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A republican's tribute to the Queen
I am a republican, always have been, and yet I now feel a great sense of loss. And not only…
The Queen was the model constitutional monarch
There are events in politics that everyone knows are coming but no one can quite anticipate what they will mean. The…
Britain will be a lesser nation without the Queen
The loneliest thing about being as long-lived as the Queen, at 96, is that you have few or no contemporaries.…
Our country's saddest day
This is our country’s saddest day. In the hearts of every one of us there is an ache at the…
Queen Elizabeth II: in tributes
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died this afternoon at Balmoral, the royal family confirmed. The gravity of the news has…
Britain will now enter ten days of mourning
When word of the Queen’s illness spread, the House of Commons quickly emptied. Liz Truss had just announced her fuel…
We will all miss Her Majesty
When the 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth became Queen in February 1952, the average age at which her subjects died was, at…
My beloved mother
The death of my beloved mother Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and…
The Prime Minister's tribute to Elizabeth II
We are all devastated by the news we have just heard from Balmoral. The death of Her Majesty the Queen…
Queen Elizabeth II, our remarkable monarch
Queen Elizabeth II, who has died at the age of 96, was the longest-serving British monarch. From the uncertain beginnings of…
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96
The Queen has died. Buckingham Palace has just confirmed that Her Majesty passed away at Balmoral this afternoon. It was…
Russia's Ben Stiller ban is a sign of Putin's desperation
What do Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, the chairman of the BBC, Piers Morgan, and, er, me, have in common? The…
Truss’s appointments are ruffling Tory feathers
Liz Truss has started to appoint supporters of her leadership campaign rivals to ministerial positions, answering the demand (mostly from…
Is long Covid all in the mind?
What’s the link between long Covid and mental health? A study just published in the Journal of the American Medical…
Liz Truss should increase Universal Credit
Liz Truss’s plans for a two-year energy bill freeze, estimated to cost £100 billion, underscore three points. One, the incoming Prime…
Tory ministers shouldn’t fall for these purity tests
Liz Truss’s ministers had not even got their feet beneath the cabinet table before they were treated to a barrage…
Truss is in a stronger position than Thatcher – for now
People used to understand that they were ageing when they noticed police officers in their neighbourhood looking unfeasibly young. Given…
Putin's gas war endgame
What is the Kremlin’s gas war endgame? Based on the various statements from Gazprom, the foreign ministry, and Dmitry Peskov,…
Why Germany must pay war reparations to Poland
There are crimes that can never be fully forgiven, and can never be forgotten. Time does not absolve the perpetrator…
Bush is leading us to tragedy (2002)
It’s 20 years since the clamour for the invasion of Iraq was at its loudest. Boris Johnson, The Spectator’s then…
What does the new cabinet tell us about Truss?
”Loyalty’ remarked Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe is ‘the Tory party’s secret weapon.’ The near constant blue-on-blue attacks of the last six…
Ukraine turns the tables on Russia
Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine has moved into a new phase, a very encouraging one for Ukraine and its western…
The horrifying truth about Liz Truss
Was it just me or was Liz Truss actually smirking during her statement outside Downing Street, the one littered with…
Full text: The PM's first speech on the steps of No. 10
Good afternoon. I have just accepted Her Majesty the Queen’s kind invitation to form a new government. Let me pay…
Boris Johnson was a terrible strongman
The ejection of Boris Johnson from Downing Street today proves that the UK has not gone the way of Donald…
