Evening Standard sacks nearly half its journalists after Covid crunch
Last Friday, Evgeny Lebedev, owner of the Independent and the Evening Standard, was celebrating his nomination for a peerage. But…
Palmerston's retirement leaves Larry as top cat
Power struggles at the heart of government continued today, with a key member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office announcing…
Games organiser's Olympic oversight
Given this year’s Tokyo games had to be called off because of the Covid pandemic, you would think those sitting…
The Wall Street Journal hits back at staff's 'cancel culture'
Last month, the New York Times published an opinion piece by the US senator, Tom Cotton, calling for the army…
Corbynites turn on Starmer
As MPs head home for the holidays, Keir Starmer goes into the recess having put clear water between himself and his…
Watch: Huawei execs grilled on Hong Kong
A handful of Huawei executives testified in front of the Commons’ Science and Technology Committee on Thursday morning, to discuss…
'Whitelisting' banned in Whitehall
Brexit, coronavirus and an upcoming Whitehall shake-up is enough to keep the Cabinet Office busy – but it seems some civil…
The New York Times hits out at panto
Pantomime has been an essential part of British theatre for generations. Not only is it often a child’s first, magical…
The Black Lives Matter UK reverse-ferrets
As the first Black Lives Matter protests began to take place in the UK, following the killing of George Floyd…
What would Thatcher do?
No one seems to think Boris Johnson has handled this crisis particularly well. But who might have done a better…
Watch: Andrew Neil on why The Spectator is returning furlough money
Earlier this month, The Spectator‘s chairman Andrew Neil announced that we would be handing back the government furlough money. He…
The five most explosive Trump claims in Bolton's new book
Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has made a series of bombshell revelations in a new tell-all biography. Claims…
UKTV’s bizarre Fawlty Towers ban
It’s been 45 years since the Fawlty Towers episode ‘The Germans’ first aired on the BBC, in which Basil Fawlty…
Watch: Tory MPs clean Churchill’s statue
Yesterday, protestors at a Black Lives Matter demo in London vandalised the statue of Winston Churchill which stands in Parliament…
The civil war inside the New York Times
After the New York Times published an op-ed written by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton – calling for the military to be…
Civil servants strike back: 'arrogant and offensive'
Oh dear. For some time there have been reports of tension between Downing Street and the Civil Service. Now it…
Why was this lockdown sceptic's video removed from YouTube?
Professor Karol Sikora is a rare voice of reason in these strange times. So why was a video featuring him discussing…
Lancet editor’s Chinese propaganda
Ever since the coronavirus first began to spread in the UK, one of the government’s staunchest critics has been the…
Bail out the Italians and Spanish? 'No, no, no'
While most of us have been hunkering down at home, Brussels big wigs have been trying to thrash out of…
Chinese diplomat's Covid-19 PR exercise backfires
As countries around the world try to work out a way to live with coronavirus, there’s a growing hostility towards…
Oxford professor: We’ve got to be brave now to come out of lockdown
As those who have been keeping a close eye on the number of daily coronavirus cases and deaths in the…
'You are endangering the world': German tabloid goes to war with China
Could China have done more to prevent the coronavirus pandemic? One tabloid editor in Germany certainly thinks so and an extraordinary…
What pandemic? Labour finds a way to keep talking about itself
There’s nothing like a national crisis to get your priorities in order. With the coronavirus death toll in the UK…
Diane Abbott's most memorable shadow cabinet moments
This week Keir Starmer’s formed his new Shadow Cabinet replacing several Corbynista stalwarts with his own favoured MPs on the frontbenches. As a…
Watch: Boris struggles to say if he'll change nappies
After a prolonged spell of avoiding media interviews, Boris Johnson finally came out of hiding today and appeared on breakfast television. The…
