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Whitehall isn’t taking tech seriously
Britain will become “the fastest adopter of AI in the G7” the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, proudly told us last month.…
Is Britain too hot for our pet dogs?
Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun but venturing out at that hour during a heatwave…
Goat is tasty. But don’t force it on me
‘Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,’ John Godfrey Saxe warned…
Why Britain doesn’t need China
Andrew Sabisky is a self-described superforecaster. As one of Philip Tetlock’s devotees he claims to have an elite sensitivity to…
The case against al fresco dining
Late in 2020, under semi-lockdown conditions, I viewed an empty flat in the Seven Dials enclave of Covent Garden, a…
Trump’s America is losing its mojo
The heat is on. The R&B group Kool and the Gang may be co-headlining the historic “A Capitol Fourth 250th…
Would Oxford still open its doors to a poor, white boy like me?
Magdalen College, Oxford, is over-represented at The Spectator. Not long ago, Paul Johnson and Matthew d’Ancona were fixtures here. Today, there…
Iran wants Khamenei’s funeral to send a warning to its enemies
The week-long funeral ceremony for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s former supreme leader who was killed in a US-Israeli military strikes…
How Britain reacted to the Declaration of Independence
The 250th anniversary of America’s Declaration of Independence comes at a moment when Anglo-American relations are buffeted by competing visions…
Trump has exposed the limits of American power
Donald Trump’s quest for regime change in Iran has backfired horribly. The president misunderstood the resilience of the 47-year-old Islamic…
Andy Burnham is making Manchester look like a joke
It may sound a little naff, but Manchester is a city I’m genuinely proud to call home. Not least because…
Kemi crashes Burnham’s Reddit refuge
With weeks to go until he becomes a Labour Prime Minister almost no one voted for, Andy Burnham has been…
Can Labour’s Golden Generation deliver?
Andy Burnham is just finishing an ‘ask me anything’ Reddit interview, which may shed some light on his plans, but…
A golden age… for Trump
“You can do two things,” Donald Trump told reporters as he stood beside the new retrofitted Air Force One on…
Are American workers just ‘settlers?’
Is the United States a capitalist country, where bosses exploit workers, or is it a great empire, where colonists exploit…
There’s no place for schismatics in the Catholic Church
There is probably limited reader appetite for a dispute between two Catholic journalists over internal Church intrigue, but I must…
Venezuela’s future has never looked less certain
Families are still picking through the rubble in Venezuela. A weary-looking man searches for his wife in a heap of…
Is forced adoption any more barbaric than abortion?
There was a moving and unusual display of unity in the Commons on Thursday when the Prime Minister apologised on…
Everyone is arguing about devolution except voters
Three years ago, Ipsos asked Britons a simple question: does the government care about places like yours? Eighty per cent…
Will a VAT cut save our restaurants?
The hospitality industry is in trouble. The last few years have seen an already low-profit, labour-intensive sector battle with a…
The NHS should not be rewarding people to walk
The NHS has seemingly decided that Britain’s “inactivity crisis” can be solved in much the same way as coffee chains…
Watch: Sarah Pochin shares emotional adoption story
It was incredibly brave of Sarah Pochin MP to share her family’s experience of forced adoption yesterday. We would like…
The problem with Burnham’s ‘cost of living populism’
Is Andy Burnham plotting to base his premiership around a policy of ‘cost of living populism’? That is what is being…
Kate Middleton is the royal family’s best ambassador
If you had been queuing up to buy tickets at Wimbledon yesterday, then you might have been forgiven for doubting…
Taylor Swift has the power to make marriage great again
Taylor Swift’s wedding – a multi-day extravaganza kicking off in earnest at New York’s Madison Square Garden arena later today –…
