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Tories raise £500k post Kemi speech
Tomorrow marks a fortnight since Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech. After a difficult first year when the Conservatives have sometimes struggled…
Backlash after Lords restrict assisted suicide evidence
Well, well, well. Kim Leadbeater’s assisted suicide bill has made it to the House of Lords, where the legislation will…
Jess Phillips is letting down grooming gang victims again
Remember when feminists rallied behind the mantra ‘Believe All Women’? It was back in 2017, at the peak of the…
Full list: MPs attacking Prince Andrew
The government is facing a rather strange dilemma: what to do about Prince Andrew. Last week the royal voluntarily gave…
It’s about time abusive fathers were stripped of their parental rights
It’s not often the Ministry of Justice gets it absolutely right. But they have today. It has been announced that…
YouGov: Green support surges to record high
Whisper it, but it appears Zack Polanski’s eco-populism strategy is working. After his election as the new leader of the…
The American empire is consuming itself
Over the weekend, millions of Americans took to the streets in more than 2,000 ‘No Kings’ marches nationwide, protesting what…
Louis Theroux’s bizarre Bob Vylan interview
To veteran BBC documentary-maker, Louis Theroux. On The Louis Theroux Podcast, the longtime interviewer spoke to Bobby Vylan – one…
Trump’s border policy is beginning to bear fruit
The second Trump administration tends to characterize those who have illegally crossed the southern US border as drug dealers, criminals…
Why is Stephen Miller so divisive?
One of the most striking things about Trump 2: The Trumpening is how few characters are still on board from…
From Russia with love
My morning routine is the same. Coffee, feed cats, exercise, walk, read the latest news. Except now I wake up…
How Israel won the war – and lost the PR battle
Regardless of the ultimate outcome of the Gaza peace deal brokered by Donald Trump, the past two years have seen…
What is the point of Pizza Hut?
When did you last go to a Pizza Hut? It’s one of those curious groups of fast food establishments –…
How the drug cartels are ‘diversifying’ into baby-trafficking
Juárez, Mexico On the morning of September 2, in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexican law enforcement raided a remote safehouse and uncovered…
We have allowed Jew hate to take over the streets
Last night’s decision by Maccabi Tel Aviv to not take up its allocation of away tickets is deeply depressing. The…
A Neil Young concert in the waning days of summer
By the time we got to Woodstock… actually, we never got to Woodstock. Bethel, the town in which the fabled…
Sunak bags new gig as Sunday Times columnist
Rishi Sunak was expected to set sail for the US after leaving No. 10, but it turns out his post-prime…
The tyranny of the mass-intellectual
In the classical world the question of whether virtue can be taught, or is rather acquired by interior inclination and…
When did restaurants get so boring?
The New York Times recently released its annual list of America’s Top 50 restaurants – and the perfectly predictable honorees…
Why I haven’t created a tomato-cannabis hybrid
Jean-Louis was leaning out of his second-floor window. “Bonsoir, Dan!” I could hear the rumblings of a social gathering behind…
Hands off my tumble dryer, Martin Lewis
I did not expect to have to write this, but I can say publicly and without reservation that I absolutely…
Can American restaurants thrive in Britain?
To mark the arrival of Carbone in London and the imminent opening of Straker’s in New York, The Spectator’s Angus…
In awe of Fuji-san
My personal version of hell? Shibuya station, Tokyo. Shibuya Scramble is one thing: the busiest pedestrian intersection on the planet,…
Good riddance (or not) to George Abaraonye
It was rather sly of George Abaraonye to move the motion of no confidence in himself as president-elect of the…
Zelensky faces a dilemma
Keeping abreast of President Trump’s changing moods has never been so challenging, especially for Volodymyr Zelensky, his Ukrainian counterpart. Judging…
