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Not everyone will miss Jurgen Klopp
So, farewell then Jurgen Klopp. What memories you will leave us. You were exuberant, passionate and unorthodox. You ran up…
Scotland’s juryless rape trials are based on a myth
Scotland currently faces a huge threat to the criminal justice system, in the form of juryless trials in rape cases.…
Tory MPs must share the blame with Sunak for the party’s troubles
Rishi Sunak is a drab technocrat mired in a failed political paradigm and with a tin ear for public opinion.…
A (partial) defence of the ‘Jewface’ Oscars
How could I be Jewish, my friend wondered out loud, when I didn’t have the… She paused as she mimed…
The ludicrous saga of India’s butter chicken war
Butter chicken, one of India’s best-known dishes and a favourite all over the world, is at the centre of an extraordinary…
Should foreign governments own UK newspapers?
The Emirati / RedBird IMI bid for the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator is opening up a wider conversation: how…
Biden’s media allies want to talk about Trump’s cognitive issues
As another Trump presidency starts to look more likely, the incessant conversations about age are bubbling back up. Roundtable discussions…
The Scottish government’s bizarre egg donor drive
A bright pink box fills my screen; soon it’s filled with blue cartoon sperm swimming towards a large, wobbling egg,…
Will we ever learn the lessons of the Holocaust?
As a child, I had to wash my hands before I was shown books of photographs depicting the ghettos and…
It will be difficult for Israel to ignore this ICJ ruling
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered an interim ruling on South Africa’s genocide case against Israel. Its decision…
Would I die for Britain? No thanks
The West’s military posture has moved from ‘thick’ to ‘suicidal’. The recent speech of General Sir Patrick Sanders, the head…
Brighton shows why you shouldn’t vote Labour
I surely wasn’t the only citizen of Brighton and Hove who breathed a sigh of relief when the Green council…
Why is the UN sticking up for Just Stop Oil protestors?
Do you remember when you couldn’t get your child to school on time because of a Just Stop Oil slow…
The danger of returning the Ghanaian ‘Crown Jewels’
I put the case in last week’s Spectator that museums in this country have been gripped by a sort of…
How Chuck Schumer is interfering in the Montana GOP Senate primary
Every two years, Chuck Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC and its allies come up with cunning ways to get Democrats over…
The SNP’s Covid reckoning
We now know from evidence to the Covid Inquiry that Scottish government ministers were as prone to offensive language as…
What the UN court’s genocide verdict means for Israel
The International Court of Justice has handed down a preliminary ruling instructing Israel to prevent a genocide from happening in…
Watch: Angela Rayner heckled by Palestine activists
It looks like the ructions over Labour’s Palestine position aren’t ending anytime soon. Since the horrifying Hamas massacre on October…
Alabama’s nitrogen gas execution is indefensible
Let’s park for a moment the morality of the death penalty. You know what you think. It’s one of those…
Jurgen Klopp’s departure is a disaster for Liverpool
The news that the Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is to quit his job at the end of the season is…
Why is Britain acting like a mini-EU?
The collapse of talks to renew a trade deal between Britain and Canada is a reminder that there is nothing…
Putin’s Kaliningrad visit wasn’t a threat to Nato
President visits part of his own country. Shock. Vladimir Putin’s visit yesterday to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, perched precariously…
Israel shows why conscription works
Take a step back and it’s a no-brainer: If you want a healthy society, you need a spirit of unity.…
European voters are rebelling against the elites
A friend of mine intends to vote for the National Rally in June’s European Elections. That in itself is nothing…
Andrew Neil: it would be absurd for the UAE to own The Spectator
Last night The Spectator’s chairman, Andrew Neil, spoke for the first time about the sale of this magazine and the…
