Did AI write the French book of the year?
Many decades ago (or so it seems, it was actually January 2023, but things move fast in AI-world) I wrote a Spectator piece claiming that The End of Writing was coming, thanks to AI. In return for this...
View ArticleBurnham wins over Trump – but can it last?
Andy Burnham yesterday cleared his first major diplomatic hurdle as his meeting with Donald Trump in Manhattan passed without serious incident. During a 30-minute encounter on the sidelines of the...
View ArticleHigh energy prices are crippling Britain
He is a tax exile, he lives in Monaco, and, perhaps worst of all, he supported Brexit. As Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the founder of the chemicals giant Ineos, accuses the Labour government of ‘economic...
View ArticleTrump’s UN speech was a blasé affair
Donald Trump remains on a renaming tear. During his Tuesday morning address to the United Nations, he declared that his administration will now ‘officially’ call artificial intelligence ‘super...
View ArticleXi has no interest in stabilising relations with Trump
When Xi Jinping arrives in Washington today for a much-anticipated summit with President Donald Trump, the Chinese leader will want to show the world that this is more than just an act of reciprocity...
View ArticleCould there be a second Ceuta invasion?
Messages circulating in Morocco are calling for another mass crossing into Ceuta, Spain’s North African exclave, on Wednesday. Spain has activated preventive measures and Morocco has reinforced the...
View ArticleThe continuity idiocy of Labour’s foreign policy
There was for a time the vaguest sense that things had got better since Andy Burnham took charge. That the insanity and inanity of Starmerism had finally bitten the dust. In some narrow respects this...
View ArticleEd Davey’s reheated speech won’t revive the Lib Dems’ fortunes
Sir Ed Davey today attempted to woo disillusioned One Nation Tories with a pledge to raise the higher-rate income tax threshold from £50,270 to £56,000. The Lib Dem leader also promised to increase the...
View ArticleGermany’s growing Nato influence should shame Britain
In defence and security, two adages form a powerful alliance: money talks, and you get what you pay for. These seem obvious truths, but when an issue is most effectively addressed by spending money,...
View ArticleSarah Mullally and the real problem with interfaith initiatives
The Archbishop of Canterbury has given the country a perfect lesson in interfaith engagement – in what it is, rather than what its practitioners imagine it to be – and, like most perfect lessons, she...
View ArticlePolice impartiality is under threat in Britain
Police chief constables are sleep-walking into one of the gravest threats to the impartiality of British policing we have ever seen. To act ‘without fear or favour’ has been the bedrock of this...
View ArticleTrump pulls the plug on mainstream TV
The unveiling of President Trump’s new helipad on the South Lawn of the White House yesterday was a curious affair. Trump cut a ribbon with the CEO of Lockheed Martin, who donated the helipad, and then...
View ArticleCould slavery reparation demands save Reform UK?
Small boat arrivals are down a bit. Meanwhile, Reform UK has had a difficult year over its donations and seen its vote eaten into by Restore Britain. Compound this with the arrival of a prime minister...
View ArticleIt’s hard to take the Lib Dems seriously
Younger readers may not believe me, but we used to take the Lib Dems seriously, or at least more seriously. Leaders of the party – Paddy Ashdown, Charles Kennedy, Nick Clegg – were, if not wildly...
View ArticleCan the Lib Dems hold their nerve?
In Brighton Rock, Graham Greene’s 1938 work has two characters debating whether people can truly change. Rose, the naïve, tragic café worker hopefully believes they can; Ida, the more grizzled,...
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Government borrowing surged in August
Five weeks out from his first Budget, John Healey is scrambling to make the numbers add up. Figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the government borrowed £18.3 billion...
View ArticleThe problem with Burnham’s specialist rape courts pledge
The meltdown in the criminal justice system has been particularly egregious for victims of rape and sexual violence. They have been forced to wait years for their cases to come to trial, which means...
View ArticleWhat really matters when Burnham meets Trump
Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s honeymoon is over. His plate at 10 Downing Street is full and his office is packed to the brim with a collection of troubles ranging from the UK’s shrimp-like defence...
View ArticleLabour is hooked on benefits
More than half of Labour MPs have a greater number of disability benefit claimants in their constituency than the size of their electoral majority. Some 58 per cent of Labour’s 366 seats in England and...
View ArticleThat Mitchell and Webb Look isn’t racist
For an ideology which proudly pronounces its ethos of respect, compassion and inclusion, hyperliberalism can be decidedly judgmental and supercilious when it comes to appraising the past – and even...
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