Labour MP U-turns on benefit cuts letter
There’s drama in Labourland today as one backbencher appears to have had second thoughts about her stance on benefits payments…
Is Kemi Badenoch finally getting the hang of PMQs?
Kemi Badenoch made some changes to her strategy at Prime Minister’s Questions today and had a much better time of…
Quangos are forever
So it is goodbye to the Payment Systems Regulator, which will be merged with the Financial Conduct Authority. That is…
Parliament splashes £4 million on traffic marshals
If you, dear reader, have visited parliament in recent years, you might have had the misfortune to be confronted by…
Nicola Sturgeon’s dismal legacy
The departure of the former Scottish First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, from active politics draws a line under the Scottish National…
Is Canada doing enough to stop the US trade war?
There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and…
Trump’s Tesla stunt won’t help Musk
Tesla’s share price has halved, sales have slumped, boycotts are being organised and Chinese rivals are ready to steal the…
The ‘dirty dozen’ who crossed Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is a curate’s egg of a politician: good in parts. The good part, at least for a Brexiteer…
Why isn’t Streeting cracking down on puberty blockers?
If a government’s first duty is to protect its citizens, then Wes Streeting must step up to defend some of…
Holding court over culture
The decision of the High Court this week that found native title is ‘property’, is bold. It potentially opens the…
The BBC’s Ramadan blindspot
The month of Ramadan is well under way and the BBC is encouraging all its employees to demonstrate empathy and…
Oleksii Reznikov: ‘Trump and Zelensky fall-out was a clash of emotions’
‘What just happened – the suspension of military aid – was predictable. I expected it. It wasn’t too hard to…
Will Labour’s Planning Bill get Britain building again?
The UK has one of the worst housing shortages in the developed world, with 4.3 million fewer homes than we…
Why Putin could reject a ceasefire
With all the good news coming out of the Jeddah talks about a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, there is only…
What would Reform be without Nigel Farage?
Barely have they abandoned the sinking ship that is HMS Tory than right-wingers are finding their liferaft taking on water.…
The truth about blinkered single-issue campaigners
Why do single-issue campaigners oppose solutions to their problems? Once you become aware of ‘not invented here’ syndrome, you start…
The reckoning that never came
Nearly three years ago, on the eve of the election, I wrote my debut Spectator Australia article calling for a…
The failure of Family Law reform in Australia
John Stapleton spent a quarter of a century working as a general news reporter for two of Australia’s leading mastheads,…
Reciprocal tariffs would be foolish
Trump imposing tariffs on Australia was perhaps inevitable. Trump 2.0 is not the Trump 1.0 who negotiated free trade agreements…
You can thank our politicians for Trump’s tariffs
It’s all fun and games until Trump pulls the tariff card. Remember that while having a chuckle at the President’s…
Trump and Elon’s Oval Office Tesla auto show
So Donald Trump and Sean Hannity are each springing for a Tesla. It shouldn’t prove much of a hit to their respective…
Has Ukraine called Putin’s bluff?
Has Vladimir Putin’s bluff just been called? It certainly looks like it. So long as the Ukrainians were refusing to…
Ukraine agrees to US plan for 30-day ceasefire with Russia
Ukraine has agreed to an American proposal for an immediate 30-day truce in the war against Russia. Kyiv’s decision to…
Kyle Clifford should have been forced into the dock
There are few crimes as heinous as those committed by Kyle Clifford. The 26-year old former soldier raped and murdered…
Who becomes a Labour politician to slash benefits?
If you are an idler sponging off the state, you have every excuse to feel cheated. Throughout his years in…
