The Spectator
Watch out James!
It’s looking up for The Spectator’s TV Critic
The EEC referendum: 50 years on
Described by the Sun as a battle between the moderate majority and lunatics
Are they in the room with you now?
The ongoing Tory problem
Leader of the year™
Might match-fixing explain Kemi Badenoch’s questions at PMQs?
Questioning “Kemi’s” comments
What Steerpike did not say
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
The art of statesmanship
An exhibition at the Wallace Collection shows how Britain’s greatest wartime leader found solace and satisfaction in painting
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
Britain lacks a party of the young
Britain’s alienated young are drifting leftwards because no serious movement on the right is speaking to their interests
Manchesterism is dead in the water
Andy Burnham already appears to have abandoned hope for meaningful change
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Why Mali matters
Terrorism is spiralling out of control in West Africa
Nice Tice
Can Richard Tice clean up Reform’s image? Or a park?
The truth about the “Quiet Revival”
Churches have been growing in Britain — just not all of them
Gregory Halting
Procrastinator extraordinaire
Why nobody likes a smarty pants
Is it reasonable to conflate genuine intellectual endeavour with undue concern for supposed accuracy?
Dumbed-down democracy
“Public opinion” is useless when the public is largely ignorant