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What do plummeting birth rates mean for the future of the planet?

Few Britons will have heard the phrase ‘apocalyptic winter’, but that may soon change. It’s how Italian politicians describe the season when...

22.03.2024 20

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

It’s time to take a chainsaw to the British civil service

Slashing Whitehall waste is a pledge that brings to mind Augustine’s prayer for the Lord to make him virtuous – but not yet. It is something...

04.03.2024 20

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The cynicism behind Labour’s Race Equality Act

Labour is desperate to come across as business-friendly. Last week, the party said it will no longer reinstate a cap on bankers’ bonuses, and that...

05.02.2024 3

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The Tories’ childcare plans aren’t grounded in reality

Of all the reasons why the Conservatives deserve to lose the next general election, their nonsensical childcare policy is among the most convincing....

23.01.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Why is measles on the rise?

Having endured months of restrictions on our freedoms to deal with Covid-19, we now face a major health threat entirely of our own making: vaccine...

22.01.2024 5

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Labour won’t fix Britain’s childcare mess

Labour appeared stumped when, earlier this year, the government announced it would be drastically increasing its ‘free’ childcare provision. Given...

02.01.2024 5

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Will striking doctors bring down the NHS?

Doctors haven’t always been keen on the NHS. A former chairman of the British Medical Association (BMA) said in response to the 1946 National Health...

23.12.2023 20

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The Tories must get serious about welfare reform

You can’t fault Mel Stride for trying. Conscious that our current levels of worklessness are neither sustainable nor likely to win the Tories...

20.11.2023 2

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Snooping on benefit claimants’ bank accounts won’t cut fraud

Another day, another wheeze from a desperate government as it tries to move the polls. Benefit claimants could soon have their bank accounts checked...

07.11.2023 8

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

How to avoid repeating the mistakes of the HS2 fiasco 

Rishi Sunak has finally slayed the white elephant that is HS2 or, perhaps more accurately, cut off its hind legs by scrapping the northern leg. It’s...

06.10.2023 4

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The BMA isn’t striking to protect patients or the NHS, just itself

What a fall from grace. Three years ago, the British Medical Association (BMA) could barely put a foot wrong. It could moralise over Tory failures –...

20.09.2023 6

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The TUC’s misguided war on the Tory strike crackdown

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has vowed to report the government to the UN workers’ rights watchdog over its controversial strikes bill, but how...

12.09.2023 3

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

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