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The Guardian

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Britain’s Green party is playing with fire

A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in the “Green Party” originally referred...

28.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

The Green party are playing with fire in Gorton

A good pub quiz question in the year 2050 will go something like this: ‘True or false, the “green” in the “Green Party” originally referred...

26.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

Bonfire of the Vanities / The martyrdom of Chris Kaba

In The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s great satirical look at 1980s New York, a white Wall Street trader accidentally ends up in a hit and...

18.02.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

A short history of the New York Times being wrong about everything

23.01.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

Age limits / Keep children out of politics

05.01.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

Keep children out of politics

04.01.2026 10

The Spectator

Ed West

Age limits / Keep children out of politics

02.01.2026 10

The Spectator

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Keep children out of politics

01.01.2026 20

The Spectator

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In a state / Starmerism was always doomed to fail

26.11.2025 10

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A failed war / The case for narcotics licences

09.11.2025 10

The Spectator

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The case for narcotics licences

08.11.2025 10

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Free speech / Lucy Connolly is in prison because of her politics

20.05.2025 4

The Spectator

Ed West

Labour’s demographic crisis

30.04.2025 7

The Spectator

Ed West

America / Trump is going to give us a thousand years of woke

09.04.2025 5

The Spectator

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What really scares people about Adolescence

02.04.2025 4

The Spectator

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Why Britain isn’t standing up for Canada

03.03.2025 10

The Spectator

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Albion’s Seed / Why Elon Musk cares about Britain’s sinking reputation

Diaspora politics is a funny old thing, a form of loyalty that is often coloured by nostalgia and deeply unconnected with the reality back home. It...

06.01.2025 10

The Spectator

Ed West

Stuff of legends / The surprising truth about old myths

I visited Mycenae for the first time this autumn. While the ruins of classical Athens can seem almost familiar, the ancient hillfort of a millennia...

21.12.2024 7

The Spectator

Ed West

Stuff of legends / The surprising truth about old myths

I visited Mycenae for the first time this autumn. While the ruins of classical Athens can seem almost familiar, the ancient hillfort of a millennia...

18.12.2024 5

The Spectator

Ed West

Better believe it / Stuff of legends: the surprising truth about old myths

I visited Mycenae for the first time this autumn. While the ruins of classical Athens can seem almost familiar, the ancient hillfort of a millennia...

15.12.2024 7

The Spectator

Ed West