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How to avoid repeating the mistakes of the HS2 fiasco
Rishi Sunak has finally slayed the white elephant that is HS2 or, perhaps more accurately, cut off its hind legs…
Starmer changes his tune on the Sun
As if Starmer Chameleon hadn’t done enough U-turns this year. Ahead of his party conference in Liverpool, the Labour leader…
How immigration came to define the Polish elections
Poland is heading for a highly divisive and polarised election on October 15th. The country’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS)…
‘I am 35,000 feet above Beirut, and I am smoking a fag’: Spectator writers recall their favourite cigarettes
The next generation will never be allowed to buy cigarettes. So we asked some of our writers for their favourite…
How I saved a baby in Laos’s jungle
I was writing a thriller in northeast Laos about fifteen years ago near a town called Phonsavan, researching a mysterious…
Newsom’s diversity pick is a depressing sign of the times
California governor Gavin Newsom’s recent appointment of Laphonza Butler, a black lesbian, to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat generated…
The terrible loss of National Theatre Wales
National Theatre Wales (NTW), the country’s flagship English language company, has warned that it might be forced to close in…
Mocking murdered leftists is not based
At 1:30 a.m. on Monday, Philadelphia freelance journalist Josh Kruger was shot seven times at the base of his stairs…
Juncker dismisses ‘corrupt’ Ukraine joining EU in near future
Just days after Ukraine’s President Zelensky declared his intention to start EU membership negotiations by the end of this year,…
There’s nothing ‘long-term’ about ignoring the housing crisis
There was much to talk about in Rishi Sunak’s conference closing speech. In around an hour on the stage he…
Commander Biden should have been raised right
Another day, another Biden family member making an embarrassing faux pas. This time, it’s Commander Biden, the less-than-faithful German Shepherd…
Is Fifa trying to destroy the World Cup?
It’s official, well almost. Fifa has announced the location for the 2030 (centenary) World Cup. And the winner is… all…
The Pope has gone full Greta Thunberg
At last, the Pope is being taken seriously when he warns of moral degeneracy – well, sort of. When Popes have…
Why a gangster’s death in Central Asia matters
Such is the globalisation of the modern underworld, that the fate of a gangster you may never have heard of,…
There’s nothing conservative about Sunak’s smoking ban
Is Rishi Sunak the least Tory Tory PM ever? He’s fundamentally Californian at heart: witness his terrible policy to ban…
Can post-liberalism save the Conservative party?
‘We – conservatives of left and right, all those who believe in the old way – need to win this…
Where is the western outrage at this migrant crisis?
Pakistan has told all unauthorised Afghan migrants that they must leave the country by the end of October. Imagine if…
Rishi the revolutionary? Come off it
It was preposterous. A prime minister at the head of a party that’s been running the country for 13 years…
Rishi Sunak’s exam shake-up doesn’t add up
After 13 years in power, the Conservatives have decided to rebrand themselves as the ‘party of change’. Today, Rishi Sunak…
The many flaws in Sunak’s smoking wheeze
In the run-up to the Conservative party conference, Rishi Sunak was promoting himself as a serious politician who wanted workable…
The Hateful Eight hand the House to the Democrats
In Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, a posse of violent ne’er-do-wells forced by circumstance into a house together descend, through…
GB News sack Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson
It’s been a mixed fortnight of fortunes for GB News. Their party at Tory conference attracted a galaxy of right-wing…
Is Mitt Romney behind Akshata Murthy’s appearance?
Is Akshata Murthy using the Ann Romney playbook? Rishi Sunak’s wife made an unexpected appearance on the main stage at…
Full text: Rishi Sunak’s Tory conference speech
Thank you, Akshata, for that introduction, and thank you for always being there for me. My wife: truly the best…
Can Sunak really cast himself as the enemy of the status quo?
Rishi Sunak today revealed a new enemy that he’s defining himself against: ‘the 30-year status quo’. Why this period? Because…
