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Ameer KotechaThe Spectator |
Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been given by the Scottish government, the NHS and local councils to a charity which helps trans women – i.e....
You get two impressions of Britain at the moment. First, that nothing works. Second, that the state is not on the side of those who try to work for a...
It is hard not to grin. Our lawyerly soon-to-be-former Prime Minister, Mr Process, stands accused of, er, failing to follow the proper process. Olly...
At the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks memorial lecture at the LSE this week, David Miliband ‘broke his silence’ after days of intense speculation that he...
The revelation in The Spectator last week that the Treasury is more concerned with boosting its DEI outcomes than hiring people who can count, was –...
At the entrance to the hangar-like Olympia conference centre is a huge, framed drawing, showing a design for an imagined triumphal arch. It depicts...
Keir Starmer's resignation will dominate the headlines, and Westminster will obsess over his successor, the prospect of an early general election...
There were lots of contested takeaways from the Makerfield by-election this week. But the one thing that seems incontrovertible is that almost...
Ten years ago, I found myself accompanying the then Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign Office to the Locarno room in the department’s palatial...
Henry Nowak’s murder, news of which quickly crossed the pond, has now morphed into a diplomatic row. The US State Department posted on X that:...
Labour used to be able to rely on the support of union members. Not any longer. Reform and Labour are tied at 28 per cent among union members,...
On one level it’s not exactly surprising. The idea that large parts of the civil service would treat a Farage government with horror and seek to...
When I first walked through the grand arches of King Charles Street in 2015, the Foreign Office and Whitehall felt a place of stable continuity....
It’s fair to say the reset speech didn’t quite do the trick. As the number of Labour MPs calling on the Prime Minister to step down steadily grows...
As the scale of Reform’s success in the local elections became clear, MP Danny Kruger noted, ‘What is happening is seismic…The public have...
As the scale of Reform’s success in the local elections became clear, MP Danny Kruger noted, ‘What is happening is seismic…The public have...
As the scale of Reform’s success in the local elections became clear, MP Danny Kruger noted, ‘What is happening is seismic…The public have...
In P.G. Wodehouse’s Cocktail Time (1958) the characters are frequently ‘lapping up martinis like a vacuum cleaner’. Wodehouse was living...
The King’s state visit to the US has been a triumph. His Majesty managed to put most of Capitol Hill into a state of giddy excitement, helped along...
The ‘tide may be turning’ on shoplifting according to our ever-hopeful Prime Minister – despite the fact shoplifting offences have soared by 133...
There has been quite enough talk of process. In the past few days, we have heard more about vetting forms, meeting minutes and stultifyingly boring...
Of all the politicians to take up arms against Sir Humphrey, Keir Starmer is the most unlikely. After all, this dream-free embodiment of bland...
Walker Smith, 54, who has worked as a store assistant at Waitrose for the past 17 years, has been fired for trying to stop a shoplifter. This is the...