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The price we’ll pay for citizens’ assemblies

16 March 2024 5:00 pm

Citizens’ assemblies will transform Britain. That’s the promise made by activists from groups like Extinction Rebellion. Labour has also mooted…

How did this London townhouse become the world’s greatest research centre?

16 March 2024 4:30 pm

If you were asked to name the world’s greatest research centre in terms of discoveries per square yard, the answer…

Don’t bother avoiding microplastics

16 March 2024 9:00 am

They’re everywhere, it seems: in the oceans, the fish, the soil, our drinking water, our vegetables, our grains and cereals,…

Tokyo’s toilets aren’t that great

16 March 2024 9:00 am

What is the world’s best city in which to be caught short? You can imagine a lively discussion on this…

How to sell The Spectator

16 March 2024 4:45 am

No foreign power will ever be allowed to buy a UK newspaper or magazine: that’s the upshot of this week’s debate…

How Ozempic fattened up Denmark’s economy

16 March 2024 3:08 am

It’s official: weight-loss wonder drug Wegovy (also marketed as Ozempic) makes US celebrities shrink but makes the Danish economy grow. This…

Porn project received thousands of pounds of Scottish taxpayers’ cash

16 March 2024 1:48 am

Good heavens. Just when you think events north of the border can’t get any more ridiculous, they do. Now it…

It’s time to declare Putin an illegitimate president

16 March 2024 1:44 am

For the next three days, Russians are heading to the polls supposedly to choose the country’s next president. Except we…

What America should heed from Julius Caesar’s assassination

16 March 2024 1:43 am

It being the Ides of March, I thought it might be worth reflecting briefly on the most famous event that…

Rishi Sunak rules out general election in May

16 March 2024 12:04 am

Rishi Sunak has finally confirmed what most MPs already knew: there won’t be a May general election. Speaking to ITV…

Can Meghan reinvent herself as a ‘lifestyle queen’?

15 March 2024 11:22 pm

It is a known, and lamented, fact that the rivalry between the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Sussex…

Ukraine has brought the war back to Russian soil

15 March 2024 9:50 pm

Ukraine can’t stop Vladimir Putin’s re-election as Russian President on Sunday, but that doesn’t mean it can’t shatter the perfect…

Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?

15 March 2024 9:31 pm

Humza Yousaf might have hoped for a better week. On Wednesday, the First Minister gave a speech at the European…

Meghan launches new lifestyle brand

15 March 2024 8:57 pm

Never able to keep herself from the spotlight for long, Meghan is back on Instagram. After her Archetypes podcast series…

Emmanuel Macron and the reason being a parent in politics matters

15 March 2024 6:29 pm

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the French press this week and passed on a message to the people. ‘Your…

The enduring lesson of Julius Caesar’s assassination

15 March 2024 5:15 pm

In Rome today a group of ancient history enthusiasts will drape themselves in togas and re-enact that most infamous act of…

Could Starmer really become the UK’s ‘most unpopular leader’?

15 March 2024 9:18 am

The Tory party hasn’t had the best week, what with one of their MPs defecting and their biggest donor embroiled in…

London to Amsterdam via Brussels: taking the long way

15 March 2024 9:00 am

Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving: from June 14, 2024 to January 2025, a reduced Eurostar service will run…

Meet the vibrant rehabilitated crack dealer threatening to shut down the Washington Wizards

15 March 2024 2:32 am

One of the leading opponents of the Washington Wizards leaving the District of Columbia is a colorful former crack cocaine…

Have the Tories finally woken up to the extremism problem?

15 March 2024 1:49 am

Michael Gove has a reliable track record for sounding the alarm on ideological hatred, so are his latest proposals on…

The scandal of Scotland’s illiberal hate crime law

15 March 2024 12:54 am

From next month in Scotland you’ll be able to drop into a sex shop, make an anonymous accusation of hate crime…

Tory MPs worry Michael Gove’s extremism crackdown could backfire

15 March 2024 12:25 am

Michael Gove’s extremism crackdown has been the talk of the Tory party for weeks now, with three former Conservative home…

How WFH engineers caused an air traffic control meltdown

14 March 2024 11:33 pm

How lovely that engineers working for National Air Traffic Services (Nats) can work from home rather than having to slog…

Is our ageing society good or bad news?

14 March 2024 9:59 pm

A remarkable transformation is underway across the world. Falling fertility rates and rising life expectancy mean there are fewer young…

Humza Yousaf fails to make the economic case for independence

14 March 2024 5:00 pm

Try to start a speech with a joke to warm up your audience. That’s always good advice. And so Scotland’s…