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Labour's toxic budget, Zelensky in trouble & Hitler's genitalia
It’s time to scrap the budget, argues political editor Tim Shipman this week. An annual fiscal event only allows the Chancellor to tinker round the e…
7 months ago
BBC in crisis, the Wes Streeting plot & why 'flakes' are the worst
Can the BBC be fixed? After revelations of bias from a leaked dossier, subsequent resignations and threats of legal action from the US President, the…
7 months, 1 week ago
Trump’s gilded age, the ‘hell’ of polyamory & is Polanski Britain’s Mamdani?
A year on from his presidential election victory, what lessons can Britain learn from Trump II? Tim Shipman writes this week’s cover piece from Washi…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Embracing the occult, going underground & lost languages
Big Tech is under the spell of the occult, according to Damian Thompson. Artificial intelligence is now so incredible that even educated westerners a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Left-wing Ultras, Reform intellectuals & capitalist sex robots
‘The Ultras’ are the subject of The Spectator’s cover story this week – this is the new Islamo-socialist alliance that has appeared on the left of Br…
8 months ago
Chinese spies, Vance’s rise & is French parenting supreme?
‘Here be dragons’ declares the Spectator’s cover story this week, as it looks at the continuing fallout over the collapse of the trial of two politic…
8 months, 1 week ago
Jewish fear, 'the elimination of motherhood' & remembering Jilly Cooper
The Spectator’s cover story this week looks at ‘the fear’ gripping Jewish people amidst rising antisemitism. Reflecting on last week’s attack in Manc…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Kemi's fightback, the cult of Thatcher & debunking British myths
The Spectator’s cover story this week is an interview with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch ahead of the Tory party conference. Reflecting on the cr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Labour’s Terminator, Silicon Valley’s ‘Antichrist’ obsession & can charity shops survive?
First: who has the Home Secretary got in her sights?
Political editor Tim Shipman profiles Shabana Mahmood in the Spectator’s cover article this week.…
9 months ago
Weimar Britain, the war on science & are you a competitive reader?
First: a warning from history
Politics moving increasingly from the corridors of power into the streets, economic insecurity exacerbating tensions an…
9 months, 1 week ago