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Badenoch’s rope-a-dope is panicking Tories

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The Times

Fraser Nelson

Britain is decoupling from Europe’s decline

01.02.2025 10

The Times

Fraser Nelson

Tech titans point way to a bright-green future

24.01.2025 2

The Times

Fraser Nelson

Starmer must decide, is he politician or lawyer?

17.01.2025 0

The Times

Fraser Nelson

Starmer can combat Musk with cold hard facts

10.01.2025 2

The Times

Fraser Nelson

Angela Rayner needs to fight the real enemy in the battle for homes

13.12.2024 2

The Telegraph

Fraser Nelson

The sickness benefit trap

Now that I’m no longer editor of this magazine, I can admit that I spent the election night of 1997 cheering on Tony Blair. Reader, it gets worse....

28.11.2024 6

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Reflections on 15 years in the editor’s chair

Fraser Nelson has narrated this article for you to listen to. In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neil invited me to his villa in the Côte d’Azur...

03.10.2024 2

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Michael Gove is the new editor of The Spectator

It’s a time of new beginnings here at The Spectator after Sir Paul Marshall’s historic £100 million bid for the magazine. As we plan for further...

25.09.2024 20

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

The Spectator’s new owner – and new era

After a year-long auction drama that involved sheikhs and moguls and even ended up changing the law, The Spectator has a new owner. The financier...

10.09.2024 2

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

In defence of Douglas Murray

Even by its own standards, Twitter has been an asylum of late, with a lynch mob going after our associate editor Douglas Murray. An interview he...

13.08.2024 20

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Politics / Reeves is right to cut the ‘winter fuel’ bung

A millionaire I know has a tradition every year: he buys a bottle of vintage wine with his Winter Fuel Payment and invites friends to drink it. His...

29.07.2024 5

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Is Rachel Reeves about to make the same mistake as Liz Truss?

How much can Rachel Reeves be trusted? A Chancellor’s credibility counts for a lot with the markets who are asked to lend HM Government tens of...

28.07.2024 4

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Labour announces ‘fundamental’ welfare reform

The battle over the two-child benefit cap is a small taste of what awaits Labour. Liz Kendall has inherited a welfare crisis with the number on...

23.07.2024 2

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson

Britain is still the world’s most successful multi-faith democracy

The swearing-in ceremonies in parliament this week have been rare in that more of them are filmed, posted on social media – and together, give us a...

12.07.2024 5

The Spectator

Fraser Nelson