Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform

Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has defected to Reform...

yesterday 6

Steerpike

Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

Jordan Bardella has been physically attacked twice over the past five days. Flour was thrown over him at an agricultural fair in Burgundy, then...

yesterday 30

James Tidmarsh

Herzog Park / Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city

Dublin’s councillors have seen sense – for now. They were due to vote today on a proposal to rename the city’s Herzog Park. Chaim Herzog – the...

yesterday 30

Rory Hanrahan

Asking price / Would you pay for your office Christmas party?

If Christmas is a time for giving then it seems the message isn’t getting through to nearly enough office managers. For the umpteenth year running,...

yesterday 20

Rob Crossan

Weapons of war / Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron

Emmanuel Macron welcomed Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky to Paris this morning to discuss ‘the conditions for a just and lasting peace’....

yesterday 10

Gavin Mortimer

Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians

Pope Leo XIV is visiting Turkey and Lebanon on what is his first trip abroad since being elected in May. These are unusual destinations for a first...

yesterday 10

Daniel Thorpe

Economics / What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?

During last week’s excruciating Oval Office make-nice between an insultingly buddy-buddy American President and a fraudulently obsequious New York...

yesterday 9

Lionel Shriver

Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn

I’ll fight you if you contradict my assertion that The Producers is the funniest film ever made. It’s celluloid perfection. And the musical – now...

yesterday 9

Stephen Pollard

Books / Witches, dragons and the Terrible Deev: a choice of this year’s children’s books

Now here’s a combination you never thought you’d see, not least because one of them is dead: Maurice Sendak and Stephen King. But there they are in...

yesterday 8

Melanie Mcdonagh

Film star / A Room with a View is the greatest period drama ever made

It may come as surprise to discover that A Room with a View, the celebrated Merchant-Ivory adaption of the E.M. Forster novel, is 40 this month....

yesterday 9

Alec Marsh

Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?

Lara Brown has narrated this article for you to listen to. The term ‘spinster’ doesn’t seem to scare young women like it once might have. In...

yesterday 8

Lara Brown

Artificial irrelevance / The march of the useless machines

In search of coffee on my way to work the other day, I stopped short mid-way into a branch of a popular coffee shop when I noticed the digital...

yesterday 7

Naomi Firsht

Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?

As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his disgrace is complete. In...

yesterday 6

Alexander Larman

Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’

Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour early. This...

yesterday 6

James Heale

OBR probe reveals leak had happened before

yesterday 1

Steerpike

The day net zero died

yesterday 1

Ross Clark

Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman

yesterday 1

James Heale

Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog

yesterday 1

Stephen Daisley

Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing

yesterday 1

David Shipley

Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh

All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor Rachel Reeves and her autumn...

yesterday 1

Steerpike

Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

You can always tell someone is in trouble when the Prime Minister calls an emergency press conference. A combined force of black cats and magpies...

yesterday 1

Madeline Grant

Should the police use facial recognition on children?

Should cops spy on kids? The revelation that police are including surveillance of young people in their expanding use of live facial recognition...

yesterday 1

Ian Acheson

Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10 Christmas bonus....

previous day 50

Charles Amos

Payday / Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

This week, 17.5 million people on various benefits including the state pension and disability living allowance will receive a £10 Christmas bonus....

previous day 50

Charles Amos

Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man

As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Donald Trump’s peace plan next week, leaked recordings of a conversation with...

previous day 10

Mark Galeotti

John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

John Lewis’s new ‘heirloom splendour’ Christmas range features baubles that mimic a miniature vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, TV – permitted its...

previous day 10

Claire Jackson

The art of owning up

Though Rebecca Culley is obviously a wrong ’un – having stolen £90,000 from her dear old gramps while pretending to care for him and only spend a...

previous day 10

Julie Burchill

Hitler and Churchill: the artists at war

Winston Churchill and his arch enemy Adolf Hitler didn’t have a lot in common, but one passion they did share was painting: both the heroic wartime...

previous day 10

Nigel Jones

Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget

The Budget is out and, as expected, its measures include the removal of the two-child benefit cap, along with tax rises of £26 billion. Today,...

previous day 10

Joe Bedell-Brill

For all Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials, this is just the beginning

Four days after a Budget is usually the time when it starts to unravel. Some within Labour see it as a victory of sorts for Rachel Reeves that, so...

previous day 10

James Heale

Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity

Last year I visited Lincoln for the first time. It’s difficult to resist the elevated beauty and dominant cathedral, but also hard to avoid the...

previous day 10

The Reverend Michael Coren

The lost world of the British sex comedy

Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she was the ...

previous day 10

Paul Burke

Mary Millington / The lost world of the British sex comedy

Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she was the ...

previous day 10

Paul Burke

Blood libel / Anti-Semitism still lurks in Christianity’s shadow

Last year I visited Lincoln for the first time. It’s difficult to resist the elevated beauty and dominant cathedral, but also hard to avoid the...

previous day 20

The Reverend Michael Coren

Now the cabinet turn on Reeves

Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled the country about the...

