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The Green party councillor being investigated by the GMC

A newly-elected Green councillor who is also an NHS GP is being investigated by the General Medical Council after The Spectator revealed that she...

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The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The Muslim Council of Britain is losing relevance

It’s nearly time for the Muslim Council of Britain’s annual general meeting, where its new leadership will be elected. Alas, almost no-one wants...

13.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Will Labour suspend the National Association of Muslim Police?

The leaders of Britain’s Jews have raised ‘serious questions concerning police impartiality’ and asked that the National Association of Muslim...

11.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Politics / Meet the Green councillor who demanded ‘heads on sticks’

The Greens have given a key post in their new ruling cabinet in the London borough of Lambeth to a man who has justified violence, condemned...

09.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Extremism / Did Haringey’s new Labour leader once defend Jihadi John?

It’s not just the Greens who attract people with shameful records of extremism. In the London borough of Haringey, Labour has appointed a former...

07.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Haringey’s new Labour leader once called Jihadi John a ‘lovely boy’

It’s not just the Greens who attract people with shameful records of extremism. In the London borough of Haringey, Labour has appointed a former...

06.06.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The disturbing truth about the National Association of Muslim Police

The official representative body for Muslim police officers in Britain has branded Zionism “one of the manifestations of anti-Muslim hatred,”...

05.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

MEN at work / How the Manchester media failed to scrutinise Andy Burnham

‘Our Andy’ is, of course, Manchester – and Manchester is, of course, him. In recognition of that, no worshipper at the Church of Burnham is more...

27.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Burnham’s buses shows why he will probably fail as prime minister

It’s one of those political facts that everyone parrots without really knowing whether it’s true: Andy Burnham has, in his own words,...

22.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Politics / How the wheels came off the Brexit bus

The wheels have come off the Brexit bus. The Spectator is grieved to report that the famous red ‘Vote Leave’ coach, E14 ACK, which drove Boris...

16.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

How the wheels came off the Brexit bus

The wheels have come off the Brexit bus. The Spectator is grieved to report that the famous red ‘Vote Leave’ coach, E14 ACK, which drove Boris...

16.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The disturbing truth about Britain’s Islamopopulism movement

One of the under-reported stories of the local elections is the steady growth of Muslim independents. Including Lutfur Rahman’s Aspire in Tower...

11.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Did antisemitism cost the Greens at the local elections?

Did the Greens’ racist candidates cost them a majority in one of their top targets? The London borough of Lambeth could have been designed by a...

10.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Politics / What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?

Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the Green...

10.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

What will the Green party do with its new racist councillors?

Saiqa Ali, the woman who allegedly said that Donald Trump is ‘owned by Jews’, became a Lambeth councillor yesterday, elected under the Green...

09.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

This Green candidate thinks the UK is a ‘terrorist state’

A Green candidate at tomorrow’s election has called the UK a ‘terrorist state,’ blamed Jeremy Corbyn’s demise on the ‘web of lies Israel...

06.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The Green candidate who thinks Iran should bomb the White House

A Green candidate in this week’s council elections says the White House should be blown up, described Hamas taking ‘filthy hostages,’ and denies...

05.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

March of the Greenshirts: Polanski’s party are Britain’s real racists

“Back us to stop the far right,” say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far right? Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate in next week’s...

02.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The Greens are facing a reckoning

On subjects related to Jews, Zack Polanski, Mothin Ali and the other political children in the new Green party have been playing with fire. They are...

01.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Local elections / March of the Greenshirts: Polanski’s party are the real racists

‘Back us to stop the far right,’ say the Greens. But what if parts of the Greens are the far right? Saiqa Ali, a Green candidate in next week’s...

30.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The Green party candidate who wants to ‘burn Zionism to the ground’

A Green candidate who is also a GP has repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to the ground.’ Rebecca Jones, a vegan...

23.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Meet the Green candidate who thinks Zionists killed 20 million Christians

A Green Party council candidate in Bournemouth says “the Zionists killed 20 million Christians” and are “trying to control the world.” Feda...

21.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Why is this Green candidate sharing an anti-semitic post?

A terror attack on a synagogue was “not anti-semitism” but was “revenge” for Israel “murdering people,” according to a video promoted by a...

17.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The hateful posts of yet another Green party candidate

The extremism of some in the Green party is increasingly being compared to Labour in Jeremy Corbyn’s time. But there is a critical difference. Most...

15.04.2026 40

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Alter ego / The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Alter ego / The trouble with the Green party’s Ifhat Shaheen

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 40

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Why is Ifhat Shaheen a Green party candidate?

The Green party’s embrace of extremists is gathering pace. Let me introduce you to Ifhat Shaheen (also known as Ifhat Shaheen-Smith or Ifhat Smith),...

12.04.2026 80

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

What we get wrong about extremism

Last year I obtained a leaked copy of the new government’s ‘counter-extremism sprint’. It caused a huge political backlash – and was disowned...

02.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

What Hope not Hate doesn’t understand about liberal values

Even by its own recent standards, the latest investigation from the anti-extremism group Hope not Hate was fabulously, joyously, Rizla Micron-thin....

26.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

All the worst people like the ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition

Not worried enough yet by the government’s new definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’? Here’s another red flag: the mild, nuanced, or downright...

18.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

This ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ definition is truly sinister

The government’s new official definition of ‘anti-Muslim hostility’ is 144 words long. But in a sign that even ministers now realise what a mess...

10.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Politics / The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy

Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of a “special...

07.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The good and bad news about Labour’s leaked social cohesion strategy

Some things in the government’s leaked social cohesion strategy will be deeply neuralgic to many. There is the creation of a “special...

06.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

The real Alaa Abd el-Fattah scandal

02.01.2026 40

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

It’s time to admit that high-speed rail is a dead end

15.09.2025 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

Miqdaad Versi and the troubling war on ‘Islamophobia’

09.07.2025 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan

What won’t TfL staff stop fare dodgers?

03.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Andrew Gilligan