How worried should we be about Putin’s nuclear threat?

27 September 2024 3:00 am

Vladimir Putin has announced that Moscow’s nuclear doctrine will be adjusted, telling a group of senior officials that Russia could use nuclear weapons if…

What if the Electoral College vote is tied? 

26 September 2024 11:50 pm

America has a peculiar — indeed, unique — way of deciding national elections. Instead of a cumulative national vote, the…

Abbott slams Starmer’s cabinet, one by one

26 September 2024 11:33 pm

,All is not well in the Labour party at present. If Sir Keir Starmer didn’t have enough on his plate,…

Israel wants a war with Lebanon

26 September 2024 11:02 pm

The war that neither side wanted began this week in earnest. After last week’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies reportedly injured…

Britain could learn from Texan prisons

26 September 2024 10:30 pm

Before I was sentenced to prison I imagined it as a place of discipline, where we who had broken society’s…

Is Labour’s non-dom crackdown backfiring already?

26 September 2024 10:08 pm

It takes something when even the Guardian is warning you that your tax rises might end up costing more than they raise…

Texas-style reforms won’t save our prisons

26 September 2024 10:00 pm

Texas. Big country, big ideas. The new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has become enamoured with an intriguing…

Ireland’s embarrassing hate speech fiasco

26 September 2024 9:22 pm

To the surprise of nobody and the disappointment of only a few, the Irish government has finally accepted reality and…

Labour MP’s million-pound loan from Lord Alli

26 September 2024 8:51 pm

Another day, another drama. Now it transpires that a Labour MP took a million-pound loan from Lord Alli – to…

DC bar Political Pattie’s gets hazed for being bipartisan

26 September 2024 7:38 pm

A new DC bar dedicated to crossing partisan lines, “Political Pattie’s,” has taken the “political” out of its name… though…

Labour’s two-tier prison plans

26 September 2024 6:30 pm

There are not many women in prison, but those who are inside show worryingly high rates of mental illness, suicide…

Putting Marine Le Pen in prison will make her more popular

26 September 2024 5:01 pm

There was a vigorous interview on Tuesday morning on a prominent French radio station. The guest was Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a…

Federal MP calls for urgent suspension of vaccines following release of lab report

26 September 2024 12:54 pm

Long-standing Member of Parliament, Russell Broadbent, has written an urgent letter to the Prime Minister calling for an immediate suspension…

Javier Milei Slams the UN for ditching freedom for socialism

26 September 2024 11:08 am

Javier Milei’s United Nations smackdown will rate as one of the Argentine President’s finest moments. Milei’s first speech before the…

Starmer tells Israel ‘no more excuses’ on Gaza aid

26 September 2024 6:05 am

Keir Starmer has moved on rather quickly from Labour conference, pitching up in New York to tell Israel that it…

Tim Walz faces a Yale Law reckoning

26 September 2024 3:33 am

The Harris-Walz team has a plan to coax Trump into another debate. According to NBC News, the Democratic National Committee…

America’s vibes election, with Alex Castellanos

26 September 2024 3:00 am

For many voters, the upcoming US election isn’t really about the border, or the deficit, or guns, or healthcare, or…

Bushfires: climate or criminal?

26 September 2024 2:36 am

The season has commenced with a bushfire in Sydney’s Northern Beaches area reputedly started by a burn off. Another has…

Ukraine’s mental health system strives under strain of ‘Continuous Traumatic Stress Disorder’

26 September 2024 1:19 am

Mental health in Ukraine is trending upwards one year after a ground-breaking summit led by First Lady Olena Zelenska, according…

Why is Sadiq Khan trying to restart his fight with Donald Trump?

26 September 2024 1:11 am

London mayor Sadiq Khan, whose official day job is running the capital, is in New York this week, where he has…

Why are we deceiving ourselves about Britain’s obesity problem?

26 September 2024 12:54 am

Is it really true that obesity rates in England have stabilised or fallen, as has been reported today – and…

Fewer women should be in jail

26 September 2024 12:03 am

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is right about one thing: when it comes to addressing crimes committed by women, prison doesn’t…

Michael Gove is the new editor of The Spectator

25 September 2024 11:26 pm

It’s a time of new beginnings here at The Spectator after Sir Paul Marshall’s historic £100 million bid for the…

Donald Trump’s tariff talk is just bluster

25 September 2024 10:35 pm

Donald Trump is campaigning hard on protectionism, promising to bring skilled manual jobs back onshore. What will that look like?…

Labour conference votes to reverse Starmer’s winter fuel cuts

25 September 2024 10:17 pm

Keir Starmer’s first Labour conference as Prime Minister has ended in humiliation after delegates backed a motion condemning cuts to…