The British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up
This week, The Spectator exposed how the British Muslim Trust (BMT), paid millions of pounds by the Government as its official monitor of anti-Muslim hatred, has made multiple claims about attacks on...
View ArticleZack Polanski is on the brink after his Holborn by-election defeat
Zack Polanski’s failure to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is not just a disappointment; it undermines the Green party leader’s entire strategy for his party and will inevitably bring his...
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Labour’s by-election triumph is a sign of Burnham’s signal achievement
Labour has comfortably won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election with 45 per cent of the vote, leaving Zack Polanski a distant second on 32.7 per cent. In the contest caused by Sir Keir Starmer’s...
View ArticleWhy Labour doesn’t want to talk about NHS waiting lists
Remember NHS waiting lists? They used to be a political priority for the Labour government, which would claim it was meeting its targets on getting the length of the lists and the amount of time...
View ArticleWho’s to say Simon Pegg doesn’t have ADHD?
Simon Pegg has announced his diagnosis of ADHD, a condition now so well known that its abbreviation is normally left unexpanded. The BBC explains the good news. Before, Pegg had attributed certain of...
View ArticleThe mudslinging midterms
This is not an edifying election. That’s putting it delicately. An honest look at the quality of the candidates and the arguments they are making is a depressing sight to behold. All across the...
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Mothin Ali’s by-election day blunder
Oh dear. It is polling day in Holborn and St Pancras and the Greens are staring down the face of defeat. Zack Polanski has put his leadership on the line by standing here but it looks as if Andy...
View ArticleAndy Burnham looked ill at ease in Berlin
Andy Burnham has been in Berlin today – his first bilateral diplomatic visit since entering Downing Street nearly three months ago. The Prime Minister met his German counterpart, Friedrich Merz,...
View ArticleRubio picked the wrong Athenian
The Pnyx is a scrubby hill west of the Acropolis where Athenian citizens once crammed together to argue, vote and, now and then, talk themselves into disaster. On Wednesday, as the sun went down behind...
View ArticleA small victory for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Whisper it, but the tide may be turning for one of Britain’s most unpopular, and unfortunate, men. The news that Thames Valley Police have admitted to using unlawful warrants to search Andrew...
View ArticleThe irony of Labour’s crackdown on fake gay asylum seekers
On Tuesday morning, three people were arrested by Home Office immigration enforcement because of their suspected links to a criminal network which is believed to help asylum seekers pretend to be gay,...
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The decade of Trump has been a necessary corrective
The past two centuries have been the era of mass production, of people as well as things. To a degree unimaginable before the Industrial Revolution, all of life has become standardised. Politics is no...
View ArticleBritannia Shield won’t keep the UK safe from Russia, but Israel might
When Donald Trump announced with great bombast his plan for an American ‘Golden Dome’, he promised an all-encompassing shield that would neutralise all incoming aerial threats. It remains no more than...
View ArticleMy best friend Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer was my closest and dearest friend for 40 years. I first met him in 1986 when we were invited to be judges for a Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition. We hit it off immediately....
View ArticleBurnham’s Berlin visit won’t give Merz the boost he’s hoping for
Andy Burnham makes his first visit as Prime Minister to Germany today in an attempt to further strengthen the country’s partnership with Britain. Last year, Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich...
View ArticleFrance’s student protests always go the same way
The world is watching alarming scenes in the burnished boulevards of Paris where riot police are using batons and tear gas on protesting students. Here in France, the spectacle of students clashing...
View ArticleThe Tories love Kemi – but who loves them?
I swear that every year the introductions to leaders’ speeches at party conferences become more and more of a circus. Gone are the days of a weird music hall song by Jim Callaghan or a butchered Python...
View ArticleFourteen things we learned from Kemi Badenoch’s Tory conference speech
Kemi Badenoch delivered her Conservative party conference speech in Birmingham this afternoon. Here are fourteen things we learned from her speech: 1) Kemi Badenoch has her tail up Anyone who read my...
View ArticleInside the October 7 Palestine march
The anti-Israel mob has a new mission: to erase the truth about October 7, 2023. The sadistic violence unleashed by Hamas that day – with mass killing, torture, sexual assaults, beheadings,...
View ArticleIt’s no surprise Burnham wants to delay boosting defence spending
There was a grim inevitability about this. ‘Whitehall sources’, which is almost always code for the government rolling the pitch with the media to prepare for bad news, have suggested that a decision...
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