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Well chaps, it’s over. Reform have buckled under the pressure. The towel has been thrown in. The party in teal are walking away from it all, having...
It’s hard to keep up with what might kill us first. A week ago, the tech-bros were competing to tell us that AI might wipe out humanity within a...
Pakistani Christians could face renewed persecution following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s decision to withdraw an honour to a leading Muslim...
As if MPs haven’t wasted enough time on Gaza, a select committee has found another pressing national crisis to investigate: why Britain is so crap...
Just a fortnight after the Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, two more state elections are taking place in...
Canada and the European Union are on the path to forming some sort of a political relationship that no one can figure out. The terms and conditions...
EU President Ursula von der Leyen has offered Canada ‘associate membership’ of the EU. No one knows what ‘associate membership’ means and the...
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney says he welcomes the EU’s ‘ambition’ for Canada to become an associate member. He should drop these...
Jockey Saffie Osborne has the world at her feet. She’s talented, young, attractive, personable, ambitious, well-connected and much more. I have no...
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It is raining at last, thank God, and the sound of thunder cascades across the heavens like some kind of conversation. This...
Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent than giving it to a political party....
During the 1980s my friend Canon Brian Brindley was arguably the ‘highest’ clergyman in the Church of England, celebrating Solemn Masses of rococo...
At the tail end of the summer holiday, my son and I had a shouting match in King’s Cross station. For more than three hours on the train south from...
Would renaming the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero really make it easier for the government to persuade the public of the benefits of net...
It’s a shame that Jane Austen can’t profit from selling the adaptation rights to her novels. In her own lifetime, she made but a modest...
Copenhagen’s obsession with cycling is evident from the moment you arrive. Walking out of the cavernous Central Station, on my first visit to the...
Watching the proceedings of the Scottish Parliament, a thought often occurs: if these people won elections, imagine the runners up. The runner-up to...
First, the good news. The Commons select committee on energy security and net zero has called on the government to drop net zero. Now the bad news:...
Zack Polanski was left red-faced at City Hall this morning after Lord Khan of Tooting answered a question from the Green leader in Urdu. In a...
So now we know what happens if you refuse to prostrate yourself before the Gaza cult. If you politely decline wearing the keffiyeh like a holy shroud...
Appointments to the shadow cabinet recall Ernest Shackleton’s job advert to cross the Antarctic. ‘Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages,...
The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress appears to be a man of many talents – at least in his own estimation. Paul Nowak yesterday...
The Bank of England has just voted six-three to hold interest rates at 3.75 per cent, a decision that makes Britain’s central bank an outlier...
As soon as news broke that copies of Charles Spencer’s memoir about the late Princess of Wales, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, had been stolen from...
To lose one Middle East sea lane vital for the global economy may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. As every armchair...
It’s not often that we get a ringside seat to the Birth of a Narrative. Usually, those overseeing the parturition are careful to manage the event...
Throw out your grandfather clocks, the naysayers said, and banish your commodes to the scrapheap and junkshop. Brown furniture – invented in the...
The Piddington result is in. Ninety-two per cent of the voters in the tiny Oxfordshire village have voted to secede from the United Kingdom – 285...
Every day, I play a game that I call “How Low Can He Go?” Despite the simple premise, it’s harder to win than you might think, since Donald...
Earlier this summer, I sat barefoot in Berkeley with a dozen aspiring “geopolitical traders,” learning how to make money from war. We were at a...
Recently I started logging in to Facebook again, mostly to do the depressing thing of posting photos of my children to my late father’s wall. One of...
We are often told these days, most recently in James Marriott’s much talked about book The New Dark Ages, that the world has a problem with reading....
You may have seen clips of the recent Chinese robot Olympics, where a bipedal, humanoid robot beat Usain Bolt’s 100-meter sprint record by almost a...
Midway through a podcast appearance, my host became distracted by a flurry of social media posts claiming that he was a paid agent of the Israeli...
When you title your book Win Every Argument, you create the very definition of a hostage to fortune. So it’s especially unfortunate that Mehdi...
Exciting news: free speech is high-status again. The decision by the organisers of Ed Sheeran’s US tour to drop anti-Israel rapper Macklemore is...
As I sat down to write this article, an artist friend phoned me to deliver a pithy but convincing defence of public art: it exists, he said, to...
Phrenology, eh? It’s cobblers, plainly, but Robert Schumann didn’t know that and his biographer Martin Geck tells how in 1846, near Dresden, he...
The Children by Lucy Kirkwood is a life-or-death drama about three ageing boffins invited to fix a broken atomic power station and save Britain from...
‘Old age’, Bette Davis once reportedly remarked, ‘ain’t no place for sissies’ and neither is Queen at Sea. It’s a film that unflinchingly...
Steven McRae ranked for a decade as the Royal Ballet’s star virtuoso – a fearless technician of dazzling precision, speed, stamina and verve....
It’s a measure of Geese’s rise – their flight? – that, on Thursday night, the social media accounts of End of the Road were receiving requests...
In advance, I confidently imagined that 70 Up would be the big programme of the week. In the event, it rather disappointingly felt more like the...
This is how I became a Canadian nationalist. I did it on the rebound. I never wanted to, and it is a strange experience to find myself pounding the...
Read the Thirlwall report on the neonatal deaths at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and two kinds of culpability emerge. Lucy Letby stands convicted...
In the heart of Bloomsbury, deep in the bowels of the UCL geography department, down corridors floored in institutional linoleum, sticky and scuffed...
Imagine, if you will, King Charles in the Deep South. The aesthetics are easy enough: it doesn’t take much to picture His Majesty in crumpled linen,...
I don’t pry too much into the online life of my son. At 13, Sam is a good boy. He does well at school, eats his veg, loves his mum and captains his...
I’m trying to work out what the new rules are in this country. I think I’m getting there, though any Spectator readers who can assist might help...
Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent than giving it to a political party....
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