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Tim Shipman: 'Keir Starmer has been a deeply passive prime minister'

Westminster is abuzz after an apparent plan to decapitate Wes Streeting spectacularly backfired. Are the knives now out for the Prime Minister?
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Agony Auntie: Rod Liddle on how to fix the BBC

🔸 Tim Shipman: Inside the Wes plot
🔸 Justin Marozzi: How to be a Norfolk exile
🔸 Madeline Grant: Sydney Sweeney – Hollywood radical
🔸 Allan Mallinson: The army is too woke for war

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November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Are there really more trans people in Newham than Brighton? On this week's episode of Reality Check, Michael Simmons explains why some of Britain's census data may not be reliable.

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November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Gilded age: Tim Shipman on the lessons from Trump's second term

🔸 Douglas Murray: How not to run a city
🔸 Andrew Gimson: Is Zack Polanski our Zohran Mamdani?
🔸 Rebecca Reid: Hell is polyamory
🔸 Margaret Mitchell: The downfall of British apples

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November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Alex Lloyd, a former teacher and head of sixth form in Bournemouth, has been drummed out of the profession for making remarks that many would find intemperate, even insulting, but few would seriously call career-ending.

✍️ Clarissa Hard
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October 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Britain is beset by a bogeyman. A giant, mystical beast that the public are forever being threatened with. Remember last year when a young Welsh choirboy stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance party in Southport?

✍️ Douglas Murray
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October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Last chance for tickets! Our deputy editor Freddy Gray, Ann Coulter, and Peter Hitchens discuss the highs and lows of Trump’s second term.

📆 Monday 3 November
📍 Emmanuel Centre, London
⏰ Starts 7pm
Tickets spectator.co.uk/greatagain
October 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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On Quite right! this week

💥 Michael Gove: I was reported for bullying!
💥 Home Office dysfunction and the grooming gangs inquiry
💥 Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry's 'hard launch'

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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Something extraordinary happened in London this weekend — there was a ‘counter-extremist’ protest that felt more extremist than the thing it was countering.

✍️ Brendan O'Neill
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October 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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My advice to anyone going down: bring as many books as you can with you. Here are five which I think are perfect for helping to navigate our overcrowded prison system.

✍️ Tim Kerr
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October 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is a biopic of ‘the boss’ starring Jeremy Allen White. It is not cradle to grave and do not expect the usual crowd-pleasing beats. There isn’t a single montage.

✍️ Deborah Ross
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Turning 24 came with more than just cake and candles. Alongside the celebrations came a barrage of life-determining questions: when are you getting married? Where do you see yourself living? When will your job become a career?

✍️ Esme Gordon-Craig
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October 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Despite being dropped by his agent and the cancellation of his US tour, the rapper said he would do it all again: ‘If I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again. I’m not regretful of it.'

✍️ Steerpike
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October 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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I was thinking about Birmingham and Powell this week for a number of reasons. Firstly, because he was the MP for nearby Wolverhampton; secondly, because it is where he gave his famous speech.

✍️ Douglas Murray
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October 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Tell me: who has done more for the cause of anti-fascism? Real anti-fascism? Those masked mummy’s boys of the Antifa movement for whom ‘fighting fascism’ means little more than hurling abuse at blue-collar oiks who voted for Donald Trump? ✍️ Brendan O'Neill

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October 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The Polanski surge has come courtesy of a Corbyn-esque policy blitz, including abolishing landlords, legalising recreational drugs, and opening up the nation’s borders to all and sundry. Green voters clearly like what they see. ✍️ Gareth Roberts

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October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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In the popular imagination, it is not easy to distinguish a gentleman from a snob. Yet there are marked differences.

✍️ Philip Womack
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October 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Harry is far from a malicious man – except perhaps where his family are concerned – but he is a thoughtless and arrogant one, as we have seen time and time again.

✍️ Alexander Larman
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October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Among the 488 arrests at the weekend at what the media is still pleased to call ‘pro-Palestine demonstrations’ were many, going by the video and photographic evidence, who were considerably beyond their first flush of youth.

✍️ Gareth Roberts

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October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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The lack of self-awareness of Greta Thunberg and the other flotilla fools who tried to sail to Gaza is astonishing to me.

✍️ Brendan O'Neill
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October 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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The first part of an Ikea trip starts with the hot dog man selling the Ikea-brand hot dogs for £1.40 a pop. This is your last chance to fuel up before you enter the maze.

✍️ Zak Asgard
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September 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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There is something of the weather vane to Rylan, just as there was with Wogan. Peculiar as it might seem for such a strikingly unusual fellow, there is an Everyman quality to him. Starmer and co. should be worried.

✍️ Gareth Roberts
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August 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Neglect smells of mildew and unwashed clothes. It is chaotic, desperate and tragic. But there is also a different, quieter kind of neglect.

✍️ Rosie Lewis
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August 31, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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How many organisations are proscribed in the UK? 84 groups are proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000. They are in addition to 14 which were proscribed under previous legislation.
August 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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New immigration data published today has only reinforced what many have known for some time – the current government strategy of ‘smashing the gangs’ to resolve the UK’s small-boats emergency is failing miserably.

✍️ Rakib Ehsan
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August 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM