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Tim Davie isn’t fit to lead the BBC

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Alfie Pearce-Higgins

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Dominic Selwood

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David Shipley

DVSA bosses celebrate ‘progress’ as car test waits worsen

The ability of Britain’s quangos to sugarcoat their rather unflattering performance figures will never fail to amaze Mr S. The Driver and Vehicle...

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Steerpike

Pet peeve / Dogs have no place at my table

I love dogs. I love lunching. I love seeing dogs in restaurants where I’m lunching. But one thing I don’t love one bit is a dog being brought to a...

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Julie Burchill

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show should have been axed long ago

Things are not going so well with left-wing comedian talk show hosts over the water. Last week came the news of the cancellation of The Late Show...

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When nurse Sandie Peggie complained about the presence of a trans-identifying man in the women’s changing room at Falkirk’s Victoria Hospital, she...

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Euan Mccolm

Still life / I’ve rekindled my love affair with England

Late spring. Sitting in the armchair in the living room, I was chilly and disconsolate. My middle daughter was seven-and-a-half months pregnant and...

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Catriona Olding

Stop the bots / Will AI kill off Captchas?

It was a line on Poker Face (the excellent US detective drama currently streaming on Now TV) that piqued my interest. Hunched over a laptop,...

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Robert Jackman

Art / The Alfred Hitchcock of British painting

Carel Weight, the inimitable painter of London life and landscape, was my godfather. I remember a clownish-faced elderly man with an air of mild...

yesterday 8

Ian Thomson

Can Wes Streeting avert the junior doctors’s strike?

In just a few days, doctors across England will stage strikes for five days. Hospitals are preparing for staff shortages from Friday until next...

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Lucy Dunn

Politics / Ex-Unite boss under fire over private jets and million-pound hotel project

Well, well, well. It would appear the former Unite the Union boss Len McCluskey is not immune to the temptation of free gifts. An internal report...

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Steerpike

Farage unveils first defection in Wales

This afternoon, Nigel Farage unveiled his party’s first defector in the Welsh parliament. Laura Anne Jones was first elected to the Senedd in 2003...

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James Heale

Emergency / Doctors’ strike on as Streeting fails to win over the BMA

Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are...

yesterday 1

Lucy Dunn

Ukraine / Zelensky's war on anti-corruption agencies is a disaster

Cries of ‘Shame!’ rang out in the Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, today as lawmakers from Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People Party, backed by...

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Owen Matthews

Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are under attack

The war for Ukraine’s future is being fought not just on the battlefield, but also within its democratic institutions. Today, one of those battles...

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Svitlana Morenets

Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon

When French General Bosquet watched the 600 men of the Light Brigade charge helplessly into the Russian heavy artillery at Balaclava he muttered...

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Madeline Grant

Farage is right: our police must be tougher

A few years ago, I was encouraged to apply for a role within the College of Policing for an advisory body on a revamped code of ethics for police...

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Ian Acheson

Why don’t we let Thames Water go bust?

Hurrah! We are going to get a new water regulator. Sir John Cunliffe’s independent water commission has recommended that Ofwat be abolished and...

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Ross Clark

Politics / The problem of striking a defence deal with the EU

The UK-EU summit in London in May was proclaimed as a ‘new chapter’ in the post-Brexit relationship. Only now are we finding out the true cost....

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Eliot Wilson

Arts / The joys of mudlarking

Imagine a London of the distant future. A mudlark combs through the Thames foreshore, looking for relics of the past. What would they find? A...

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Margaret Mitchell

Britain is broke

Britain is continuing to chuck billions onto our mounting pile of debt. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that...

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Michael Simmons

Politics / James Cleverly returns to Tory frontbench in shadow cabinet reshuffle

Former home secretary James Cleverly is expected to make a return to the Tory frontbench as Kemi Badenoch reshuffles her shadow cabinet. Cleverly...

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James Heale

Will one final push by Israel destroy Hamas?

For more than 650 days of war in Gaza, one swathe of territory remained mostly untouched by Israeli ground manoeuvres: the dense, urban core of the...

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Jonathan Sacerdoti

Wrong note / The BBC’s mistreatment of the Proms

The Proms – the BBC Proms, to stick a handle on its jug – remains a good deed in a naughty world. Eight weeks of orchestral music, mainly,...

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Michael Henderson

The real shock of the Tory reshuffle

Kemi Badenoch has saved the biggest news of the Tory reshuffle for last. This morning, the headlines were dominated by news of James Cleverly’s...

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James Heale

Enemy within / Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky

Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does not agree to...

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Owen Matthews

When will Miliband make up his mind on Mingyang?

Net Zero Secretary Ed Miliband is preparing to be grilled by the Energy Security and Net Zero Committee this afternoon – and Mr S has a question...

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Steerpike

The hypocrisy of Labour’s attacks on Reform’s net zero plans

The net zero lobby just gets sillier and sillier. According to energy minister Michael Shanks, Reform’s policy of abandoning net zero targets is an...

