The Spectator
Britain’s Trump card
George III has not been well remembered on either side of the Atlantic. Despite reigning for almost 60 years, in Britain he is known, if at all, for losing the Thirteen Colonies and his madness in his later life. But in America, he is the villain of...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
Power struggle
Economic forecasting was created, J.K. Galbraith said, to make astrology look respectable. It is not difficult to imagine what the great Keynesian economist would have thought of Rachel Reeves’s Spring Statement this week. It was pure crystal...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
Hollowed out
‘Shape without form, shade without colour. Paralysed force, gesture without motion.’ T.S Eliot’s lines from ‘The Hollow Men’ sum up in 11 words the emptiness of Sir Keir Starmer’s administration. Nowhere is the shade darker and the force more paralysed...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
To lead or not to lead
Wes Streeting is known to be a Spectator reader. Pinned on the Health Secretary’s office wall, as he revealed in an interview last Easter, is a leading article of ours asking whether he was ‘the Hamlet of the Health Service’. Streeting was ‘so riled’...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
Developing next generation skills
A world-class defence sector depends on a world-class skills base. Across the UK, our apprentices are contributing to a national endeavour, developing the advanced technologies and capabilities needed to protect the nation. Since 2020, we’ve invested...
Read Full Story (Page 2)
Take back control
It’s been almost a full decade since Britain voted to leave the European Union. Inside Labour, whatever words are muttered about accepting the referendum’s result, the consensus remains that Brexit was a mistake. Ministers compete to see who can flirt...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
More in common
In the summer of 1643, as the dispute between Charles I and parliament raged on, Sir William Waller wrote to his friend Ralph Hopton to lament with ‘what a perfect hatred’ he detested ‘this war without an enemy’. The hardening of hearts between the...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
A cold house for Jews
Are Jews safe in Britain? To even have to ask the question is extraordinary. But a recent survey has found that half of British Jews feel they do not have a long-term future in the UK and 61 per cent have considered leaving. Those figures are shocking,...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
Palisade of paper
Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolas Maduro was a brilliantly executed coup. It was also an exhibition of America’s hard power, power that has underpinned the rules-based international order that protected America’s allies for decades. Now those allies...
Read Full Story (Page 3)
Britain’s potential
In 1956, Malta held a referendum on joining the United Kingdom. Since the islands were economically reliant on the Royal Navy, it was unsurprising that threequarters of those voting believed their future lay in integrating with their colonial masters....
Read Full Story (Page 3)
All ye faithful
Ameeting planned in secret. A message deemed subversive. The authorities both antagonised and confused. The gatherings of the early Church in the time of the Roman Empire? Or Tommy Robinson’s proposed carol concert at an as yet undisclosed London...
Read Full Story (Page 3)