Remember when parties believed in first principles?
George Orwell’s exploration of language manipulation and newspeak finds a disturbing parallel in Australian politics. Orwell wrote extensively about the…
Why Putin is feeling more confident
At a recent closed-door session in Ukraine’s parliament, Kyrylo Budanov, the country’s spy chief, was asked how much longer Ukraine…
Rachel Reeves can’t ‘regulate for growth’
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are under pressure to reduce red tape in the…
Will Labour MPs back Rachel Reeves’s growth plan?
It’s ‘growth week’ in government, as the Chancellor Rachel Reeves attempts to convince sceptical business leaders, bankers and voters that…
Is the UK prepared to welcome one million migrants a year?
One million people will migrate to the UK every year this decade. The result: the UK population will grow by…
How DeepSeek can help Britain
Sometimes a new technology comes along that immediately shakes the world. The release this week of the new Chinese artificial…
Home Office: ‘two-tier’ police claims are an ‘extreme right-wing’ narrative
You can tell a government report has gone down badly when ministers are distancing themselves before it has been officially…
Councils shouldn’t be allowed to raise tax by 25%
It is easy enough to trace the point at which local authorities embarked on the sad, downwards journey which has…
Will Rachel Reeves walk the walk on going for growth?
On the face of it, the Chancellor’s big growth speech tomorrow could be one of this government’s most significant interventions…
The hypocrisy of Ed Miliband’s vanity photographer
Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, comes across as something of a political nerd, determined to bankrupt the country with his…
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Our nation stands at a crucial juncture as we approach the coming election. Later this year we will vote to…
Kim Leadbeater U-turns once again
Another week and another U-turn on Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill. The 23-man committee scrutinising the legislation is supposed to…
DeepSeek has brought China’s ‘Sputnik moment’
In the years since ChatGPT’s debut, the world of artificial intelligence development has been defined by a single obsession: scale.…
Syria feels close to a zone of anarchy
Travelling from Syria’s Highway 42, which runs from Tabqa to the city of Homs, you can see the corpse of…
Pensioners have never had it so good
British pensioners are wealthier than ever. New figures from the Office for National Statistics, analysed by The Spectator’s data hub, show pensioner…
The triumph of Otto Schenk
A long life well spent doing what we love is more than most of us can hope to get anywhere…
Farage must be prepared to pack the Lords
One thing that is absolutely vital for Reform UK to do before the next election is to write a comprehensive…
Enough is enough: Australian history must be protected
If a piece of Indigenous artwork or a sacred place is vandalised by an individual motivated by race, no one…
Not so Tame
It beggars belief and demonstrates an appalling lack of judgment that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is happy to entertain Grace…
Woke is trapped in political limbo
La Rochefoucauld was one of the great satirists in literature. His Maximes, written in the 17th Century, secured his place…
Bowen’s sabotage
A bloke called Arthur from Camp Mountain, a community of less that 1,500 people some 20kms northwest of Brisbane, has…
How to outsmart DeepSeek
For nearly a decade, the Chinese Communist Party has censored Winnie the Pooh, owing to internet memes comparing the slightly…
Ministers are clearly concerned about school reform row
You could tell from this afternoon’s Education Questions in the Commons that ministers are worried about the row over their…
Full list: Labour MPs who opposed Heathrow expansion
There are just two days to go until Rachel Reeves’ big growth speech. The Chancellor is expected to turn her…
Has DeepSeek popped the AI bubble?
The arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Canada in 2018, and the ensuing United States ban on…
