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The British Muslim Trust’s mosque attack claims don’t add up

This week, The Spectator exposed how the British Muslim Trust (BMT), paid millions of pounds by the Government as its official monitor of...

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Is it really true that a mosque is attacked every five days in Britain?

A new body paid millions of pounds to be the Government’s official monitor of anti-Muslim hatred has made multiple false claims about attacks on...

06.10.2026 70

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Cambridge students are being forced to do ‘inclusivity training’

Students in at least one college of Cambridge University will be forced to take mandatory ‘inclusivity training’ from the start of the new term...

30.09.2026 70

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Lawfare / We need the SAS to be nasty

You know what the SAS’s problem is, according to Monica Grenfell, a civil servant who worked at their HQ? They ‘swear all the time,’ she said,...

29.09.2026 10

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Farah Ahmed and the useful idiots of Cambridge University

Students of Cambridge University’s gradual self-destruction will recall our disclosure last month that it has appointed as assistant professor a...

24.09.2026 40

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Empty pews / The Church of England is destroying itself

Many of Britain’s institutions are being destroyed from within by leaders who do not seem to understand what they are for. But even by those...

19.09.2026 20

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The Church of England is destroying itself

Many of Britain’s institutions are being destroyed from within by leaders who do not seem to understand what they are for. But even by those...

19.09.2026 20

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Exposed / The Cambridge University PR attacking Jason Arday’s black critics

A man called Lester Holloway has written a savage attack on black reporters who covered the Jason Arday scandal, saying they “have blood on...

12.09.2026 20

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Exposed: The Cambridge University PR attacking Jason Arday’s black critics

A man called Lester Holloway has written a savage attack on black reporters who covered the Jason Arday scandal, saying they “have blood on...

11.09.2026 20

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The proof that Cambridge’s Jason Arday inquiry will be a whitewash

Cambridge University’s “independent inquiry” into the events around Jason Arday appears already to have decided what its outcome will be. We can...

07.09.2026 20

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Jason Arday / How much longer will Cambridge stand by Simon Woolley?

The principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has insisted he was telling the “truth” when he said that Jason Arday was murdered – or in his...

06.09.2026 20

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How much longer will Cambridge stand by Simon Woolley?

The principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, has insisted he was telling the “truth” when he said that Jason Arday was murdered – or in his...

05.09.2026 20

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Simon Woolley is not fit to lead a Cambridge college

A man stands at a rally in Trafalgar Square, ranting that Jason Arday was murdered in a ‘lynching’ and ‘public assassination’ by ‘rabid...

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Middle East Eye seems to get stupider and stupider

Breaking news: Jason Arday was telling the truth. That, at least, is the verdict of Middle East Eye, a generously funded outlet based in London which...

26.08.2026 20

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Farah Ahmed: study engineering ‘to produce weaponry for Jihad’

Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor a woman who wrote that...

25.08.2026 60

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The trouble with Cambridge’s education faculty goes all the way to the top

Professor Hilary Cremin, the head of Cambridge University’s education faculty, is best known as the woman who fawned over her new hire, Jason Arday,...

20.08.2026 30

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Why is this Cambridge-linked project promoting an Islamic curriculum?

An academic project hosted by Cambridge University promotes an “Islamic curriculum” which tells 12-year-olds that Hamas is an “excuse that...

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University challenged / Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?

An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an...

16.08.2026 30

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Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?

An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an...

15.08.2026 40

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Meet Farah Ahmed, Jason Arday’s colleague

After the Jason Arday disaster, here is new evidence that things have gone deeply wrong at Cambridge University. We can reveal that a former supporter...

11.08.2026 30

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Rod was the most exciting boss I ever had

The best word for my feelings about Rod Liddle’s death is one that Rod was occasionally heard to use himself. Fuck. Rod was my editor at...

04.08.2026 30

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Burnham isn’t being honest about his bus fare cap

Al Gore never quite recovered from claiming, in 1999, that ‘I took the initiative in creating the internet.’ The former vice-president spent the...

23.07.2026 30

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Burnham cannot allow Ali Milani near power

Andy Burnham’s pledge to be ‘for all of us’ may include hiring a man for his Downing Street staff who called 9/11 a ‘false flag’ that the US...

20.07.2026 30

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Green council plots to ‘resist’ immigration raids

Lewisham’s Green council plans to officially collaborate with a group which seeks to ‘resist raids’ on illegal migrants ‘at all costs’, and...

16.07.2026 20

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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...

07.07.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 50

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 20

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 60

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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

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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),...

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