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How Black Lives Matter created Jason Arday

Jason Arday, I miss you already. The resignation of the Cambridge professor, sporting Adonis, charity-fundraising extraordinaire and credibly accused...

08.08.2026 40

The Spectator

Tom Slater

How Black Lives Matter created Jason Arday

Jason Arday, I miss you already. The resignation of the Cambridge professor, sporting Adonis, charity-fundraising extraordinaire and credibly accused...

07.08.2026 50

The Spectator

Tom Slater

Reform shouldn’t have reported Polanski to the police

Picture the scene. Nigel Farage unwittingly shares an Instagram snap featuring a grinning man wearing a T-shirt with a noose on it, which jokes about...

28.07.2026 30

The Spectator

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Why is Polanski downplaying anti-Semitism in the Green party?

Zack Polanski is furious. Not so much with the stabbing of two Jews in Golders Green yesterday. So far, he has managed one perfunctory tweet about...

01.05.2026 30

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The evil of the Brighton beach gang rape

Brighton beach, swelled by sun-seekers on hot summer days, becomes one big after party after dark. Revellers from the seafront nightclubs will spill...

24.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Tom Slater

Pop / Morrissey is pop’s prophet of England

Morrissey is back. And he’s sassy as hell. At the O2 on Saturday night, the once-waifish Smiths frontman turned stocky solo crooner cast shade on...

10.03.2026 30

The Spectator

Tom Slater

Morrissey is pop’s prophet of England

Morrissey is back. And he’s sassy as hell. At the O2 on Saturday night, the once-waifish Smiths frontman turned stocky solo crooner cast shade on...

05.03.2026 20

The Spectator

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Tourette’s / What happened to ‘inclusivity’ at the Baftas?

You know, I’m starting to think those #BeKind folk aren’t half as kind as they make themselves out to be. How else to explain this meltdown over a...

25.02.2026 20

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The question we keep asking after Afghan sex attacks

12.02.2026 30

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Peter Mandelson and the phoney moral superiority of Labour

04.02.2026 30

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Why are illegal migrants welcome in Britain but not Eva Vlaardingerbroek?

15.01.2026 30

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Starmer's X crackdown is no joke

09.01.2026 30

The Spectator

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Paul Lumber's death isn't funny. Why does that need saying?

16.12.2025 30

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Tom Slater

Paul Lumber's death isn't funny. Why does that need saying?

15.12.2025 20

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Virtue signalling / The celebrity ECHR letter is pious posturing

10.12.2025 20

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Does Paloma Faith know what 'far right' means?

04.12.2025 40

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Border farce / No, Shabana Mahmood isn’t far right

18.11.2025 20

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Cancellation / The cowardly publishing world betrayed Kate Clanchy

05.11.2025 20

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The fall of Jess Phillips

24.10.2025 10

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Roll with it / Britain is having its own gilets jaunes moment

03.09.2025 20

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Britain is having its own gilets jaunes moment

29.08.2025 30

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Britain is having its own gilets jaunes moment

28.08.2025 20

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Will Donald Trump meet Lucy Connolly?

26.08.2025 20

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The Bell Hotel’s closure is not the end of the story

20.08.2025 20

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Labour must confront the uncomfortable causes of immigration protests

24.07.2025 20

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Hot air / ‘Climate denial’ shouldn’t be illegal

16.07.2025 30

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Finally, a Harry Potter star has backed JK Rowling

09.06.2025 20

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Thom Yorke has exposed the intolerance of the ‘pro-Palestine’ set

01.06.2025 30

The Spectator

Tom Slater