Starmer facing rebellion over two-child benefit cap
Uh oh. While Sir Keir Starmer’s popularity has had a post-election bounce (with an approval rating now at 19 per…
Will Reeves boost public sector pay?
As the dust around the election settles, a question Tory MPs and supporters still grapple with is why Rishi Sunak…
Israel hits back at Houthi drone attack
Operation Long Arm, the code name for Israel’s counter-terror strikes in Yemen, sends a message almost as forceful as the…
A bone to pick with Biden
Permit me a timely if controversial ‘dog with a bone’ essay, in which I play the dog. Here’s the bone:…
The Soviet Union’s gerontocracy should serve as a warning to the US
One waspish – but not entirely inaccurate – Russian media assessment of the first US presidential debate was that it…
Trump returns to the campaign trail in Michigan with VP pick Vance
Donald Trump and his freshly announced running mate, Senator J.D. Vance, held their first rally together Saturday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Following…
The dark side of Strictly Come Dancing
Wallowing in the cosy entertainment of Strictly Come Dancing has been a staple Saturday evening ritual for millions during the…
China’s Arctic ambitions should trouble the West
Four Chinese warships were spotted off the coast of Alaska last weekend. According to the US coast guard, the ships…
The Trump attack and the death of consensus
Assassination attempts are the boiling point at which politics explodes. They are the final straw, the irascible tension when consensus…
Germany will regret cutting Ukraine aid
It wasn’t so long ago that the German chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to convince fellow European leaders to do more…
Have we finished creating gods?
Since the earliest times, mankind has been creating gods to deal with unexplained phenomena. To the ancient Egyptians, the mere…
Will the Paris Olympics be the final nail in Macron’s coffin?
The mayor of Paris went for a swim in the Seine on Wednesday and emerged invigorated. The water, said Anne…
Joe Biden and the truth about old age
Observing the tremulous travails of Joe Biden, I reflected that we’re in two minds about old age. On one hand…
The cult of the Greens: when friendship collides with ideology
I was recently cancelled by a long-term friend for having the temerity to support the State of Israel. The friend,…
Longlegs shows us what the future of horror could be
Unless you count plastic, comically oversized bodily features, and screaming children, there’s not much connecting the Barbie movie with Osgood…
Trump swallows universe
One of the most important Australian novels of the last few decades is Boy Swallows Universe, the semi-autobiographical debut by…
How the markets reacted to Trump’s assassination attempt
Market reactions to the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania represent, according to taste, rational bets on the significantly increased likelihood of…
How to drown your sorrows
Age. At the Spectator party last week, the editor asked me how long I had been attending the festivity. I…
Is Donald Trump a ‘badass’?
Logan Paul, a wrestler with 23 million YouTube subscribers, called Donald Trump’s immediate reaction to his shooting ‘the most badass…
David Lammy’s Trump problem
There’s no shortage of people who have spent recent years comparing Donald Trump with Adolf Hitler. Among other places, the…
Impossible to doze through, sadly: Twisters reviewed
Twisters is an action-disaster film that follows ‘storm-chasers’ and is so relentless in its own pursuit of tornadoes that plot,…
Are the Rees-Moggs ready for their new reality?
I felt slightly anxious for Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg when I read he’d agreed to have a reality show made about…
Dear Mary: Help! My teeth are too white
Q. I ride a bike from Chiswick to the City each morning. It is a ten-mile journey that takes 45…
Up, up and down again: my attempt to balloon the Atlantic
I was hoping to fly the first hydrogen balloon across the Atlantic and had been waiting for a year to…
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