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Reform support in Scotland rises again
Another day, another bad poll for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party. With less than six months until the Scottish parliament…
Keir Starmer’s call for ECHR reform is a risky gamble
Ahead of a Council of Europe summit in Strasbourg today to discuss the future scope of the European Convention on…
The special needs racket is out of control
We are, as vicars like to tell us, all special in our own way. But none so much as children…
Will Australia’s social media ban work?
It’s all too easy to get hooked by the online world, to fall headlong into it, to spend hour upon…
Bardella and Le Pen are closer to power than ever before
The 20 days that Nicolas Sarkozy recently spent behind bars have been turned into a book published today. The 70-year-old…
The Great British Railways trains are an abomination
The Transport Secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed new train designs for the nationalised Great British Railways. By next spring, a…
Europe’s kind words and bear hugs can’t save Zelensky
If bear hugs were army divisions and brave words cash euros, Volodymyr Zelensky would have ended his tour of European…
Harry Potter doesn’t need a trigger warning
Take my advice and steer clear of your local university. It is not just the flu that’s spreading on campus.…
Farage and Bardella’s small boats pact
What will European politics look like in 2029? Nigel Farage is hoping that it resembles something like the pictures he…
The billion-dollar fraud in a Democratic utopia
The real world has, once again, intruded on the utopia that progressives fancifully believe in. The Department of Justice alleges…
Stella Creasy’s bizarre job advert
Labour MP Stella Creasy is hiring for a senior campaigns manger, and the job specifications are quite something. The Walthamstow…
From grooming gangs to maternity safety: how the British state is failing
Is anyone happy with the latest maternity safety report, published by Baroness Amos today? The former UN diplomat says the…
The battle to stop US universities aiding Chinese repression
It goes by an innocuous name – “Integrated Joint Operations Platform” (IJOP) – but it’s one of the most sinister…
Is racism to blame for the NHS maternity crisis?
‘Nothing prepared me,’ said Baroness Amos as she released her ‘reflections and initial impressions’ about England’s maternity and neonatal services,…
Plaid and Welsh Labour strike Senedd deal
December is a time for spirits aplenty. But has the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come visited early this year?…
Badenoch takes aim at Britain’s youth
Christmas is nearly upon us – but there is no sign that Kemi Badenoch is ready to enjoy a rest. The Leader of…
Why were these Afghan rapists even in Britain?
Everything about that rape of a 15-year-old girl in Leamington Spa is horrifying. First and foremost, the barbaric act itself.…
Who was ‘Stakeknife’?
Freddie Scappaticci was a thickset man with dark features and a walrus moustache. He was born in Belfast in 1946,…
Piers Morgan fell into Nick Fuentes’s trap
When Michael Gove introduced me to Piers Morgan last week at the Spectator Christmas reception, Morgan seized my hand and beamed,…
When Piers Morgan met Nick Fuentes
Russell Crowe’s new film is about trying to suss out hidden fans of Hitler, but what happens when the person…
Is Huw Edwards plotting a comeback?
To Huw Edwards, who has resurfaced on social media to post a professionally shot black-and-white portrait in what some assume…
Why Labour’s plotters are doomed to fail
Rewatching the 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Express the other night, I was struck by the incredible organisational…
The open borders crime scandal
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly…
Mark Rowley may have blown his chance to reform the Met
When the history books reflect on the commissionership of the Metropolitan Police Chief Sir Mark Rowley, there is a risk…
The Trump-Kennedy Center?
“I have a good memory, so I can remember things, which is very fortunate,” a tuxedo-clad President Trump said on…
