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Is the EU in an ‘autumn of enlargement’?
As the UK once again contemplates its future in Europe, the European Union is looking to inject momentum into its…
The dubious claims about a spate of racist lynchings in the US
‘Cases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation’s lynching history,’ read an ABC…
Why Germany’s AfD keeps winning
Germany’s radical right AfD party is threatening to end the career of hapless conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz by winning two…
Bring back the radio licence
Were you devastated to hear that the consumer programme You and Yours is to be axed in the latest round…
Live-streaming an execution is grotesque
The public will be able to watch via livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, the US-born Muslim terrorist who shot…
The execution will be televised
“Deus Vult.” That, famously, is what the large tattoo on Pete Hegseth’s right bicep says. The phrase, which means “God…
The minor party leaders are in major peril
After the silly season comes the serious stuff. On Monday, parliament returns after a bumper five-party conference season. But while…
Where is James Talarico?
In the midst of the most contentious Texas US Senate race in a generation, Democratic nominee James Talarico suddenly and…
Revealed: Reform’s new media strategy
After a tricky few months for Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK is fighting back. Senior figures have spent the summer…
Is it time for Jews to flee Berlin again?
When a leading German-Jewish intellectual warns Jews to leave Berlin for Israel; when there are accusations of ties to organised…
Zack Polanski’s downfall can’t come soon enough
As Tali Fraser points out in this week’s magazine, with the Greens on around 11 per cent in the polls and Restore…
How Iran’s pay-as-you-go terror came to Britain
The whole thing was absurdly hilarious. At one point, someone suggested it could have been a stag party gone wrong,…
The British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up
This week, The Spectator exposed how the British Muslim Trust (BMT), paid millions of pounds by the Government as its official monitor…
Zack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat
Zack Polanski’s failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is not just a disappointment; it undermines the Green…
Labour’s by-election triumph is a sign of Burnham’s signal achievement
Labour has comfortably won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 45 per cent of the vote, leaving Zack Polanski…
Why Labour doesn’t want to talk about NHS waiting lists
Remember NHS waiting lists? They used to be a political priority for the Labour government, which would claim it was…
Who’s to say Simon Pegg doesn’t have ADHD?
Simon Pegg has announced his diagnosis of ADHD, a condition now so well known that its abbreviation is normally left…
The mudslinging midterms
This is not an edifying election. That’s putting it delicately. An honest look at the quality of the candidates and…
Mothin Ali’s by-election day blunder
Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of…
Andy Burnham looked ill at ease in Berlin
Andy Burnham has been in Berlin today – his first bilateral diplomatic visit since entering Downing Street nearly three months…
Rubio picked the wrong Athenian
The Pnyx is a scrubby hill west of the Acropolis where Athenian citizens once crammed together to argue, vote and,…
A small victory for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Whisper it, but the tide may be turning for one of Britain’s most unpopular, and unfortunate, men. The news that…
The irony of Labour’s crackdown on fake gay asylum seekers
On Tuesday morning, three people were arrested by Home Office immigration enforcement because of their suspected links to a criminal…
The decade of Trump has been a necessary corrective
The past two centuries have been the era of mass production, of people as well as things. To a degree…
Britannia Shield won’t keep the UK safe from Russia, but Israel might
When Donald Trump announced with great bombast his plan for an American ‘Golden Dome’, he promised an all-encompassing shield that…
