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The SNP’s latest separation blueprint is pure project fantasy

30 May 2021 4:00 pm

‘A SNP MSP has claimed an independent Scotland could guarantee a couple with children a minimum income of more than…

Boris marries Carrie

30 May 2021 5:57 am

After Dominic Cummings’s seven-hour evidence session slating Boris Johnson and his ministers, it’s been a difficult few days of press…

There is no appetite for the Paul Ryan doctrine

30 May 2021 2:06 am

After whispering a prayer to St Ronald Reagan, Paul Ryan rose to his feet, solemnly kissed his bible, Atlas Shrugged,…

The problem with Prince Harry’s mental health drive

29 May 2021 10:22 pm

Has Prince Harry ever had a thought and not made it public? Are there feelings or emotions he has experienced…

All is rosy in the Downing Street garden

29 May 2021 7:29 pm

After Dominic Cummings’s explosive testimony on Wednesday, you might have thought special advisers in Downing Street would be spending the…

The catalogue of failures that allowed Usman Khan to kill

29 May 2021 5:00 pm

The inquest into the murder of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt by Islamist terrorist Usman Khan has revealed a collision…

The BBC cannot survive many more scandals

29 May 2021 4:00 pm

The BBC is still investigating one of its journalists almost one week after it emerged she had tweeted ‘Hitler was…

Macron fiddles as France burns

29 May 2021 3:50 pm

In May 2017 Emmanuel Macron struck a regal pose as he strode across the esplanade of the Louvre to address…

Is awarding medals to Bomber Command heroes a wise idea?

29 May 2021 3:30 pm

Will the heroic members of Bomber Command, who played such a vital role for Britain during the Second World War,…

Patrisse Cullors will have the last laugh

29 May 2021 6:12 am

Patrisse Cullors co-founded Black Lives Matter on faux victimhood. In her Thursday announcement that she would be resigning from the…

France is paying a heavy price for Macron’s vaccine catastrophe

29 May 2021 12:30 am

The United States is growing at such a blistering pace the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates. In…

Read: Carrie Symonds’s barking mad letter

28 May 2021 8:08 pm

It has been a ruff time in No. 10 for poor old Dilyn the dog. Adopted in September 2019, the…

The questions Matt Hancock still has to answer

28 May 2021 5:24 am

Matt Hancock’s approach to Dominic Cummings’s allegations has been to come out fighting. He believes he has spent most of today…

Making up history with the Biden White House

28 May 2021 3:06 am

Journalists gleefully declared on Wednesday that the Biden administration was ‘making history’ by sending White House deputy press secretary Karine…

Biden’s tax plan spells bad news for Ireland

28 May 2021 2:54 am

Biden’s America, of course, is all about re-engaging with the world after four years of isolationism. But if you are…

Westminster must stop Sturgeon’s separatist empire-building

28 May 2021 1:23 am

It is so rare to see a Conservative push back against devolution creep that I didn’t believe my eyes at…

Batley Grammar and the triumph of the mob

28 May 2021 12:08 am

Here’s the depressing truth about the Batley Grammar controversy: the mob has won. Angry protesters who gathered at the school…

The EU has learnt nothing from Brexit

27 May 2021 11:00 pm

This is Brexit all over again. The Swiss government yesterday pulled the plug on its seven-year negotiation of the EU-Swiss…

New poll reveals public anger at China over Covid

27 May 2021 10:28 pm

This week’s Spectator cover article examines China’s role in the origins of the Covid virus. With many of the early decisions about the…

Covid deaths in context

27 May 2021 8:04 pm

What would have been your overall chances of dying in the first 19 weeks of 2021 compared with recent years?…

Is the daily drip of Covid statistics still helpful?

27 May 2021 7:00 pm

It is hard to remember a time when the daily drip of Covid statistics was not part of our lives.…

‘I was treated like a traitor’: An interview with WHO whistleblower Francesco Zambon

27 May 2021 5:00 pm

Francesco Zambon is calling the World Health Organisation (WHO) to account. Zambon, who was based at the WHO’s Venice bureau,…

Will Cummings’s accusations damage Boris Johnson?

27 May 2021 3:57 am

One of Dominic Cummings’s strengths as a campaigner was his genius for a clear message – think ‘Take Back Control’…

Dominic Cummings’s explosive claim about the Bank of England

27 May 2021 3:42 am

Amidst all the explosive claims made by Dominic Cummings during today’sselect committee hearing, one towards the beginning of the seven-hour…

John Cena’s car-crash Taiwan apology

27 May 2021 3:11 am

In an unforgivably cringeworthy mea culpa delivered in surprisingly fluent Mandarin, John Cena has apologized to his fans in China. He had…