previous day 10

Steerpike

The glory of gravy

In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, when Ben Gunn is found by Jim Hawkins, sunburnt and wide-eyed after three years of being marooned on...

previous day 20

Olivia Potts

Carry on romping / The lost art of the British sex comedy

Today, would have been the 80th birthday of the long-forgotten actress named Mary Millington. Blonde, petite and delicately beautiful, she was the ...

previous day 10

Paul Burke

Cheap nor cheerful / John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

John Lewis’s new ‘heirloom splendour’ Christmas range features baubles that mimic a miniature vacuum cleaner, sewing machine, TV – permitted its...

previous day 10

Claire Jackson

Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference

After two days of discord and division, Your Party has voted and it finally has a name – Your Party. This afternoon, 37 per cent of members chose...

previous day 20

James Heale

Park politics / Ireland wants you to forget Chaim Herzog

Now Ireland is erasing its Jewish history. This week Dublin City Council will vote on a proposal to change the name of Herzog Park in the south of...

previous day 10

Brendan O’Neill

Secret weapon / Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man

As Moscow and Washington prepare for talks on the latest version of Donald Trump’s peace plan next week, leaked recordings of a conversation with...

previous day 5

Mark Galeotti

The inconvenient Indian / The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former...

saturday 20

Jane Stannus

Crime and punishment / There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder, manslaughter, rape and cases...

saturday 20

Andrew Tettenborn

Common culture / Why the BBC keeps on blundering

The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it won’t be long before the next blunder. The...

saturday 10

Theo Hobson

The downfall of Canada’s most influential ‘indigenous’ man

It’s an awkward time in the upper echelons of the Canadian cultural establishment. It’s come to light that influential indigenous author and former...

saturday 20

Jane Stannus

Radiohead are joyless

Last week a Radiohead-head friend offered me a ticket for the last of their run of shows at London’s O2 Arena. The poor, deluded fool had paid...

saturday 4

James Innes-Smith

We’ll miss juries when they’re gone

At the dawn of my stellar journalistic career I served for two years as Crown Court correspondent of the Cambridge Evening News, and every working...

saturday 3

Nigel Jones

Claude Lanzmann would despair of today’s Europe

The late Claude Lanzmann, director of the monumental Shoah – the nine-and-a-half hour documentary about the Holocaust, released in 1985 and widely...

saturday 5

Robin Ashenden

There are some crimes where only a jury can ensure justice

David Lammy’s plans to prune the right to trial by jury are certainly drastic. Juries would remain only for murder, manslaughter, rape and cases...

saturday 3

Andrew Tettenborn

Why the BBC keeps on blundering

The dust is settling on the BBC’s latest crisis over its sloppy editing of a Donald Trump video, but it won’t be long before the next blunder. The...

saturday 10

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Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform

Steerpike

Violence is being normalised against the National Rally

James Tidmarsh

Herzog Park / Dublin is quietly becoming a Jew-free city

Rory Hanrahan

Asking price / Would you pay for your office Christmas party?

Rob Crossan

Weapons of war / Why the prospect of peace in Ukraine is troubling Macron

Gavin Mortimer

Pope Leo’s visit to Turkey comes at an uncertain time for the country’s Christians

Daniel Thorpe

Economics / What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?

Lionel Shriver

Your Party’s implosion almost makes me feel sorry for Jeremy Corbyn

Stephen Pollard

Books / Witches, dragons and the Terrible Deev: a choice of this year’s children’s books

Melanie Mcdonagh

Film star / A Room with a View is the greatest period drama ever made

Alec Marsh

Wed flag / Are you too cool for marriage?

Lara Brown

Artificial irrelevance / The march of the useless machines

Naomi Firsht

Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew’s last title?

Alexander Larman

Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’

James Heale

OBR probe reveals leak had happened before

Steerpike

The day net zero died

Ross Clark

Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman

James Heale

Ireland should venerate Chaim Herzog

Stephen Daisley

Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing

David Shipley

Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh

Steerpike

Keir Starmer’s Budget defence has surely doomed Rachel Reeves

Madeline Grant

Should the police use facial recognition on children?

Ian Acheson

Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

Charles Amos

Payday / Pensioners don’t need a £10 Christmas bonus

Charles Amos

Inside the mind of Putin’s real hatchet man

Mark Galeotti

John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

Claire Jackson

The art of owning up

Julie Burchill

Hitler and Churchill: the artists at war

Nigel Jones

Sunday shows round-up: Reeves denies misleading voters before Budget

Joe Bedell-Brill

For all Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials, this is just the beginning

James Heale

Anti-Semitism still lurks in the shadows of Christianity

The Reverend Michael Coren

The lost world of the British sex comedy

Paul Burke

Mary Millington / The lost world of the British sex comedy

Paul Burke

Blood libel / Anti-Semitism still lurks in Christianity’s shadow

The Reverend Michael Coren

Now the cabinet turn on Reeves

Steerpike

The glory of gravy

Olivia Potts

Carry on romping / The lost art of the British sex comedy

Paul Burke

Cheap nor cheerful / John Lewis’s Christmas decorations are its tackiest yet

Claire Jackson

Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference