Two peers suspended over lobbying

25 November 2025 10:33 pm

To the House of Lords, where it transpires that two peers are to be suspended after they were deemed to…

Does Rachel Reeves really get more online abuse than most?

25 November 2025 9:45 pm

In politics, as in life, it helps to get your excuses in early. That presumably is why, ahead of tomorrow’s…

Nigeria’s mass school abduction is its worst yet – but the West doesn’t seem to care

25 November 2025 9:33 pm

The kidnapping of over 300 students and teachers from a Catholic school by armed men in the Papiri area of…

Children should be banned from pubs

25 November 2025 9:29 pm

Before I begin, let me say this: I like children. To my amazement, I even have two of my own. But do I…

Pauline Hanson: I’ve won the people

25 November 2025 9:25 pm

Why is the Senate terrified of debating a burqa ban?

The report that lays bare France’s Islamist networks

25 November 2025 7:49 pm

Bruno Retailleau, France’s former interior minister, has with his Senate group just published the toughest report on Islamism in a…

The problem with funky vicars

25 November 2025 7:04 pm

The Reverend Kate Bottley, the celebrity vicar who came to fame on Gogglebox, has a message for the nation. ‘The…

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress

25 November 2025 6:10 pm

As an American who respects the constitutional role and historical continuity of the British Crown, I view the recent congressional…

Could Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?

25 November 2025 5:29 pm

For years, there was a broad consensus in Israel that there was no benefit to reintroducing the death penalty. But now,…

David Olusoga’s Empire exposes the BBC’s history problem

25 November 2025 4:00 pm

While the BBC’s mis-editing of Donald Trump’s words has dominated the headlines, less attention has been paid to another example…

A party that thinks Vaucluse is Australia

25 November 2025 3:36 pm

The Liberal Party has discovered a new theory of renewal: if the roof caves in on Wednesday, replace the beams…

NDIS: The compassion racket

25 November 2025 3:00 pm

Emotional incentives are the most expensive kind

Do you still trust the media?

25 November 2025 2:35 pm

The seven problems of modern journalism

Liberal Party is dead, and moderates just delivered its eulogy

25 November 2025 10:23 am

Yesterday I was toying with Nietzsche’s idea that God is dead, and we have killed him, but in a Menzian…

G20 leaders ‘defy Trump’ gloating that net zero will cost trillions

25 November 2025 9:41 am

There is something remarkably juvenile about prime ministers, presidents, and media establishments gloating that the G20 Leaders’ Summit has ‘defied…

Comparing Reform to the Nazis is no joke

25 November 2025 3:43 am

It is a well known axiom of politics that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have well…

Elon Musk’s Doge was a damp squib

25 November 2025 3:35 am

Doge has been Doge’d. Elon Musk’s once fearsome US Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) has been shut down eight months…

Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy

25 November 2025 3:31 am

So much for a simple Chinese takeaway. In his never-ending search for growth, Sir Keir Starmer has finally alighted on…

Coutinho: Net zero is perverse

25 November 2025 3:21 am

Today saw The Spectator’s Energy Summit in full swing, with a variety of panels, debates and discussions about issues from…

Zack Polanski’s fantasy economics

25 November 2025 2:38 am

Oh dear. Green leader Zack Polanski may have enticed thousands more voters to join his party with his eco-populist rhetoric,…

Tory chair links Reform badge to the Nazis

25 November 2025 2:26 am

Ding ding ding! The gloves are coming off as tensions rise between the Conservatives and Reform UK. Tory party chairman…

How a burka brought bedlam to Australia’s parliament

25 November 2025 1:27 am

Australia’s parliament is a curious place when it comes to its dress code. Suits without ties: frowned upon. Dresses made…

Russia is willing to keep on fighting in Ukraine

25 November 2025 12:03 am

At a time when Western commentators are tying themselves in knots trying to parse the ongoing Ukraine peace discussions, the…

Why Iran needs the Maduro regime

24 November 2025 10:39 pm

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and three warships have been sent to the Caribbean, where they are joining a dozen Navy…

Environmental regulations are killing nuclear power

24 November 2025 9:46 pm

There is no greener form of power than nuclear power. It emits less carbon and uses less space per megawatt…