The great Australian shake-down

18 February 2026 9:48 am

Daylight robbery with a tax assessment

The truth about trans violence

18 February 2026 8:05 am

The latest “trans violence” was committed by a heterosexual man who went to a hockey game in Rhode Island and…

James Orr is Reform’s new Head of Policy

18 February 2026 6:00 am

It has been a busy few days for Reform UK. Having dominated the last summer recess, this week they are…

Is the war in Ukraine any closer to ending?

18 February 2026 5:10 am

Is the latest round of Russia-Ukraine peace talks, sponsored by the United States and currently under way in Geneva, likely…

Long may the Met’s phone theft crackdown continue

18 February 2026 4:15 am

I was in London recently carrying a simple piece of kit I never thought I would need: a lanyard tethering…

Keir Starmer doesn’t know how close his government is to collapse

18 February 2026 2:43 am

Today’s unemployment figures aren’t just a reminder of the mess the government has made of the jobs market with its…

The right isn’t ready for the impact of AI

18 February 2026 1:52 am

In the final scene of Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart explains to Ingrid Bergman why she’ll regret staying with him – ‘maybe…

The Commonwealth voting scandal

18 February 2026 12:03 am

Labour’s new Representation of the People Bill, introduced to Parliament last week, has drawn attention because it will give around…

The Spectator’s record subscriber numbers

17 February 2026 11:50 pm

Something remarkable is happening at the world’s oldest weekly magazine. After years of relatively flat subscriber numbers, The Spectator has surged…

Nigel Farage unveils his shadow cabinet

17 February 2026 11:48 pm

It is parliamentary recess and once again, Reform is making all the running. Having successfully rebuffed Labour’s plans to cancel…

Ed Miliband’s delusional energy deal with California

17 February 2026 11:24 pm

What a pair Ed Miliband and California governor Gavin Newsom make. Both seem to suffer from the delusion that they…

The Bezos-Musk rivalry and the changing power of media

17 February 2026 11:11 pm

Elon Musk knows something Jeff Bezos doesn’t. Each has had turns as the world’s richest man, and both are media…

How can one third of people end up dying in pain?

17 February 2026 10:57 pm

Recent research funded by the charity Marie Curie has discovered that each year in England around 170,000 people are suffering…

Safe search off…

17 February 2026 10:43 pm

There is no housing crisis for the rich

There goes the neighbourhood!

17 February 2026 9:34 pm

State government-sponsored development rush creating community tensions

Chagossians storm their islands

17 February 2026 8:30 pm

The Chagos deal is set to return to the House of Lords after recess. But a group of islanders are…

The Tories aren’t dead yet

17 February 2026 8:12 pm

In 1997 the doyen of Democrat political columnists in the US, E.J. Dionne, published They Only Look Dead. He argued…

Why unemployment is at a five-year high

17 February 2026 7:21 pm

Britain’s jobs market continues to struggle. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) this morning show that the…

Do Labour MPs even know what a leader looks like anymore?

17 February 2026 6:16 pm

Last week could have been worse for Sir Keir Starmer, but only because he remains Prime Minister – for the time being.…

We need a way to punish architects

17 February 2026 5:52 pm

I’ve got a new thriller out this week, under my pen name of S.K. Tremayne. I am pleased with the…

Robert Duvall was one of the Hollywood greats

17 February 2026 5:46 pm

The death of the actor Robert Duvall at the age of 95 – almost exactly a year after that of…

Don’t blame the ECHR for the migrant phone debacle

17 February 2026 5:00 pm

Yet another immigration and human rights story scandalised the right-leaning press yesterday. Thirty-odd arrivals who came by boat in 2020…

Angus Taylor should propose a Fairness Doctrine for Australia

17 February 2026 4:16 pm

Now it’s the conservatives turn to invoke a Fairness Doctrine

When was Western culture stolen?

17 February 2026 12:47 pm

What has happened to Western Civilisation? At what point did its moral and intellectual foundations begin to erode? How did…

Make Zionism a protected attribute

17 February 2026 10:47 am

By the rivers of Babylon… There we sat down Yeah, we wept When we remembered Zion. Increase of demonisation of…