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Rachel Reeves can’t ‘regulate for growth’
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are under pressure to reduce red tape in the…
Will Labour MPs back Rachel Reeves’s growth plan?
It’s ‘growth week’ in government, as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves attempts to convince sceptical business leaders, bankers and voters that…
Is the UK prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?
One million people will migrate to the UK every year this decade. The result: the UK population will grow by…
How DeepSeek can help Britain
Sometimes a new technology comes along that immediately shakes the world. The release this week of the new Chinese artificial…
Home Office: ‘two-tier’ police claims are an ‘extreme right-wing’ narrative
You can tell a government report has gone down badly when ministers are distancing themselves before it has been officially…
Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%
It is easy enough to trace the point at which local authorities embarked on the sad, downwards journey which has…
Will Rachel Reeves walk the walk on going for growth?
On the face of it, the Chancellor’s big growth speech tomorrow could be one of this government’s most significant interventions…
The hypocrisy of Ed Miliband’s vanity photographer
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, comes across as something of a political nerd, determined to bankrupt the country with his…
Kim Leadbeater U-turns once again
Another week and another U-turn on Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill. The 23-man committee scrutinising the legislation is supposed to…
DeepSeek has brought China’s ‘Sputnik moment’
In the years since ChatGPT’s debut, the world of artificial intelligence development has been defined by a single obsession: scale.…
Syria feels close to a zone of anarchy
Travelling from Syria’s Highway 42, which runs from Tabqa to the city of Homs, you can see the corpse of…
Pensioners have never had it so good
British pensioners are wealthier than ever. New figures from the Office for National Statistics, analysed by The Spectator’s data hub, show pensioner…
The triumph of Otto Schenk
A long life well spent doing what we love is more than most of us can hope to get anywhere…
Farage must be prepared to pack the Lords
One thing that is absolutely vital for Reform UK to do before the next election is to write a comprehensive…
How to outsmart DeepSeek
For nearly a decade, the Chinese Communist Party has censored Winnie the Pooh, owing to internet memes comparing the slightly…
Ministers are clearly concerned about school reform row
You could tell from this afternoon’s Education Questions in the Commons that ministers are worried about the row over their…
Full list: Labour MPs who opposed Heathrow expansion
There are just two days to go until Rachel Reeves’ big growth speech. The Chancellor is expected to turn her…
Has DeepSeek popped the AI bubble?
The arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Canada in 2018, and the ensuing United States ban on…
Will Chinese AI get the Treasury off the hook?
The launch of the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek has caused turmoil in the markets. The release of China’s newest AI –…
Navy rebrands HMS Agincourt to appease French
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Trump might be back in the White House but here in…
There is no justice in the Gaza hostage deal
Imagine waking up to the news that Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, the brutal killers of British soldier Lee Rigby,…
What I learnt from playing with China’s new AI
I asked a question about the Uyghurs, and China’s new ChatGPT-competitor, DeepSeek, started to answer. In two rapidly written paragraphs,…
Diplomacy alone won’t stop Rwanda stoking war in Congo
Goma, a city of 1.5 million in Eastern Congo, has fallen to the M23 rebels, openly backed by Rwanda. Foreign…
Has China pulled ahead in the race for AI supremacy?
The race for ‘AI supremacy’ is over, at least for now, and the US didn’t win. Over the last few…
Tory Nimbys are walking into Starmer’s trap
The government has yet to formally announce its widely trailed decision to expand Gatwick, Heathrow, and Luton airports. But that…
