What Lego taught me about my own mediocrity
Lego – I can’t bring myself to capitalise it more than once – was born today in 1958, when it…
The public keep being kept in the dark about asylum crime
As long as Britain’s official orthodoxy remains that diversity is our ‘strength’, will the authorities ever be straight with the public…
Why the crashes won’t stop me from using Spanish trains
I am sitting in the nose of a high-speed AVE train from Madrid to Barcelona and the speedometer shoots up…
English protestors in Calais are the left’s useful idiots
Two British men were arrested by French police in Calais on Sunday night. In a statement the Pas-de-Calais prefecture said…
Flag-burning justifies audits of funding for activist groups
The evidence of disadvantage in Indigenous communities throughout the world is overwhelming. There ought to be funding for programs designed…
Washington is in a deep freeze
As the Potomac ices over for the first time in decades, Washington is in a deep freeze. Democrats are about…
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.…
