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The interim report of the Timms review of Pip is a walking contradiction. With the cost of the Personal Independence Payment expected to rise by £41...
‘That’s so Brent.’ You’ll hear that phrase a lot. I hear it a lot. I grew up in Willesden Green, a pocket of north-west London in the borough...
Somewhere at the bottom of the Fleet Street food chain is the hapless junior reporter known as the ‘milk bottle’. So-called because most of their...
If the Battle of Waterloo was won on Eton’s playing fields – as Wellington allegedly said – might Xi Jinping’s 21st-century ambitions for...
‘It’s basically a dictatorship,’ one insider tells me. If you want to build anything in Britain’s second city, you have to get permission from...
For the first time at a gig, I spent much of Harry Styles’s show thinking about the maths. He’s cunningly doing his 68 shows in seven cities, with...
For British readers of a certain age, wrestling occupies a very particular place in the collective memory. Long before the triumph of World Wrestling...
Cuba’s revolutionary spirit is giving out. Donald Trump has called on Cubans to ‘make a deal before it’s too late’ and has threatened military...
‘Manchesterism,’ Andy Burnham declared in his Makerfield by-election campaign video, ‘is the end of neoliberalism.’ The path to power, he...
I am always suspicious when the word ‘aristocrat’ finds its way into the press. Usually, the person in question is not an aristocrat at all, but a...
Tonight, Erling Haaland and Harry Kane should be playing together, not against each other. Partially because Haaland is a Yorkshireman, born in Leeds,...
On paper, England should beat Norway in their World Cup quarter-final clash today. They have the Premier League: the richest clubs, the biggest...
Homer’s Odyssey is a sweeping, layered epic. It reflects the legacy of an oral tradition of singers and storytellers from across the Greek-speaking...
In an age in which we continue to hear so much about our ‘anxious generation’, it’s heartening to read about one young individual who hasn’t...
Westminster is reeling from the news that police believe Ann Widdecombe, the former shadow Home Secretary, was murdered. She was found dead in her...
Ann Widdecombe has died at the age of 78. Devon and Cornwall Police have launched a murder investigation into her death. Here, Rachel Johnson pays...
Devon and Cornwall Police have launched a murder investigation into the ‘suspicious’ death of Ann Widdecombe. The firebrand former MP, 78, was...
One of the hottest debates in Westminster today is whether Nigel Farage’s decision to quit as an MP and trigger a by-election was an act of...
Madrid’s regional parliament has passed what is being called the ‘conceived unborn child’ law. As soon as a pregnancy is medically accredited it...
No-one has spent more time opposing Britain’s net zero target than me. I wrote a whole book on it as well as dozens of columns. I have addressed...
Now that he’s officially the Prime Minister in waiting, Andy Burnham is trying to work out how to stop Labour MPs from turning against him in the...
The annual Twelfth of July celebrations are about to take place in Northern Ireland, over a long and hopefully sunny Bank Holiday weekend. In some...
A police officer was hospitalised on Thursday night in London as Moroccans vented their fury at losing to France in the World Cup quarter-final. Riot...
Jude Bellingham has been England’s star man at the World Cup. In England’s 3–2 victory over Mexico on Monday, the Real Madrid attacker not only...
The Green party is considering lifting economic sanctions on Iran and improving diplomatic relations with its fundamentalist Islamic regime, The...
Shabir Ahmed, the leader of the Rochdale rape gang, is for now a free man, living in the UK, having served 14 years after being convicted of 30 child...
It is so-called ‘Super Saturday’ tomorrow with high-class racing at Newmarket, York and Ascot, and that’s good news for some of the...
Journalists are split, the old joke says, about whether or not North London is the centre of the universe. Half of them think it is, the other half...
The couple who were on a climate crisis camping trip in Ballydehob messaged me in a desperate state. ‘We’re cold and wet! Please can we come?’...
These days, the 1990s seem to be regarded – especially by people too young to remember them – as a prelapsarian idyll. In Britain, London swung...
A stray thought of my own while watching Iranian drones tracing fiery paths over the Gulf, a stray quote from Ukraine and the background rumble of...
When Reform high command gathered in the boardroom of their Millbank headquarters last Tuesday, the meeting was supposed to be to select candidates in...
To be on the cusp of their nation’s greatest triumph and see it collapse in ten minutes was too much for many of the Egyptian side that lost 3-2 to...
My sister and her friends were watching the conclusion of Arthur Fery’s third round tiebreaker with Aperol-laced bated breath. Curiously enough, the...
Move over Kim Kardashian, with your cover shots for Paper magazine. Same for you, Taylor Swift, with tickets for your Eras tour. For there’s a...
The poor old Establishment! In the 71 years since the expression was first coined in The Spectator, it’s never taken such a kicking. In his speech...
You frequently hear the charge today that the social contract in Britain has broken down. And there is much evidence to support this accusation. The...
Does China have a plan to destroy Starlink, the low-earth orbit satellite system which provides internet connectivity to tens of millions of people...
The American right has developed a morbid fascination with Britain over the past two years, particularly after Elon Musk began tweeting about grooming...
Just been in to nominate myself… hopefully third time lucky 😂 pic.twitter.com/I6n7FS0JFr— Andy Burnham (@andyburnham) July 9, 2026 Just been in...
Oh man what a satisfying video, brutal stuff pic.twitter.com/GgU7JOkhqR— Adam Wren (@aswren) July 9, 2026 Oh man what a satisfying video, brutal...
Labour MPs today lined up to kiss the feet of their new king and Britain’s inevitable next prime minister, Andy Burnham. Nominations from the...
Well, well, well. After disgracing Britain’s proud policing tradition by arresting Graham Linehan over his trans tweets, the Met Police has now...
For the first time at a gig, I spent much of Harry Styles’s show thinking about the maths. He’s cunningly doing his 68 shows in seven cities, with...
Labour came to power in 2024 with five stated missions: to improve economic growth, the NHS, street safety, clean energy and the distribution of...
A quartet of news stories all point in the same troubling direction. First, easyJet is about to become the latest notable name to leave the London...
As any Catholic master of ceremonies will tell you, it takes only the tiniest sartorial mishap to lend a Python-esque flavour to moments of the utmost...
Andy Burnham is a lucky politician. And Nigel Farage has just given him another piece of surprising good fortune. The Reform leader’s decision to...
Has grace-and-favour accommodation now fallen from grace – and favour, too? In recent days, we have learned that both our head of state and our...
The American right has developed a morbid fascination with Britain over the past two years, particularly after Elon Musk began tweeting about grooming...
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