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![]() Andrew TettenbornThe Spectator |
Hidden in the hot air of Angela Rayner’s devolution white paper published just before Christmas – there are promises, for example, to empower...
Labour’s election promise to respect Brexit and at the same time reset our relations with the EU was easy to make. Keir Starmer must have realised...
Stories of two-tier justice are back. On Monday, Victoria Thomas Bowen, the model who doused Nigel Farage with milkshake on the Clacton campaign...
There was nothing seriously unexpected in Rachel Reeves’s speech today to EU finance ministers. Most of it was non-committal flim-flam: ‘I believe...
It is clear who is the unnamed target of Labour’s rule change over political nominations to the House of Lords. When two bright but relatively...
There was something predictable in the government’s agreement last week to accept defeat in the Belfast High Court. The overtly republican Irish...
It’s grim up north in Scotland, we’re told. A mission from Edinburgh has produced a report about the woes of life in the Highlands and Islands,...
Education Minister Bridget Phillipson wants to make our schools engines of ambition and social mobility. Good for her. Unfortunately, some of the...
It’s police overreach season again on free speech and non-crime hate incidents, or NCHIs. On Remembrance Day morning, we had Essex police’s...
There’s a beguiling simplicity to the idea behind Kim Leadbetter’s Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, published yesterday. If someone is...
Universities in the UK desperately needed Bridget Phillipson’s announcement this afternoon of a rise in home tuition fees. They will now rise from...
The East Riding of Yorkshire is flat, prosperously agricultural and slightly off the beaten track. Deeply conservative, it isn’t the place you...
The firearms officer Martyn Blake was cleared of murdering Chris Kaba this week. Kaba was a serious wrong ‘un: a violent gangland enforcer with a...
Adam Smith-Connor was this week convicted of a heinous offence, slapped with a conditional discharge and a costs order for £9,000. The actual crime...
In Labour’s manifesto this year, Keir Starmer cannily sought to reassure any Brexiteers out there by ruling out a return to the EU single market....