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The most influential magazine in Britain. Politics, global affairs, culture and lifestyle. News, commentary and analysis
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  • On the eve of a by-election that could sound the death knell for his political career, Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to fight on. From the G7 summit in France, the Prime Minister made a few last-ditch attempts to try to put Andy Burnham off plunging the knife into his back a
  • LIVE: The Spectator Brexit Debate Ten years on from the Brexit referendum – the vote meant to set us free from a fractious relationship – Britain is far from taking flight. Was Brexit a mistake?
  • When the actor Armie Hammer looked like he was on the verge of becoming a big star, it was an endless source of amusement for gossip columnists and sarcastic online commenters that he never quite got to the A-list. It wasn't that he didn't get the roles; leads in everything
  • On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Voters head to the polls tomorrow in Makerfield for what could be the most consequential by-election in modern British history. If Andy Burnham wins by a significant margin, he will be heralded as the man Labour need to beat Reform
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  • Violence, shooting and driving fast cars are not usually the first things that spring to mind when Whitehall talks about the 'lived experience' of the British public. Yet Policy Lab, an 'experimental' cross-government unit based at the Department for Education, appears to think
  • This parliament still has, potentially, three whole years to run, and yet it already feels zombified. It's like the end of the French Third Republic but with fewer cigarettes and an even less impressive defence policy. Labour is stuck in a depressed, sexless marriage with
  • Claire Coutinho emerged as the Tory frontbencher taking deputy prime minister's questions today, with the shadow energy secretary focusing on oil and gas licences and cabinet dysfunction. Those two topics are more closely related this week than usual: Coutinho wanted to exploit
  • In a telling exchange on Radio 4 last week, during the furore following John Healey's resignation, Debbie Abrahams, the Labour MP and chair of the work and pensions committee, was asked about funding for defence. She said that she supported the target of spending 3.5 per cent
  • Tickets are selling fast for An evening with Rory Sutherland: The world according to the Wiki Man. Rory is widely regarded as one of the most original and entertaining thinkers of our time. Since launching his column in The Spectator nearly two decades ago, his blend of
  • Ten years ago this week, the British MP Jo Cox was murdered. In his post on social media platform X marking the anniversary of that horrifying crime, Keir Starmer writes, in his very first line, that her killer was 'a far-right terrorist'. Quite reasonably. It is obviously
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