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Inflation fears grow
Two months ago The Spectator reported on what was keeping Rishi Sunak awake at night ahead of the Budget: an inflation…
Why the EU keeps losing against big tech
They shift revenues around. They create endless shadowy shell companies. And they undermine the social model by dodging taxes. To…
Americans baffled by monarch’s role in Queen’s Speech
Her Majesty the Queen might have thought any concerns about the State Opening of Parliament were behind her on Tuesday,…
Why universities are bad for the arts
Members of the arts establishment have spent the past week outraged, following news that for the upcoming academic year funding…
Why stamp duty should be lowered for good
Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday has been credited with reviving the property market and blamed for stoking house price inflation,…
Canada creeps towards totalitarianism
Canadians pride themselves on their ultra-progressive reputation. In contrast to the gun-loving, war-mongering, big government-hating, get-off-my-lawn-you-commie reputation of Americans, Canadians…
Tories unveil anti-woke manifesto
TheQueen’s Speech yesterday may have seen the government’s fairly dry visionfor modern Britain but a group of Conservative backbench MPs…
Studying history isn’t what it used to be
Is history in danger of becoming a thing of the past on campus? In recent weeks, Aston in Birmingham announced a consultation on…
The UK’s very American political realignment
The speed and scale with which voters, mainly but not exclusively in the north of England, have switched their allegiance…
Keir Starmer and the ‘Pasokification’ of Labour
As the Greek debt crisis took hold in the wake of the financial crash, there was one big political casualty.…
France needs Britain more than ever
‘What is grave about this situation, Messieurs, is that it is not serious’, was how General de Gaulle addressed his…
Do you have Bruenig Derangement Syndrome?
Oh, mother! What’s the most subversive argument a woman can make in the topsy-turvy la-la land that is America in…
Will Rishi Sunak fund Boris’s skills promises to the red wall?
Queen’s Speech day is one of the set-pieces when the government gets to decide that morning’s headlines. Barring disaster, the…
Boring Barnier won’t be the next French president
Let me go out on a limb here and predict that Michel Barnier, who is trying to rekindle his modest…
Were fears of a third wave overblown?
So, the third wave is officially no more. New modelling by SPI-M, the government’s committee on modelling for pandemics, has,…
Build Le Wall: Barnier backs a French migration ban
Since the conclusion of Brexit, former EU negotiator Michel Barnier has been keeping himself busy, releasing his own ‘secret journal’…
Who killed bipartisanship?
Who wants bipartisanship? The short answer is: neither side, so neither is getting it. Activists in both parties have been clear…
Sturgeon can’t hide the economic costs of Scexit
Might the 2020s be the seismic decade in which the post-war consensus, that liberal democracies do not and should not…
Sadiq Khan’s victory is good news for the Tories
Sadiq Khan is here to stay. London’s mayor has suggested he wants to stay on until 2040. But is this really good…
Fauci must answer for his role in Wuhan’s COVID lab
We still don’t know the origins of COVID-19, a full year and a half out from the start of the…
Could the Tories lose the South?
The coming Batley and Spen by-election — triggered by the incumbent MP’s election as the first mayor of West Yorkshire — is currently attracting a…
Are Meghan’s Covid claims correct?
When you are on the side of global enlightenment, the standards of proof required for your assertions tend to be…
The furlough scheme is holding back the jobs market
Last week the Bank of England increased its forecast for economic growth in 2021 from 5 to 7.25 per cent.…
Nine lessons from the elections
Here are the big things I learned from Thursday’s elections and their aftermath. 1. The Scottish parliament will vote to…
Starmer is Labour’s Iain Duncan Smith
After a gruelling election campaign the most important thing to do is to have a rest and have a think. Everyone…
