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Ed West

How bad will Rachel Reeves’s Budget be?

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Michael Simmons

Crunch time / Will Rachel Reeves’s two Budget gambles pay off?

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James Kirkup

Real life / Why is Westminster Cathedral leaving Jesus in the dark?

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Melissa Kite

The turf / Only the Tote can save British racing

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Charlie Brooks

Turf war / Labour’s eco-towns threaten our heritage

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Arabella Byrne

Toxic waste / It’s time to dispose of the Budget

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Tim Shipman

Ashes agony / Did the Aussies cheat?

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Graham Boynton

Benefits / The pointlessness of removing the two-child benefit cap

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Rosie Lewis

Budget chaos / Rachel Reeeves’s days are numbered

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Andrew Lilico

Live: OBR accidentally leaks Budget

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The Spectator

Watch: Badenoch eviscerates Rachel Reeves

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Steerpike

Badenoch’s PMQs attack ran out of steam

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Isabel Hardman

The Budget has created a £2 million house-price limit

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Matthew Lynn

Rachel Reeves’s Budget is a shambles

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Michael Simmons

Exclusive / Military chiefs go to war with Labour

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Tim Shipman

Two peers suspended over lobbying

To the House of Lords, where it transpires that two peers are to be suspended after they were deemed to have breached lobbying rules. Undercover...

yesterday 10

Steerpike

Starmer apologises over banned TikTok dance

Of all the things the public might think Prime Minister Keir Starmer should apologise for, a TikTok dance is probably not top of the list. Yet that...

yesterday 9

Steerpike

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress

As an American who respects the constitutional role and historical continuity of the British Crown, I view the recent congressional request to...

yesterday 20

Lee Cohen

Does Rachel Reeves really get more online abuse than most?

In politics, as in life, it helps to get your excuses in early. That presumably is why, ahead of tomorrow’s Budget, Keir Starmer has mounted a...

yesterday 20

Jimmy Nicholls

Any other business / Why has Peter Thiel dumped his AI stocks?

How, I wonder, did a shortlist of candidates to succeed Sir Mark Tucker as chairman of HSBC come into the public domain? The three names...

yesterday 10

Martin Vander Weyer

Children should be banned from pubs

Before I begin, let me say this: I like children. To my amazement, I even have two of my own. But do I think they should be allowed in pubs?...

yesterday 10

Arabella Byrne

Trigger warnings are out of control at the University of Essex

You don’t need a PhD to see that censorship thrives in universities. In the past few weeks alone, a professor has been banned from the University...

yesterday 10

Joanna Williams

World / Could Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?

For years, there was a broad consensus in Israel that there was no benefit to reintroducing the death penalty. But now, Prime Minister Benjamin...

yesterday 9

Yossi Melman

Gut feeling / Do supermarkets really make us sick?

I contemplated this piece over a bowl of porridge; not a ready-mix concoction but the raw stuff: porridge oats mixed with milk and water and eaten...

yesterday 9

Ross Clark

Rachel Reeves is running out of excuses

The Chancellor addressed her backbench troops last night, ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. Rachel Reeves’ remarks sought to impress upon her colleagues...

yesterday 10

James Heale

The problem with funky vicars

The Reverend Kate Bottley, the celebrity vicar who came to fame on Gogglebox, has a message for the nation. ‘The woman who goes skinny-dipping for...

yesterday 8

Gareth Roberts

Africa / Nigeria’s mass school abduction is its worst yet – but the West doesn’t seem to care

The kidnapping of over 300 students and teachers from a Catholic school by armed men in the Papiri area of central Nigeria is one of the worst mass...

yesterday 10

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

David Olusoga’s Empire exposes the BBC’s history problem

While the BBC’s mis-editing of Donald Trump’s words has dominated the headlines, less attention has been paid to another example of the...

yesterday 9

Lawrence Goldman

Is Reeves’s Budget a flop before it has even landed?

The Budget speech has no doubt been finalised. The red box has been dusted off. And the pie charts are ready to be released. Assuming Chancellor...

yesterday 9

Matthew Lynn

Half baked / When did bakeries develop literary pretensions?

I became sick of bakeries when I lived in Berlin. I alternated between a few of them, doing most of my work in a café-bakery in the then-trendy...

yesterday 9

Zoe Strimpel

Diary / I regret my intolerance over Brexit

Cannabis smoke lingering along the sidewalks of Washington D.C. was the most palpable fruit of liberty since my last visit to the US capital. I’m...

yesterday 8

Anthony Seldon

The Spectator’s notes / What my pyjamas taught me about China

About seven years ago, I bought two pairs of pyjamas, one British, the other Chinese. At the time, they seemed of roughly similar quality, the...

yesterday 8

Charles Moore

The report that lays bare France’s Islamist networks

Bruno Retailleau, France’s former interior minister, has with his Senate group just published the toughest report on Islamism in a generation. They...

yesterday 30

James Tidmarsh

Make Gordon McKee a minister

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Stephen Daisley

Lammy to scrap jury trials in backlog crackdown

Under a shake-up of the legal system, it transpires that juries are to be scrapped in all cases except murder, rape and manslaughter. The majority...

