Steerpike

Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk.

Labour appoints Chagos chief to run national security

8 November 2024 11:42 pm

In an uncertain age, who do you want keeping the nation safe? How about the guy who just bartered away…

Oxford Chancellor race in new transparency row

8 November 2024 11:24 pm

It’s the election drama obsessing much of Westminster. No, not Donald v Kamala but rather the race to be Chancellor…

What does a Trump victory mean for Prince Harry?

8 November 2024 8:20 pm

Dear oh dear. Donald Trump’s presidential victory has not thrilled everyone – and, Mr S suspects, least of all Prince…

Is Rishi Sunak off already?

8 November 2024 4:39 am

It’s less than a week since he formally handed over the reins of power – but Rishi Sunak is wasting…

Guardian staff get therapy for Trump triumph

8 November 2024 3:20 am

While Republicans across the US celebrate Donald Trump’s victory and eagerly await his return to the White House, those that…

Did 100 Labour activists scare off 400k Democrat voters?

8 November 2024 12:52 am

Was it Labour wot lost it? It was less than a month ago, as Kamala Harris appeared to be riding…

Mike Amesbury due in court as Reform eyes seat

7 November 2024 11:44 pm

It’s never too long before Labour’s woes are back in the news. Now suspended MP Mike Amesbury has been summonsed…

Will these celebs really leave the US over Trump?

7 November 2024 11:20 pm

Despite receiving the backing of a whole host of A-listers, including Beyoncé and Taylor Swift, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris still…

Downing Street’s Diwali debacle

7 November 2024 8:37 pm

Twelve months ago, it was Rishi Sunak who was lighting a candle outside No. 10. So with a new regime…

Labour minister refuses to deny Trump has ‘Nazi sympathies’

7 November 2024 8:07 pm

The US election has been and gone and Donald Trump emerged victorious, with the former president set to re-enter the…

Full list: the Cabinet members who blasted Trump

7 November 2024 1:05 am

Donald Trump has won the US election, and will become the 47th president of the United States. But while the…

SNP members slam Swinney’s support of Kamala

7 November 2024 12:35 am

It’s not been First Minister John Swinney’s year. Not only did his Westminster group fail fantastically at the July poll…

Six Brits who had a bad election night

6 November 2024 9:28 pm

So Donald Trump is heading for the White House once again. It’s a result that has stunned much of the…

Watch: Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell baffled by Trump’s victory

6 November 2024 5:04 pm

Donald Trump is on course to win the US election – and it’s safe to say that Rory Stewart and…

Five of Labour’s worst Trump attacks

6 November 2024 12:45 am

The countdown is on, with just days left until the result of the US presidential election is announced. With pollsters…

Farage: Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win

5 November 2024 9:37 pm

At long last, the Tory leadership race concluded at the weekend after Kemi Badenoch was crowned victor on Saturday. But…

Gamblers are putting their money on a Trump triumph

5 November 2024 8:35 pm

It’s polling day across the pond and Steerpike is keen to have a flutter. Opinion polling in the US election…

Scots revealed to be biggest Trump fans in western Europe

5 November 2024 4:00 am

In a rather surprising development, it transpires that Scottish people are Donald Trump’s biggest fans in Europe. A Norstat poll…

Labour’s tuition fee U-turn

5 November 2024 2:14 am

Dear oh dear. It now transpires that Starmer’s army will increase university fees in line with inflation from September next…

Guardian removes Israeli whisky reference

5 November 2024 12:24 am

Well, well, well. It seems that the Guardian, the self-proclaimed bastion of ‘clarity and imagination’, has been acting rather censoriously…

Watch: Home Secretary flounders over small boats

4 November 2024 10:08 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot are desperate to get the press and public talking about anything but the Budget this…

Southport suspect: A timeline of what was said and when

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Three months after the Southport attack in July, suspect Axel Rudakubana was this week charged with two new fresh offences.…

Michal Caine turns on Labour’s taxes

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Taxes, thousands of ’em! In her bid to alienate the bulk of the British electorate, it seems that Rachel Reeves…

What will Robert Jenrick do next?

4 November 2024 7:23 am

Poor old Robert Jenrick. He has spent eleven gruelling months touring associations, existing on a diet of Ozempic and rubber-chicken,…

Will Dawn Butler lose the whip?

4 November 2024 3:06 am

With his super-majority in the Commons, Keir Starmer isn’t afraid of losing the odd MP or two. Back in July…