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The hypocrisy of Nick Candy
The property tycoon Nick Candy, interviewed in yesterday’s Sunday Times, appears to be hoping to position himself as a UK…
SNP ministers blasted over taxpayer-funded limo trips
To Scotland, where more SNP ministers are under scrutiny over their use of official limousines with First Minister John Swinney…
How Ireland declared diplomatic war on Israel
‘Tis the season of goodwill to all men. Except for the Irish and Israelis, that is, who have seen their…
The attack on Ben Judah is nothing to celebrate
Readers of The Spectator may remember the 2021 defenestration of author and teacher Kate Clanchy, which saw her part company…
Macron is powerless against his enemies
So farewell Michel Barnier, the man who will now be best remembered not as the suave face of the EU…
What’s flying over New Jersey?
The nightly news is replicating Orson Welles’s 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds, which scared Americans by describing an…
The Duke lacrosse case should have been a warning about #MeToo
Almost two decades after claiming she was raped at a party thrown by members of the Duke University lacrosse team,…
Angela Eagle: we don’t know how many undocumented migrants there are
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admits relations with China are ‘a complex arrangement’ An alleged ‘Chinese spy’ with links to Prince…
The unintended consequence of Angela Rayner’s nature tax
Political office does odd things to parties which were in opposition. Angela Rayner and Steve Reed have written in the Sunday…
The impossibility of escaping from Assad
‘The mullahs are moody,’ said Aisha, a female university student, explaining her daily nail varnish run in with the aging…
China is getting ready to take on Trump
By one estimate, Chinese military exercises close to Taiwan this week were the largest since 1996, when Beijing attempted unsuccessfully…
Only another Bill Clinton can save the Democrats now
In the weeks since Donald Trump won the US election, Democrat supporters, amidst much gnashing of teeth, have offered up…
Will Vogue apologise for calling Asma al-Assad ‘A Rose in the Desert’?
Back in 2020, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour issued a rare public mea culpa in which she apologised for the magazine not finding ‘enough…
Bobbies on the beat won’t stop the cyber crime wave
One morning last week, in the early hours, I received a puzzling text from my bank. ‘Did you use your…
Yoon’s impeachment won’t end South Korea’s political chaos
For those who loathed him, it was second time lucky – but only just. With South Korea’s national assembly passing…
Who does Starmer think is going to build Britain’s houses?
Why does the government keep setting itself up for failure? It did it with the target for decarbonising electricity by…
We’ll learn nothing from the murder of Sara Sharif
What exactly do the authorities hope to learn that they do not already know from the safeguarding review now underway…
Don’t blame Nimbys for Britain’s housing crisis
It would be an exaggeration to say that in politics conventional wisdom is always wrong – but equally it’s not…
The Syrians who can’t go home
In a waiting room in Beirut’s Adlieh district, with harsh fluorescent lighting glaring down on us, the handcuffed prisoners, we took turns to rotate…
Why there will be no Christmas truce in Ukraine
On Christmas Eve 1914, British and German soldiers laid down their arms and crossed trenches to exchange gifts, bury the…
Bombing Syria in 2013 would not have toppled Assad
In hindsight, did the US, UK and France fail to seize the chance to topple President Bashar al-Assad in 2013?…
How long will Macron’s latest prime minister last?
Emmanuel Macron has appointed the veteran centrist Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of the year. First elected as…
Gukesh’s championship win is a triumph for Indian chess
Eighteen-year old Gukesh Dommaraju, from India, has become the youngest ever world chess champion – after defeating defending champion, China’s Ding…
Graham Linehan: I’m leaving Britain
To the world of comedy, where it transpires that renowned gender critical activist Graham Linehan is looking for pastures new.…
What Ed Miliband got right on Syria
It’s not every day I spring to the defence of Ed Miliband, Secretary for Environment, Net Zero and all the…
