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Watch: Attorney General refuses to comment on Gerry Adams links
The Labour government is generating its fair share of negative headlines these days – and now the focus is on…
Keir can thank God for Kemi
Robots will never replace Sir Keir Starmer. No need. Silicon Valley is already using him as the template for an…
You should feel disappointed if you don’t get into Oxbridge
When I was at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the early 1990s, I’d often read ‘Bogsheets’ in the loos by the…
Ireland’s President has gone completely rogue
As Ireland’s octogenarian President, Michael D Higgins, enters the last few months of his final term in office, a man who was always outspoken in…
Starmer saved his favourite attack until the end at PMQs
Kemi Badenoch continued with her theme of ‘why can you trust anything the Prime Minister says’ at Prime Minister’s Questions…
President Yoon’s arrest brings more turmoil to South Korea
This year has commenced in an historic fashion for South Korea – albeit for all the wrong reasons. Earlier today,…
New York Times: Dry January is racist
For a moment, it almost seemed like there was an outbreak of sense at the New York Times, with a column…
Scottish Labour face an uphill battle, poll suggests
All is not well in the Labour party. While Sir Keir Starmer’s government fends off questions about the state of…
The triumph and tragedy of Tony Slattery
Tony Slattery was outrageously funny. And he was funny because he was outrageous. The actor and comedian, who died yesterday…
The quiet bravery of Kate Middleton
It may only be halfway through January, but the two opposed branches of the younger royal family have both made…
Why did Keir Starmer handle the Tulip Siddiq furore so badly?
When the anti-corruption minister is accused of corruption by a foreign government and has no prospect of being able to…
Tories overtake Labour despite Badenoch’s ratings falling fast
Uh oh. Labour’s first six months in government haven’t gone quite as swimmingly as Sir Keir Starmer might have hoped…
How to stop Gerry Adams’s taxpayer-funded pay day
The government’s fealty to human rights law is not in doubt. Still, one might have hoped that the human rights lawyers…
It would be a huge mistake for Labour to dam the beavers
The Guardian is reporting that No. 10 is set to delay plans to release beavers into the wild, potentially because it is…
The day I was heckled for speaking about the rape gangs
It’s odd being lionised for something you did so long ago you’d almost forgotten you were there. But this is…
The arrest of South Korea’s president won’t end this saga
South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol has been arrested after police officers scaled fences and cut through barbed wire to detain…
Inflation dip marks a welcome surprise for Rachel Reeves
Rachel Reeves has found brief respite this morning, with the Office for National Statistics confirming that inflation dipped to 2.5…
The ‘self-cancellation’ trend taking over the literary world
The phenomena that has blighted the live literature world over the last ten years could be classed as a ‘stooshie’…
How much longer will Starmer back Reeves?
It’s not been a happy new year for Sir Keir Starmer. The Prime Minister’s Treasury minister Tulip Siddiq has been…
When did the A&E winter crisis become the norm?
Not a winter goes past without hospitals overflowing; the situation is so predictable it deserves a better word than ‘crisis’.…
Starbucks and the hell of the modern café
Starbucks has announced that it is reversing its rule that allowed people to hang round in cafés in the United…
It’s no surprise that democracy is losing its appeal
The Guardian reports that one in five voters under the age of 45 would prefer to do away with democracy…
Hegseth in the hornet’s nest
Pete Hegseth was the first cabinet nominee to the breach, leading Donald Trump’s collection of outsiders, populists and hellraisers into…
Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing is just the first episode
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, military veteran and former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, had his first…
Reform overtake Tories on Spectator poll tracker
The new year is off to a bad start for Kemi Badenoch’s Tories. The latest update to The Spectator data…
