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We begin today in the Canadian Parliament, which has its own version of prime minister’s questions. And while it isn’t…
PMQs: Boris looks chipper for a man on the brink
And still they try. MPs are desperate to get the Prime Minister to quit, live on TV, during PMQs. As…
Carry on Carrie: why I've changed my mind about our 'first lady'
Who exactly is the Prime Minister’s wife? To some, she’s Carrie Antoinette, the extravagant demander of gold wallpaper who spent…
Why is the BBC saying Boris’s Savile claims are false?
Is Boris Johnson’s claim that Keir Starmer failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile ‘false’? The BBC certainly thinks so. During the…
PMQs: Boris's anger over new partygate picture
The takeaway moment from today’s PMQs came not in the main exchanges between Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer but…
Can Macron really lecture Putin about democracy?
A penny for the thoughts of Vladimir Putin on Monday as he stared at Emmanuel Macron from the end of…
Adele is right to take a pop at gender neutral awards
Adele’s triumph at the Brits last night is splashed all over the internet. She won best song, best album, and best…
Lock them up? Not in Sturgeon's Scotland
One of the great disappointments of devolution has been the failure of the Scottish parliament to pursue novel ways of…
Sacrificing the Uighurs to the Olympics
It’s hard to say what was most distressing about the opening days of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The lament of…
Will Starmer apologise for his slur against Boris?
Well I don’t know about you, but I definitely heard a nasty slur flung from one leader to another during…
China breaks new records in the Surveillance Olympics
Never before have the participants in a major sporting event been so closely monitored as in this Winter Olympics in…
Boris's reshuffle reveals his weakness
Boris Johnson’s attempted reset is underway, with a mini-reshuffle announced this afternoon. The Prime Minister has made a number of changes to…
The Starmer mob moral panic
In the long history of British democracy, politicians have from time to time been heckled and abused by rowdy loons…
A windfall tax on oil giants would harm – not help – pensioners
Look up this year’s performance of the shares and bonds which make up your pension fund and you will see…
The cost of online safety
Few people in Britain will have heard of the draft Online Safety Bill. Fewer still will oppose it. Protecting children…
Brexit-bashing bishops could ruin the Church of England
When politicians take to preaching, we feel uncomfortable. When bishops take to politics and managerialism, the sinking feeling gets worse.…
Boris Johnson is running out of options
The No. 10 operation’s decision to double down on the Starmer/Savile row after the Labour leader was accosted in the…
The new unpatriotic conservatives
The die against conservatives opposed to the Iraq war was cast by David Frum in a now-infamous essay for National…
Mob hound Starmer outside parliament
An uneventful Monday was enlivened this evening by some rather unappealing scenes outside parliament. Walking back from a Ministry of…
Le Pen, Zemmour and the two French far rights
Just about two months ahead of the French elections, a first poll for Le Parisién suggests that Marine Le Pen…
Cambridge's Jesus College is guilty of double standards
An event took place in Cambridge last week that was rare enough to reach the national press: a public hearing…
Why Queen Elizabeth’s accession matters
This week, the United Kingdom is celebrating 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne. The Spectator has come…
SNP councillor: 'Prosecute Jimmy Carr's audience'
Oh dear. It seems that the most illiberal party in Great Britain is at it again. In the nationwide haste…
Carrie Johnson and the problem with anonymous sources
The publication of extracts from a biography of Carrie Johnson this weekend is another stark reminder that we need a…
Can we trust our spies' claims about Russia?
In the Spring of 1988, the body of Britain’s most notorious Cold War spy was lowered into the ground at…
