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Labour’s Chinese takeaway

23 November 2024 9:00 am

Labour’s war with Elon Musk

16 November 2024 9:00 am

The problem with Dawn Butler

9 November 2024 9:00 am

We hear a lot about white supremacy these days. But for some reason we rarely hear about black supremacy. I…

Inside Kemi Badenoch’s first shadow cabinet

9 November 2024 9:00 am

At her first shadow cabinet as Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch walked into the room and declared that there were ‘still…

Labour’s war on the countryside

9 November 2024 9:00 am

Two miles from where I am writing, the neighbouring village is plastered with posters demanding ‘Say No to Pylons’. The…

Portrait of the week: Tax rises, a cheddar heist and snail delivery man gets slapped

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Home Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, repeatedly mentioning an inherited ‘£22 billion black hole’, raised taxes by £40…

Portrait of the week: Budget leaks, prisoners released and Israel kills Hamas leader

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Home Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was expected to freeze tax thresholds in the Budget on 30 October,…

Does Wes Streeting’s ten-year NHS plan amount to anything?

20 October 2024 10:12 pm

The Health Secretary is making a big fanfare about a cash boost in the Budget and a new plan to…

Labour were right to protect Taylor Swift

14 October 2024 5:00 pm

Still making headlines, it seems, is one of the more trivial scandals to have dogged the Labour government in its…

Starmer’s first 100 days: the commentariat turns

13 October 2024 3:07 am

Oh dear. Keir Starmer today marks his first 100 days in 10 Downing Street, but he has little cause for…

Can Morgan McSweeney reboot the government machine?

12 October 2024 9:00 am

The Queen is dead: long live the King. This week brought an end to Downing Street’s unhappy experiment in dyarchy.…

The joy of opposition

5 October 2024 9:00 am

By rights, the Conservative party conference in Birmingham ought to have been a funereal affair. It was the first time…

In defence of Rosie Duffield

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Rosie Duffield’s magnificently rancorous resignation of the Labour whip has reduced the number of MPs on the government side who…

Inside Labour’s love affair with Lord Alli

28 September 2024 9:00 am

As a peer who hates publicity, Lord Alli might have been expected to dodge the Labour conference – given the…

The best podcasts to fall asleep to

28 September 2024 9:00 am

‘Yous!’ a train cleaner in rubber gloves says as we arrive at Liverpool Lime Street. ‘What are yous doing here?’…

Richard Burgon fails to draw a crowd at Labour conference

22 September 2024 10:24 pm

Oh for the days of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’. It only seems like yesterday that the likes of John McDonnell and…

Nigel’s next target: Reform has Labour in its sights

21 September 2024 9:00 am

At this weekend’s Reform conference in Birmingham, the opening speech will be given by a man who wasn’t even a…

Labour vs labour: how can the government claim to be promoting growth?

21 September 2024 9:00 am

Growth, growth, growth: that was what Keir Starmer told us would be his government’s priority in his first press conference…

Is Gordon Brown back?

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Last week, there was a surprise visitor to the Treasury: Gordon Brown. The former prime minister and chancellor secretly returned…

Portrait of the week: State pension to rise, prisoners released early and a new owner for The Spectator

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Home The government won by 348 to 228 a Commons vote on limiting the winter fuel allowance for pensioners to those…

Letters: A cautionary lesson for England’s schools

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Lessons to learn Sir: Your leading article ‘Requires improvement’ (7 September) rightly raised concerns that a curriculum review in England…

The ‘British Muslim patriot’ on a mission to get Farage into No. 10

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Few people had heard of Zia Yusuf before he spoke at Reform’s final campaign rally in Birmingham. But after a…