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Ross Clark

Package deal / The thrill of tracking parcels

Ordering things online can be a lottery. You can’t touch, smell or taste the product you’re buying, so it’s hard to know whether you’ll...

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Chas Newkey-Burden

Woke coke / Would you drink Gaza Cola?

Andy Warhol believed that the greatness of America lay in how the richest consumers bought exactly the same things as the poorest. ‘You can know...

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Andrew Watts

Confessions of a troublemaker / How I got under Macron’s skin

The journalist Jonathan Miller, a cherished Spectator contributor, died last week at his home in Occitanie, France. Below is an extract from the...

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Jonathan Miller

Fail / Labour’s end-of-year school report is dire

As we approach the end of a long, hot summer term, it is a good time to reflect on the state of schools after one year of this Labour government. I...

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David James

What Suella Braverman’s plan for quitting the ECHR gets right

This morning’s paper on leaving the ECHR from Suella Braverman and the Prosperity Institute doesn’t say much that hasn’t been said somewhere...

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Andrew Tettenborn

Why Britain shouldn’t recognise Palestine

There is increasing speculation that the UK will recognise a Palestinian state imminently, possibly in coordination with France. On this morning’s...

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Stephen Pollard

Wage war / The left-wing case for controlled immigration

Controlled immigration was once a left-wing cause. It was a basic tenet of trade unionism – not to mention economics – that the number of workers...

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Jonathan Hinder

Society / The ‘Gen Z stare’ is another act of teenage rebellion

The latest complaint made against Generation Z is that its members now frequently assume a blank, glassy-eyed expression of indifference and...

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Patrick West

Break point / Let’s slash the school summer holiday

There are three little words that strike horror into the heart of every parent of school-age children. They are the words that cause you to break...

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Alec Marsh

Formal complaint / Don’t call me ‘Mr’

‘Please call me Mark,’ I’ve always said to the teachers at my son’s school. ‘If you call me “Mr Mason” it makes me feel 85 – and if I call you “Mrs...

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Mark Mason

Lowe brands Farage a ‘stinking hypocrite’ over crime policies

Reform UK has dominated headlines this morning, as the party kick off their six-week campaign on crime. During a central London presser this...

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The trouble with Gillian Anderson

Alexander Larman

Television / Turgid, vacuous, portentous: The Sandman reviewed

James Delingpole

Sport / The sorry demise of Windies cricket

Roger Alton

Strikes / I work in the NHS: the government cannot accept doctors’ pay demands

Druin Burch

Health tourism / Could a secretive Swiss clinic cure my bad habits?

Jonathan Ray

Books / The enigma of Tiger Woods

John Niven

Cream of the crop / Bring back the milkman!

Rob Crossan

Tim Davie isn’t fit to lead the BBC

Hugh Thomson

Cut and dried / London is due a lido renaissance

Alfie Pearce-Higgins

Cabinet ministers urge Starmer to recognise Palestine

Steerpike

Cleverly refuses to back Badenoch on ECHR

Steerpike

RIP / Ozzy Osbourne, the accidental rock star

Dominic Selwood

Migrant protest / The women of Epping don’t need Tommy Robinson’s help

David Shipley

DVSA bosses celebrate ‘progress’ as car test waits worsen

Steerpike

Pet peeve / Dogs have no place at my table

Julie Burchill

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show should have been axed long ago

Gareth Roberts

Why won’t Anas Sarwar champion Sandie Peggie?

Euan Mccolm

Still life / I’ve rekindled my love affair with England

Catriona Olding

Stop the bots / Will AI kill off Captchas?

Robert Jackman

Art / The Alfred Hitchcock of British painting

Ian Thomson

Can Wes Streeting avert the junior doctors’s strike?

Lucy Dunn

Politics / Ex-Unite boss under fire over private jets and million-pound hotel project

Steerpike

Farage unveils first defection in Wales

James Heale

Emergency / Doctors’ strike on as Streeting fails to win over the BMA

Lucy Dunn

Ukraine / Zelensky's war on anti-corruption agencies is a disaster

Owen Matthews

Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are under attack

Svitlana Morenets

Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon

Madeline Grant

Farage is right: our police must be tougher

Ian Acheson

Why don’t we let Thames Water go bust?

Ross Clark

Politics / The problem of striking a defence deal with the EU

Eliot Wilson

Arts / The joys of mudlarking

Margaret Mitchell

Britain is broke

Michael Simmons

Politics / James Cleverly returns to Tory frontbench in shadow cabinet reshuffle

James Heale

Will one final push by Israel destroy Hamas?

Jonathan Sacerdoti

Wrong note / The BBC’s mistreatment of the Proms

Michael Henderson

The real shock of the Tory reshuffle

James Heale

Enemy within / Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky

Owen Matthews

When will Miliband make up his mind on Mingyang?

Steerpike

The hypocrisy of Labour’s attacks on Reform’s net zero plans