 2025 6:21 am

Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response. It defies…

Adolescence demonises white working-class boys

25 March 2025 6:04 am

This is an extract from today’s episode of Spectator TV, with Toby Young and James Walton, which you can find…

The ‘government by groupchat’ scandal should cost Mike Waltz his job

25 March 2025 5:35 am

Blimey! Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg has written a fresh exposé that should result in the immediate resignation or firing of…

Is Trump’s tariff zeal beginning to wane?

25 March 2025 4:46 am

The President can’t stop talking about his favorite word – tariffs – although this week his comments are having a…

Is the Trump Slump over?

25 March 2025 3:58 am

Tariffs would destroy supply chains and drive up inflation. Elon Musk’s savage cuts would bring the government machine grinding to…

Who will stand up for Jews today?

25 March 2025 3:29 am

Awoken by sirens wailing over large parts of central Israel last weekend, I pulled on whatever clothes I could find beside…

The polished edges of Colorado’s ski resorts

25 March 2025 3:20 am

“Arnold Schwarzenegger was sitting exactly where you are,” the boot fitter said, as he handed me K2 Anthems at Aspen…

Who do Brits blame for UK financial decisions?

25 March 2025 2:59 am

Tick tock. There are less than 48 hours to go until Rachel Reeves’s big Spring Statement on Wednesday and as…

Does Tim Walz think we still want to hear from him?

25 March 2025 2:43 am

If you thought an embarrassing loss in November would result in Tim Walz taking a hint, you thought wrong. The Democratic…

South Korea is more polarised than ever

25 March 2025 1:56 am

This past week, eagle-eyed observers of South Korean politics – not to mention the South Korean public – were supposed…

When will Britain crack down on the Al Quds hate march?

25 March 2025 1:52 am

There are moments in the life of a democracy when ambiguity becomes complicity. On Sunday, in the heart of London,…

Scots feel safer as part of UK in blow to SNP

25 March 2025 1:51 am

It’s a day ending in ‘y’ which means there’s more bad news for the Scottish Nats. Now new polling for…

What Lord Frost gets wrong about the Tories’ future

25 March 2025 1:13 am

It hardly feels like a serious discussion of the Conservative party’s future until Lord Frost has indicated where the leadership…

Trump can hit Putin where it hurts – if he wants to

24 March 2025 11:53 pm

Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate a quick end to the war in Ukraine have run into trouble. As US negotiators…

Are climate scientists qualified to judge net zero?

24 March 2025 11:39 pm

Kemi Badenoch’s announcement that the Conservatives are no longer committed to the net zero target in 2050 represents a massive…

Is Rachel Reeves brave enough to slash the civil service?

24 March 2025 11:00 pm

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is seeking to trim £2 billion from the government’s £13 billion administration budget, with up to 50,000…

Will Labour back ECHR withdrawal?

24 March 2025 9:40 pm

Amidst the U-turns, if there is one thing on which Labour has remained almost rock-solid until now, it is human…

The flaw in Labour’s plan to fix potholes

24 March 2025 9:39 pm

Ahead of last summer’s election, the Labour party made lots of grand promises about how it was going to fix…