The nuclear flaw in Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal
The government’s treaty with Mauritius to hand over sovereignty of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), including the joint UK/US…
Matt Goodwin unveiled as Reform MP hopeful
Andy Burnham may not be standing – but at least we know one man who is. With only five weeks…
When immigration worked for the nation, not the United Nations
They marched in their tens of thousands, a river of discontent flowing through the heart of Australia’s cities on its…
Of course babies aren’t born with a ‘gender identity’
‘It’s a girl!’ New parents, after a long labour or at a mid-pregnancy scan, take huge joy from discovering the…
GDP per capita is the fairest way to decide pay rises for MPs
Hiking MPs’ pay is very much in vogue among certain sections of the SW1 chattering classes. The argument runs like…
Why Jew-hate doesn’t add up
Life expectancy across Europe is 81 years. An 81-year-old European dying today would have been born on the day Auschwitz…
Are the Nationals an equal Coalition partner?
Give it a couple of weeks, or more precisely, a couple of pay cycles, and the National Party will be…
The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob
A basic question all Americans should ask themselves before they draw any other conclusions about events in Minneapolis is this:…
We’ll miss the bar chains when they’re gone
The news that the Revolution chain of bars has gone into administration may not immediately fill Spectator readers with sorrow.…
Asylum hotels aren’t the problem
This government knows that if it doesn’t turn the tide on migration it is destined for electoral oblivion. The Home…
Could the Japanese economy crash out?
Is the Japanese economy about to crash? This once unthinkable prospect is now very much thinkable as concerns grow, and…
The joy of Labour psychodrama
As the three-word headline, ‘STARMER BLOCKS BURNHAM’ smashed on to our phone screens on Saturday, I felt I could almost…
Ed Miliband is killing Aberdeen
‘It’s Scotland’s oil,’ cried the slogan of the SNP in the 1970s when the party first began a serious drive…
What Keir Starmer should say to Xi Jinping
Keir Starmer is flying to China today with a delegation of business leaders in order to build ties with Beijing.…
How Israel did the impossible – and brought the hostages home
On 25 October 2023, speaking as Israel prepared to expand its ground campaign in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
Lublin’s lost Jews are a warning to Europe
Going to Lublin in eastern Poland is a bit like visiting Pompeii. The city’s old town – compact, intricate, fetchingly tarnished…
How to make sense of Minnesota
The fights in Minnesota aren’t just between the protesters and ICE, they also seem to be between President Trump and…
Melania the movie will send Bluesky ballistic
As America stayed inside at the weekend, terrified and frozen, the White House hosted its own movie night: the first-ever…
How not to fix British art
Another day, another opinion on what’s wrong with the arts. This week we’ve got a report, ‘Class Ceiling’, by Manchester…
Inside Zack Polanski’s night in Heaven
On Sunday night, the Green party booked out the famed gay London nightclub, Heaven, for what they said was going…
