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Elon Musk’s Doge was a damp squib
Doge has been Doge’d. Elon Musk’s once fearsome US Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has been shut down eight months…
Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy
So much for a simple Chinese takeaway. In his never-ending search for growth, Sir Keir Starmer has finally alighted on…
Coutinho: Net zero is perverse
Today saw The Spectator’s Energy Summit in full swing, with a variety of panels, debates and discussions about issues from…
Zack Polanski’s fantasy economics
Oh dear. Green leader Zack Polanski may have enticed thousands more voters to join his party with his eco-populist rhetoric,…
Tory chair links Reform badge to the Nazis
Ding ding ding! The gloves are coming off as tensions rise between the Conservatives and Reform UK. Tory party chairman…
How a burka brought bedlam to Australia’s parliament
Australia’s parliament is a curious place when it comes to its dress code. Suits without ties: frowned upon. Dresses made…
Russia is willing to keep on fighting in Ukraine
At a time when Western commentators are tying themselves in knots trying to parse the ongoing Ukraine peace discussions, the…
Why Iran needs the Maduro regime
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and three warships have been sent to the Caribbean, where they are joining a dozen Navy…
Environmental regulations are killing nuclear power
There is no greener form of power than nuclear power. It emits less carbon and uses less space per megawatt…
How Shabana Mahmood can fix the police
By the standards Shabana Mahmood has set for herself, the speech she made to police leaders at their annual conference…
Britain’s asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s asylum shake-up has sent the Irish government into something approaching panic mode. The profound new measures,…
Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?
Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks. Those were not my words, they came from a…
Philip Pullman is right: Oxford is a ‘frustrating and irritating’ place
The vast acclaim that Sir Philip Pullman’s latest novel, The Rose Field, has received has cemented his status as one…
A lethal standoff is playing out deep beneath Gaza
In 1929, René Magritte painted a picture that has since become iconic in both art and philosophy. The Treachery of…
Should this academic have been banned from campus for using the ‘n-word’?
Is it ever acceptable to say the ‘n-word’? As you will have immediately inferred by that sentence, it’s rare to…
The global cottage industry gaming America’s culture wars
It is the 9/11 of the blue ticks, the Hindenburg of the grifters, the dotcom bubble of the slop-peddlers. The…
Sunday shows round-up: Mel Stride says ‘mistakes will have been made’ during Covid
Heidi Alexander: ‘Tackling child poverty is in the DNA of the Labour Party’ The expectation is that Chancellor Rachel Reeves’…
Isis is stirring once more
Indications that the Islamic State (Isis) has begun to employ artificial intelligence in its efforts to recruit new fighters should…
France’s integration nightmare
France has spent decades telling itself the same comforting story: that the children and grandchildren of Muslim immigrants would become…
Red tape has broken Britain
The overwhelming smell of weed wafting down the street; heaps of decomposing litter floating in local canals and rivers; the…
Why Venezuela matters to Iran
The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and three warships have been sent to the Caribbean, where they are joining a…
Who is looking out for Britain’s salmon and frogs?
Whatever happened to British ecology? I was thinking that when I read two reports in the Times this week, both pretty depressing.…
We must cut Send to help our kids
It is ‘insane’, Reform’s Doge chief Richard Tice said this week, that children are wearing ear-defenders in classrooms, supposedly as…
The CPS is desperate for a backdoor blasphemy law
I had hoped I would never have to write about Hamit Coskun again. After the Quran-burner won his appeal in October, it…
Will Mahmood’s asylum reforms force Ireland’s hand?
Labour’s plans to overhaul Britain’s overstretched asylum system have forced the Irish government to do the same. As the Northern…
