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Tougher sentences won’t stop women being killed
Manifestos come and go but women continue to be murdered by men they know in grotesquely high numbers. According to…
King Charles’s deeply moving D-Day speeches
Eighty years ago, in the run up to D-Day, King George VI and his Prime Minister Winston Churchill were caught…
Labour candidate’s D-Day blunder
It’s been a long hard slog for Keir Starmer and his team as they work to prove that he leads…
Why Tory MPs are angry with their chairman
Today is the deadline for Conservative candidates to be selected – and one man made it just under the wire.…
Tories take £5 million from racism row donor
Oh dear. As election campaigns ramp up, the Tories have found themselves in another spot of trouble. It transpires today…
Labour is breaking one of the last taboos in politics
Labour has decided to lean into the £2,000 tax hike claim by the Tories, and turn it into a row about lying.…
Have the Tories done enough for veterans?
The Conservative party is returning to defence and security for another election pitch and has unveiled a series of measures…
A Spectator editor’s account of the D-Day landings
Today is the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. On 6 June 1944, some 160,000 Allied troops crossed the Channel, as…
The astonishing achievement of D-Day
Today we are commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day – ‘Operation OVERLORD’ – with fitting ceremony and reverence, though, some polls…
Keir Starmer and the truth about the Camden cadre
Since 1997, every new government has been defined by an inner-London postcode. Remember the David Cameron era ‘Notting Hill set?’…
How a dead French poet helped the Allies to victory on D-Day
D Day, 6 June, 1944, saw put into action one of the most unlikely alliances in the history of warfare:…
Vaughan Gething’s impressive failure
Vaughan Gething, First Minister of Wales, has managed to achieve the remarkable feat of losing a no confidence vote –…
Farage’s milkshake attack and the perils of progressivism
Much worse than the fact of a banana milkshake being chucked over Nigel Farage is the inevitable discourse it has…
Will Vaughan Gething follow Truss and Yousaf?
There’s something in the British waters right now – and it’s not Ed Davey on his paddleboard. After Liz Truss…
The European elections will test the AfD’s strength
As Olaf Scholz gathers alongside other European leaders on the beaches of Northern France tomorrow to commemorate 80 years since…
Will Netanyahu declare war on Hezbollah?
The war in Gaza is perceived internationally as a limited affair, pitting Israel against the Islamist Hamas organisation within the…
Reform’s Farage poll bounce spells trouble for the Tories
‘I’m back’. Nigel Farage’s two-word tweet on Monday heralded the return of one of Westminster’s great celebrities. Barely 48 hours…
The Nigel Farage milkshaking is no laughing matter
Emerging from a pub after his campaign launch in Clacton yesterday afternoon, Nigel Farage was milkshaked. A 25-year-old woman has been charged with assault by…
Alex Salmond’s Alba party isn’t serious about the general election
In the second-floor room of a building on Tufton Street, Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond delivered a press conference…
Can Begona Gomez get a fair trial in Spain?
Begona Gomez, the wife of Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has received a court summons for 5 July, in connection with…
Labour is paying the price for Starmer’s failure to refute the £2,000 tax claim
The Tories have had their first good 24 hours of the election campaign. The £2,000 tax claim made by Rishi…
Tory favourites enjoy mixed success in safe seats
Claims of stitch-ups in seat selections are as old as the Tory party itself. But the chaotic nature of this…
On Sunak’s maths, Tories will lift taxes by £3,000 per household
My colleague Ross Clark has shown how the Tories cooked up that £2,000 figure. They worked out the total cost of what…
The activists’ war on book festivals spells disaster for authors
Touring the country’s literary festivals as an author isn’t glamorous. Like travelling salesmen, we get into our cars or board…
The truth about Labour’s fiscal black hole
It is small wonder that Treasury officials are unhappy about Conservative claims about Labour tax rises being attributed to them.…
