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Can Reform reform?

Can Reform reform?

Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent than giving it to a political party....

yesterday 10

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Politics / Can Reform reform?

Politics / Can Reform reform?

Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent than giving it to a political party....

previous day 10

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Politics / Can Reform reform?

Politics / Can Reform reform?

Of all the uses to which Ben Delo and Christopher Harborne might put their money, there are few more innocent than giving it to a political party....

thursday 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Revenge of the Blob: good teachers are under siege

Jolyon Maugham has a point. There is a need for an inquiry in the aftermath of Jason Arday’s tragic death. But, not for the first time, the Good Law...

27.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

To be a Spectator reader was to love Rod

Since becoming Spectator editor there was one observation I heard more often from readers than any other: ‘Rod is the first page I turn to every...

10.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

‘The genuine progressive’ / To be a Spectator reader was to love Rod

Since becoming Spectator editor there was one observation I heard more often from readers than any other: ‘Rod is the first page I turn to every...

06.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

To be a Spectator reader was to love Rod

Since becoming Spectator editor there was one observation I heard more often from readers than any other: ‘Rod is the first page I turn to every...

06.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Burnham and Powell want to bring back stupid

When the great Tory Lord Chancellor F. E. Smith gave his rectorial address at Glasgow University in 1923 he promised the undergraduates there...

29.07.2026 30

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Politics / I was targeted by a killer – but I’m still against more security for MPs

Reason, David Hume noted, is a slave of the passions. Arguments, especially political crusades, are often rooted in emotional responses, with the...

16.07.2026 10

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The Brexit decade: was it worth it?

It may not feel or sound like it but Keir Starmer is a born-again Brexiteer. His achievements in office may be nugatory, his search for a legacy...

28.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Can I save Britain from war with Russia?

I t won’t be much of a consolation to Keir Starmer but I too was overwhelmed by the responsibilities of being prime minister. Fortunately for the...

25.06.2026 30

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The Brexit decade: was it worth it?

It may not feel or sound like it but Keir Starmer is a born-again Brexiteer. His achievements in office may be nugatory, his search for a legacy...

18.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The Pope’s AI intervention shames our politicians

I was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture. Politically, I’m more Orange than Donald Trump’s skin tone. But today I am on my knees giving...

29.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The Pope’s AI intervention shames our politicians

I was born into a sternly Presbyterian culture. Politically, I’m more Orange than Donald Trump’s skin tone. But today I am on my knees giving...

28.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Starmergeddon: Labour is hurtling further left

There’s a difference between climate and weather. Both change, but at very different tempos. Variations in the weather are seasonal and ephemeral....

08.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Starmergeddon: Labour is hurtling further left

There’s a difference between climate and weather. Both change, but at very different tempos. Variations in the weather are seasonal and ephemeral....

07.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The truth about England’s ‘New Towns’

At the end of last week, the Government suggested there should be resonant names – that evoked the grandeur of past heroes – for seven magnificent...

25.03.2026 40

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Keir Starmer has surrendered to Ed Miliband – and we are all paying the price

Labour MPs who want Wes Streeting to be their leader have, apparently, one great fear. If their man triggers a contest, they are terrified it will...

21.03.2026 40

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Politics / Keir Starmer has surrendered to Ed Miliband – and we are all paying the price

Labour MPs who want Wes Streeting to be their leader have, apparently, one great fear. If their man triggers a contest, they are terrified it will...

19.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Michael Gove

The guilty men: the ideologues who undermine Britain

29.01.2026 50

The Spectator

Michael Gove

What does loyalty mean in politics?

17.01.2026 30

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Weimar Britain: lessons from history in radical times

18.09.2025 30

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Books / Relations with Europe provide the key to British postwar politics

04.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

Tracks of my tears / My memories of the royal train

03.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove

My memories of the royal train

03.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Michael Gove