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Ameer Kotecha

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We need a crackdown on crackpot charities

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....

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Ameer Kotecha

Keir Starmer leaves the country in a terrible state

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...

20.07.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

The danger of the Olly Robbins legal challenge

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...

14.07.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

David Miliband would be a disastrous foreign secretary

At the Rabbi Jonathan Sacks memorial lecture at the LSE this week, David Miliband ‘broke his silence’ after days of intense speculation that he...

12.07.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

The civil service’s war on expertise

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 –...

07.07.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Farage and Kemi’s pitch for conservative hearts and minds

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...

28.06.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

A new Prime Minister can’t succeed without fixing the broken civil service

Keir Starmer's resignation will dominate the headlines, and Westminster will obsess over his successor, the prospect of an early general election...

26.06.2026 20

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Why Starmer has been such a failure

There were lots of contested takeaways from the Makerfield by-election this week. But the one thing that seems incontrovertible is that almost...

21.06.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Kemi Badenoch’s equality reforms don’t go far enough

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...

10.06.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

J.D. Vance is right to defend the anger over Henry Nowak’s death

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:...

06.06.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

Why union members turned their backs on Labour – and switched to Reform

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,...

03.06.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

The Blob is already getting ready to take down Reform

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...

25.05.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

A Prime Minister on borrowed time cannot run the country

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....

12.05.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

Keir Starmer’s ‘chaos’ hypocrisy

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...

12.05.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

The simple truth at the heart of Reform UK’s success

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...

11.05.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

Priorities / The simple truth at the heart of Reform’s success

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...

09.05.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

The simple truth at the heart of Reform’s success

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...

09.05.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

The martini is making a comeback

In P.G. Wodehouse’s Cocktail Time (1958) the characters are frequently ‘lapping up martinis like a vacuum cleaner’. Wodehouse was living...

04.05.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

HMS Trump and the art of a diplomatic gift

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...

02.05.2026 20

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Ameer Kotecha

This is no way to stop the scourge of shoplifting

The ‘tide may be turning’ on shoplifting according to our ever-hopeful Prime Minister – despite the fact shoplifting offences have soared by 133...

28.04.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

Keir Starmer has been brutally exposed

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...

22.04.2026 40

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Ameer Kotecha

Starmer can’t blame the civil service for the Mandelson fiasco

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...

21.04.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

This is why shoplifting is rife in Britain

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...

07.04.2026 30

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Ameer Kotecha

The scourge of London’s chicken shops

25.07.2025 40

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Ameer Kotecha

Grape Britain: English wine is having its moment in the sun

20.06.2025 30

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Ameer Kotecha

Changing tastes / Is the Lake District still as Wainwright described it?

16.06.2025 40

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Ameer Kotecha

Flying has lost its charm

30.05.2025 40

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Ameer Kotecha

The Lord of the Rings gave me my moral compass

09.05.2025 40

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Ameer Kotecha

The reinvention of limoncello

02.05.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha