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Inflation drops to its lowest level in two years
Inflation has slowed once again, to 3.4 per cent in the 12 months to February, down from 4 per cent…
Five takeaways from Rachel Reeves’s Mais speech
We live in an age of stunts and soundbites so it was refreshing to hear a politician stand up and,…
How big will Rachel Reeves’s state be?
Every year the Mais lecture, hosted by Bayes Business School, gives its speaker a chance to lay out their vision…
Football is in enough trouble without a ‘regulator’
Unlike David Cameron – who famously got in a muddle about which team he supported – Rishi Sunak is a…
Does Rachel Reeves have the answers?
Rachel Reeves has given her much-anticipated speech about what she’d do as the first female chancellor in history. As briefed,…
How to fix the elites
Few things get the British quite as worked up as private schools. To the left, they are factories of inequality…
Simon Case’s five worst WhatsApp moments
At long last, Simon Case has received his hearing date for the UK Covid Inquiry. The most senior civil servant…
In defence of private members’ clubs
The members list of the men-only Garrick Club in London’s West End has remained a closely-guarded secret – until now.…
The Tories are stuck in a Net Zero trap of their own making
The Prime Minister’s pronouncement that Britain needs investment in new gas-fired power stations to keep the lights on is a…
The genius of the ‘Noon against Putin’ protest
On Sunday, the final day of voting in Russia’s presidential election, Russians came out in an unorthodox protest against the…
Ed Miliband’s dangerous net zero fantasy
Ed Miliband set Labour back a decade when he not only failed to win the 2015 general election but went…
Could a fight over Rwanda get Sunak the poll boost he needs?
Downing Street has warned that peers will show a lack of ‘compassion’ if they do not pass the Rwanda Bill…
Why Israel targeted Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital
Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, was once again turned into a battlefield yesterday. Five hours of fighting between Israel and Hamas…
BBC apologises for calling Reform ‘far-right’
Another day, another BBC blunder. This time the broadcaster admits that it was wrong to describe Richard Tice’s Reform UK…
Will the conspiracy theories about Kate ever die?
At last, the matter should have been settled. After the innumerable articles, social media posts and television pundits all speculating…
Rachel Reeves will regret promising growth
Growth will be turbo-charged, animal spirits will be unleashed, and foreign investment will flood back into Britain. Shadow chancellor Rachel…
What the French left could learn from Keir Starmer
Last week on Spectator TV Fraser Nelson saluted the ‘intervention’ of the Labour party in the debate about whether the…
Why climate protestors lost the right to cause criminal damage
Yesterday, the Lady Chief Justice, Lady Carr, delivered a judgment on protest law which may close a remarkable loophole which…
A pension crisis is brewing
Ten years ago, George Osborne blew up the British private pension system. Because pensions are boring and complicated and move…
Steve Harley was no one-hit wonder
Celebrity deaths range from the ‘tragically young’ (Amy Winehouse) to the ‘I thought they’d gone years ago’ (Peregrine Worsthorne) and the monumental (Michael Jackson). But there’s another…
Lessons from Trump’s TikTok zigzag
One of the accepted media tales about the Republican Party is that because Donald Trump dominates it politically and stylistically,…
Has Labour spied an opportunity in the Tory National Insurance pledge?
A curious attack from Labour in the Commons this afternoon: shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall used her slot…
Israel’s ‘allies’ should reckon with reality
Everyone wants an end to the fighting in Gaza. The United States backs ‘an immediate and sustained ceasefire’. The European…
The middle classes let Banksy get away with vandalism
This is a tale of two murals: one painted on the side of a building in Greenwich by an artist…
Revealed: the extent of Sadiq Khan’s splurge of taxpayers’ cash
Londoners don’t agree on much, but on one subject many of the capital’s residents are united: Amy Lamé, the mayor’s…
