World
The Andrew debacle has blown open the royal coffers for all to see
If you’ve ever dramatically broken up with an ex, only to find, to your miserable disbelief, that they keep popping…
The joy of receiving Christmas cards – even from people I loathe
These days I barely know what my own handwriting looks like; about my friends, the knowledge is all but lost.…
HMS Prince of Wales is not yet the finished product
Huge crowds of locals, plus families and friends of the crew, greeted the return home of the nation’s flagship aircraft…
What are Ukrainian children doing in North Korea?
The regime of North Korea has continued to exploit the war in Ukraine to spread its propaganda. This week we…
The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection
Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…
Scottish Tory peer joins Reform
To Falkirk, where Nigel Farage has flown ahead of the Holyrood elections – to announce another big name member of…
Paris is a city afraid
The New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs Élysées has been cancelled for security reasons. Paris was supposed to host…
Until Truss faces her enemies, she remains an irrelevance
Liz Truss is back. The ex-prime minister hosted a new current affairs show last night on Just The News, a…
Tommy Robinson wants to put ‘Christ back into Christmas’? No, thanks
So Tommy Robinson is inviting us all to have Christmas with him. The far-right activist has announced that there will…
The comedy genius of Zarah Sultana
As both of the great Spectator writers Madeline Grant and Gareth Roberts have pointed out here recently, the element of…
How to live gracefully in a ‘granny annexe’
There comes a time in every Boomer Granny’s life when she must consider the ‘granny annexe’ as a viable demesne. For Sarah Ferguson, that time has…
The strange history of one-armed vs one-legged cricket
A sheet metal worker from Shropshire who lost a leg below the knee in a tractor accident when he was…
Has Reform peaked?
The week ends as it began, with Keir Starmer outlining plans to curb child poverty, news that Rachel Reeves won’t…
Watch: Zack Polanski’s bizarre migration remarks
To BBC Question Time, where the leader of the Green party made a rather interesting intervention on migration last night.…
Why shouldn’t Trump deport Prince Harry?
There are many things Americans admire about Britain – Shakespeare, Churchill and parliamentary democracy (on a good day). Above all,…
Inside the world of Reform’s mystery money man
Nigel Farage keeps eclectic company. Reform is not a party of slick spin doctors or career politicians. Instead, it is…
Keir Starmer says ending child poverty is Labour’s ‘moral mission’
Tackling child poverty is this government’s ‘moral mission’, Keir Starmer insisted today. The Prime Minister has unveiled plans that he…
Farage: Corbyn and Sultana should ask me for tips
To Reform’s Nigel Farage, who managed to dominate headlines today after he took a pop at the Beeb on Thursday…
Boycotting Israel could kill Eurovision
What exactly is the point of Eurovision? It can’t be about the music. Britain, the nation that gifted the world…
Milo Yiannopoulos holds forth on the origins of homosexuality
Are we becoming “faggotized?” According to Milo Yiannopoulos “everything has gone gay” – food, music, fashion, showbiz and – significantly…
There’s nothing equal about Russia’s relationship with India
Vladimir Putin lands in Delhi, steps off the plane and instantly gets what he came for: the pictures. The handshake…
The evil of the grooming gangs is finally being exposed
It has now been six weeks since the inquiry into ‘Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ fell into chaos. Over…
David Lammy is wrong about Brexit and the EU
David Lammy believes Britain should rejoin the EU customs union to boost economic growth. In an interview on Thursday, the…
Why GPs are reluctant about online booking
‘Moaning Minnies’ is how the Health Secretary Wes Streeting has described GPs opposing his rollout of online appointment booking. Originally,…
Fifa’s great World Cup rip-off has gone too far
Today’s World Cup draw in Washington, presided over by Fifa president Gianni Infantino with best buddie president Donald Trump at…
