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My best friend Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer was my closest and dearest friend for 40 years. I first met him in 1986 when we were…
Burnham’s Berlin visit won’t give Merz the boost he’s hoping for
Andy Burnham makes his first visit as Prime Minister to Germany today in an attempt to further strengthen the country’s…
France’s student protests always go the same way
The world is watching alarming scenes in the burnished boulevards of Paris where riot police are using batons and tear…
The Tories love Kemi – but who loves them?
I swear that every year the introductions to leaders’ speeches at party conferences become more and more of a circus.…
Fourteen things we learned from Kemi Badenoch’s Tory conference speech
Kemi Badenoch delivered her Conservative party conference speech in Birmingham this afternoon. Here are fourteen things we learned from her…
Inside the October 7 Palestine march
The anti-Israel mob has a new mission: to erase the truth about October 7, 2023. The sadistic violence unleashed by…
It’s no surprise Burnham wants to delay boosting defence spending
There was a grim inevitability about this. ‘Whitehall sources’, which is almost always code for the government rolling the pitch…
Why Kemi Badenoch should end devolution
A Spectator reader and Kemi Badenoch enthusiast gets in touch occasionally to remind me of my brief flirtation with Robert…
Could a steak chain heiress bring down Germany’s former spy chief?
Has a custody dispute involving the multi-millionaire heiress of a steak chain brought down the former head of Germany’s foreign…
Cristiano Ronaldo is acting like a big baby
Cristiano Ronaldo, football’s biggest cry baby, simply has no idea when to stop. He threw his toys out of the…
Badenoch’s speech marks the return of conviction politics
Most conference speeches are significant for only one moment. Kemi Badenoch’s address to the Tory faithful today had two of…
Why won’t Burnham release the Neets report?
Why has Andy Burnham delayed the publication of Alan Milburn’s review into Neets until after the Budget? The review is…
How the West failed the test on October 7
Let’s remember what happened three years ago today. A 6,000-strong army of Islamofascists invaded the Jewish nation. They used guns,…
Trump is trying to stave off a midterms disaster
Once upon a time Democrats used to ask, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Now it’s Republicans who may be tempted to…
The meaning of Flávio Bolsonaro
In May, Flávio Bolsonaro sat down with Donald Trump at the White House. He made a pledge: if he were…
Is the Trump phenomenon an anomaly?
I suppose you could say that the Trump decade began on June 16, 2015, when Donald and Melania Trump descended…
Have the Conservatives found ‘the right way’?
Kemi Badenoch often likes to claim that the Conservative Party is her ‘family’ and there is plenty of evidence to…
Jaguar’s new electric car is a terrible mistake
At least it has dropped the bright pink. But in every other respect the new, all-electric Jaguar launched in New…
October 7 was a jihad against Jews
It is not as though I was unaware that Hamas was a jihadist terrorist organisation. After all, I grew up…
Shabana Mahmood has said the quiet bit out loud
Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, has said that every woman travelling illegally to the UK will probably have been raped…
Must the Free Palestine mob march on October 7?
It is the third anniversary of the killing of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the worst such massacre…
Trump official: ‘anti-Semitic’ European countries risk US sanctions for boycotting Israeli settlements
European countries that impose boycotts on Israel are ‘anti-Semitic’ and risk retaliatory sanctions from the United States, a senior Trump…
Reports about taking out Los Angeles and San Diego are greatly exaggerated
It’s four weeks until Election Day and Donald Trump is doing his utmost to dig Republicans out of their polling…
At conference, the Tories are haunted by their past
Day three of the Tory conference. A giant drone hung over the stage for the afternoon’s session on defence. Plenty…
Has the plague broken out in Russia?
On the evening of Friday October 2, Daria Shipilova, an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute, died in a district…
