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Is it a surprise that Labour want to ban outdoor smoking?

Anyone surprised by leaked documents showing smoking may soon be banned in beer gardens, small parks, outdoor restaurants, open-air spaces at...

29.08.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Is the ‘motherhood penalty’ really behind the UK’s falling birth rate?

Britain is so beset with immediate problems that major issues, ones which could drastically alter our society and the way we live, are being...

08.08.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Working from home won’t fix Britain’s productivity

Why is Britain’s productivity so stubbornly low? Output per worker increased just 0.1 per cent in the year to April. Across swathes of the economy...

19.06.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The Green party is terrifying

Is the Green party the most controversial force in British politics? It’s certainly giving Reform a run for its money. In the past few months, the...

07.06.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The problem with Labour’s free breakfast clubs plan

Labour has been deliberately opaque when it comes to their plans for government, but on one issue Sir Keir Starmer has been uncharacteristically...

31.05.2024 20

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

Britain’s maternity services are letting women down

13.05.2024 50

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

The Tories have not abandoned the centre ground – quite the opposite

It takes some brass neck to cross the floor, but to do it in the manner of Natalie Elphicke also requires considerable levels of delusion. A year ago,...

08.05.2024 10

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

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 40

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 10

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 10

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 9

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 30

The Spectator

Annabel Denham

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