yesterday 6

Steerpike

The BBC’s new Civilisations treats us like idiots

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Michael Day

Watch: Labour MP’s bizarre Putin warning

To the Commons, where this afternoon parliamentarians have spent some time discussing the G20 and Ukraine. The Prime Minister updated politicians...

yesterday 4

Steerpike

Removing jury trials is a democratic outrage

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Matthew Scott

‘Peace’ is just another ploy in Russia’s playbook

Predicting Russian behaviour is a fool’s errand. As a young ‘stringer’ in Kyiv during the dying months of the Soviet Union, I was bemused by the...

yesterday 20

Bob Seely

Only radical change can halve NHS waiting lists

A research letter in the Future Healthcare Journal, laying out the scale of performance failings in the NHS, has attracted a lot of attention...

yesterday 10

Druin Burch

No one wants to hear from the Tories

For a party long described as Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, the Conservatives have spent an astonishing amount of time recently...

yesterday 4

Joanna Marchong

Bad medicine / Why are we testing puberty blockers on children again?

Puberty blockers are powerful drugs with unproven benefits and significant risks. Those were not my words, they came from a statement by Dr Hilary...

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Debbie Hayton

Hell's kitchen / The rise of the performative chef

Let me introduce you to the performative chef. The performative chef is a man. He is between 23 and 29 years of age. Both of his arms are covered...

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Zak Asgard

No life / The art of having no friends

Apparently it’s easy to make money on YouTube by teaching a course in your specialism. Mine is having no friends. And I share my aversion to...

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Lloyd Evans

Philip Pullman is right: Oxford really is a ‘frustrating and irritating’ place

The vast acclaim that Sir Philip Pullman’s latest novel, The Rose Field, has received has cemented his status as one of Britain’s most successful...

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Alexander Larman

Star power / Are we finally about to crack fusion energy?

Imagine dropping a pea-sized capsule through a spherical chamber and hitting it with a colossal bolt of laser energy as it falls. If the capsule...

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Matt Ridley

War / A lethal standoff is playing out deep beneath Gaza

In 1929, René Magritte painted a picture that has since become iconic in both art and philosophy. The Treachery of Images depicts a finely detailed...

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Jonathan Sacerdoti

American revolution / How to save the King’s English

When a survey of 10,000 teachers revealed this month that Britain’s primary school pupils are increasingly relying on Americanisms (the Times front...

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Alec Marsh

Britain’s asylum crackdown is making Ireland panic

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood’s asylum shake-up has sent the Irish government into something approaching panic mode. The profound new measures,...

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In a state / Starmerism was always doomed to fail

Ed West

How bad will Rachel Reeves’s Budget be?

Michael Simmons

Crunch time / Will Rachel Reeves’s two Budget gambles pay off?

James Kirkup

Real life / Why is Westminster Cathedral leaving Jesus in the dark?

Melissa Kite

The turf / Only the Tote can save British racing

Charlie Brooks

Turf war / Labour’s eco-towns threaten our heritage

Arabella Byrne

Toxic waste / It’s time to dispose of the Budget

Tim Shipman

Ashes agony / Did the Aussies cheat?

Graham Boynton

Benefits / The pointlessness of removing the two-child benefit cap

Rosie Lewis

Budget chaos / Rachel Reeeves’s days are numbered

Andrew Lilico

Live: OBR accidentally leaks Budget

The Spectator

Watch: Badenoch eviscerates Rachel Reeves

Steerpike

Badenoch’s PMQs attack ran out of steam

Isabel Hardman

The Budget has created a £2 million house-price limit

Matthew Lynn

Rachel Reeves’s Budget is a shambles

Michael Simmons

Exclusive / Military chiefs go to war with Labour

Tim Shipman

Two peers suspended over lobbying

Steerpike

Starmer apologises over banned TikTok dance

Steerpike

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should ignore Congress

Lee Cohen

Does Rachel Reeves really get more online abuse than most?

Jimmy Nicholls

Any other business / Why has Peter Thiel dumped his AI stocks?

Martin Vander Weyer

Children should be banned from pubs

Arabella Byrne

Trigger warnings are out of control at the University of Essex

Joanna Williams

World / Could Israel bring back the death penalty for terrorists?

Yossi Melman

Gut feeling / Do supermarkets really make us sick?

Ross Clark

Rachel Reeves is running out of excuses

James Heale

The problem with funky vicars

Gareth Roberts

Africa / Nigeria’s mass school abduction is its worst yet – but the West doesn’t seem to care

Kunwar Khuldune Shahid

David Olusoga’s Empire exposes the BBC’s history problem

Lawrence Goldman

Is Reeves’s Budget a flop before it has even landed?

Matthew Lynn

Half baked / When did bakeries develop literary pretensions?

Zoe Strimpel

Diary / I regret my intolerance over Brexit

Anthony Seldon

The Spectator’s notes / What my pyjamas taught me about China

Charles Moore

The report that lays bare France’s Islamist networks

James Tidmarsh

Make Gordon McKee a minister

Stephen Daisley

Lammy to scrap jury trials in backlog crackdown

Steerpike

The BBC’s new Civilisations treats us like idiots

Michael Day

Watch: Labour MP’s bizarre Putin warning

Steerpike

Removing jury trials is a democratic outrage