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Pedro Sánchez is stubbornly clinging on to power
With Spain still reeling from the extraordinary scenes in Ceuta, the country’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has decamped to…
Welcome to Tivat, the ‘Monaco of the Balkans’
“Quiet luxury” is all the rage these days, the social media algorithms tell me. On Instagram and TikTok, Americans inform their…
The NHS is not in a crisis of racism
The Society of Radiographers have said racism is rising in the NHS. They give the example of a patient refusing…
What happened to the Democrats?
Whatever happened to the Democrats? Party of FDR, Kennedy and Clinton. Idealistic, moderate, gave a vague impression of actually liking…
How common is academic plagiarism in Britain?
The story of Cambridge professor Jason Arday’s academic scandal seems to have no end. First there were allegations of plagiarism,…
Treasury fires warning shot at wealthy
We are two weeks into Burnhamania and the Prime Minister has already, er, earned himself a break. Somewhere abroad, our…
Andy Burnham must get used to being unpopular
Andy Burnham is apparently enjoying his first taste of unpopularity as prime minister, in the form of the furore over…
Has Abdul El-Sayed just saved Trump?
Just a few hours before Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan last night, he told me…
Britain, Ukraine and the EU must strike a new deal
Like many of my generation, I have always been an Atlanticist. I was 22 and studying in the United States when…
The Jason Arday debacle is becoming a national scandal
The Jason Arday story is becoming a national scandal. What began as a vaguely amusing parable of our times, a schadenfreude-filled…
Ukraine is having fun attacking ‘Russia’s Amazon’
Have you ever wondered how much it costs to buy a drone, body armour, a combat helmet, a body bag…
Mamdani is learning how to rig the system
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani campaigned on freezing rents for rent-stabilized tenants. Since taking office earlier this year, he…
It’s healthy for kids to learn the meaning of true boredom
My 22-month-old son has just started enjoying imaginative play, and it’s a wonder to behold. There is little better than…
The British justice system is collapsing
Just over a week ago, Britain’s new prime minister Andy Burnham came under attack over the impending early releases from…
The troubling legacy of John Esposito
Many readers of The Spectator will never have heard of John Esposito, who died in Philadelphia on 15 July. Why should they?…
Antisemitism is now part of life in Britain
It’s a toss-up as to which is the least surprising: today’s new Community Security Trust figures showing another surge in…
We can’t keep pretending anti-Israel hate and anti-Semitism are unrelated
The sight of tens of thousands of would-be immigrants storming into Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta last week was…
Why millionaires like me shouldn’t leave the country
If anyone is fed up with being battered by Britain’s tax and regulation environment and is weighing up if they…
How Rod Liddle revolutionised Today
Convention dictates that one should never speak ill of the dead, but imagine telling that to my former friend Rod…
Our airports have won the battle against net zero – but not the war
For anti-airport campaigners it is a double setback. In the space of 24 hours, legal challenges against the expansion of…
Britain could benefit from the European shift on migration
Pedro Sánchez is in the diplomatic doghouse. The Ceuta migrant crisis last week has prompted an extraordinary diplomatic spat, with…
Andy Burnham will regret his working holiday
Here in my office on a quiet Manchester morning, with the air surprisingly warm beneath a gunmetal sky, the conditions…
Trump’s White House helipad do-over
Get to the chopper… but not yet. More construction is underway at the White House, as President Trump has directed…
Andrew Harper’s killers don’t deserve early release
PC Andrew Harper died in a way no police officer, no citizen, should ever die. He was called out to a…
Britain’s universities are feeding their own destruction
As observers of the trendy psychedelic scene know well, it is strongly advised that anyone who wants to experiment, anyone…
