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Thatcherism shows where Britain went wrong – and how it can go right
It is a hundred years since Margaret Thatcher was born. Fifty years since she took over the Conservative Party. Thirty-four…
No, Meghan: your Netflix deal isn’t a sign of ‘strength’
The Duchess of Sussex has been largely absent from the public eye since the release of the second series of…
Human rights busybodies should keep out of the trans toilet row
The problems with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the bureaucracy behind it aren’t limited to the spanners…
Netanyahu has let a key opportunity slip through his fingers
The refusal of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit this week has cast a…
Trigger warnings don’t work
As trigger warnings became fashionable over the last decade, many argued that they were artistically stifling, patronising, and even redundant…
Strava is ruining running
When I first started running 25 years ago, it was the simplicity that captured my heart. There were no complicated…
Inside Britain’s socialist dogfight
For a few days in Manchester last weekend, there was a utopia. The World Transformed conference of British socialists had…
Hamas unchecked is as brutal as ever
As the dust settles on Israel’s phased withdrawal from Gaza under Donald Trump’s hard-won ceasefire deal, Hamas has slithered straight…
Is Marjorie Taylor Greene a Democrat?
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has spent the last week gnawing on the hand that feeds her, showing that no…
Rayner set to miss I’m a Celebrity
They say that showbiz is politics for ugly people. But that has not stopped some of parliament’s finest swapping the…
Middle East experts got Trump all wrong
Whenever Donald Trump proposes a policy that runs counter to the progressive consensus, there are three stages of response: it’ll…
You want a peace of me?
President Trump prevented World War Three yesterday, or so he claimed multiple times. “No one wants World War Three,” he…
Is conversion therapy free speech?
Kaley Chiles is a Christian therapist who places the Bible at the center of her practice. To many of her…
Joan Collins hailed at conservative shindig
As any good Spectator subscriber knows, Joan Collins is a national institution. The Hollywood star took centre stage at last…
Will voters buy the SNP’s ‘fresh start’ mantra?
There was a feeling of relief in the air at the SNP’s conference in Aberdeen when, for the first time…
What’s wrong with being sentimental?
When Samuel Richardson’s Pamela was published in 1740, it unleashed something unprecedented in literary history. This epistolary novel about a virtuous servant…
Can the peace in Gaza last?
He came, he saw, he conquered. That just about describes President Trump’s 12,000-mile round trip from Washington, D.C. to Israel…
Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes
On Question Time last week, Zack Polanski, the Green Party leader and erstwhile boob-whisperer, declared that there is no evidence…
I visited Canterbury Cathedral’s graffiti. Here’s the worst thing about it
The first, and the lasting, impression one gets from Canterbury Cathedral’s new graffiti-style art instillation is just how reasonable and…
Workers are paying the price for Labour’s National Insurance hike
Wasn’t Labour supposed to be tackling the scourge of insecure employment, doing away with exploitative zero hours contracts and giving…
Boris blasts Farage at Thatcher dinner
To the Guildhall where hundreds of Thatcherites last night met to pay tribute to the Iron Lady. On the centenary…
The truth about the Green party’s booming membership
The Greens are having quite a moment. Since the anointing of Zack Polanski as leader of the party, there’s been…
Britain’s unofficial blasphemy laws have been decades in the making
Defenders of free expression can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Hamit Coskun – the man who burnt a Quran…
Did Blair really rebuild Kosovo?
Donald Trump seems to be questioning Tony Blair’s inclusion in the so-called ‘Board of Peace’ to rebuild Gaza. On Monday,…
The Tory party will never die
A political party widely referred to as ‘the Tories’ has now existed – albeit with some rather serious discontinuities along…
