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Matt Hancock showed how Conservatives can win
It’s somehow appropriate that Matt Hancock finished third in the 2022 series of I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here! Third is…
Lying-in-State leaves its mark on parliament
The Lying-in-State of Her Majesty the Queen was widely hailed in September as a triumph. The organisation was slick, the…
Can Sunak get a grip on his party?
As Tory MPs ponder whether to stand down at the next election in the face of grim polling, the Prime…
Why ‘Uber for the countryside’ is a great idea
The disappearance of rural bus routes is one of the small tragedies of our time. It isn’t, alas, a very glamorous…
America is entering a golden age of democratic capitalism
America could be entering the ‘Great Stagflation’, defined by economist Noriel Roubini as ‘an era of high inflation, low growth,…
What Trump’s dinner with antisemites tells us about 2024
Well, it was quite a Thanksgiving week at Mar-a-Lago. For those just waking from their food comas, the Cliff Notes…
Matt Hancock comes third on I’m A Celeb
All of Westminster was glued to their screens on Sunday tonight to watch the final of I’m A Celebrity. For…
Why China can’t stop zero Covid
The Covid situation in China is not looking good right now. The authorities have trapped themselves into a situation from…
Justin Trudeau’s strange defence of his protest crackdown
On Friday, Justin Trudeau made his much-anticipated appearance before the Canadian Public Order Emergency Commission, where he gave testimony about…
Where did it all go wrong for trans charity Mermaids?
Farewell Susie Green, the CEO of Mermaids, a charity that describes itself as supporting ‘trans, non-binary and gender-variant children, young…
The empty Englishness of Love Actually
One of the pleasures of fiction, be it book or film, is that it can take us to actual places…
China’s zero-Covid anger is erupting
Protests seem to be breaking out in several major Chinese cities in what has been a week of horrors for…
Would Solzhenitsyn have supported Putin’s war?
A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s first novel, appeared 60 years ago this month. Vividly portraying…
The conspiracy against grammar schools
I love a good hard debate, especially at a university. I can’t recall how many such clashes I have had,…
Laughing at libertarians as crypto burns
In many countries, tricking stupid people out of money is a crime. In the United States, it’s the basis of…
Why is Britain still sending foreign aid to China?
Just why is Britain still spending over £50 million a year in development aid to China? Despite it being the…
At war with my pearly whites
I am a dental basket case. When I was a child, my orthodontist used to joke that he could drive…
What the experts got wrong about migration
On New Year’s Day, 2014, during those sunny, innocent times of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband, Labour MP Keith Vaz headed down to…
Why Britain can’t build infrastructure
The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates that the government will spend (read: borrow) £43 billion this year to keep the…
The lost souls of the Atrium hotel
Heathrow, in London’s western outlands, never lets you forget it’s there. Jets ascend and descend constantly, turning the air into…
Why America’s future is still bright
‘There is a lot of ruin in a nation.’ So said Adam Smith over two centuries ago. He reminds us…
Cardinal Zen’s conviction shows that no one is safe in Hong Kong
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the 90-year-old retired bishop of Hong Kong, has been convicted of failing to register a humanitarian…
How Qatar uses its wealth to challenge western values
The French have adopted a ‘when in Rome’ approach to the World Cup in Qatar, refraining from virtue-signalling their disapproval…
The Tories’ migration policy problem
Today’s net migration figures naturally present a problem for ministers in that they are going in the opposite direction to…
Theresa May savages Piers Morgan
Perhaps the most cathartic moment of The Spectator’s Parliamentarian of the Year awards was when the relatively quiet former PM…
