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The Spectator heads for civil war
The magazine has been taken over by the same man who runs GB News. Andrew Neil has already gone – will the editor cling on?
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Daniel Hannan: deluded, dangerous and in denial
His life’s work has been a catastrophe – and now Hannan’s latest Brexit argument will be music to Putin’s ears
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The mystery of Robert Jenrick's baseball cap
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Jonathan Gullis, Mel Stride and more
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Framing Starmer
How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher
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How the Express keeps on digging
Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration
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Scottish independence has lost its salience for younger generations
During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar
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It’s time for Mandrake to say goodbye
After 25 years, our diarist lays to rest the nation’s most feared and revered diary column
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Lie of the week: ‘The cost of not having a border for one day was £281m’
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The danger in Labour’s briefing battle
The public is sick of political in-fighting, so Keir Starmer must clamp down on No.10 leaks
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Whatever happened to good news?
It’s time Labour did something big and transformative to save us from a news cycle of misery
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Farage has put Clacton "on the world stage", claims Farage
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at GB News, Lee Anderson, Ben Habib and more
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Farage’s finances become the talk of Westminster
The Reform leader’s entry in the register of MPs’ interests made for fascinating reading. But were items missing?
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Reform's conference sounds like a grand old time
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, Harry Cole and more
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The truth about Matt Goodwin’s big win
Getting honorary status at the university he has just left is nothing special
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The end of the right wing press
They’re out of touch, out of power and running out of readers
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Food Standards Agency to blame for riots, suggests Reform MP
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick and more
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Matt Goodwin’s fall into the abyss
How a once respected academic embarked on a “sad, depressing journey of radicalisation”
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The Trump-Vance ticket is laughable
Ironically, the Trump campaign is trying to paint Kamala Harris’s likeability as a joke
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The prisoner swap worked in Putin's favour
Vadim Krasikov is a free man. Putin wanted his hitman back
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Disinformation station
GB News, the populists’ TV channel, has long tiptoed on the edge. Will making excuses for thugs finally send it over?
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Lie of the week: “I trained as a reporter in Glasgow. Don’t tell me what tough looks like”
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Letters: Tory rhetoric is to blame for this disorder
Who is going to tell this now extremely nasty party that they are responsible for the riots on the streets of towns and cities up and down the country?
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The BBC has questions to answer
At some point Jonathan Munro, editorial grandee and BBC director of journalism, will have to explain what he knew and when
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The US-Russia prisoner swap shows how journalists risk being used as geopolitical bargaining chips
The United States, then, has to live with the fact it helped free people serving time for crimes as severe as murder
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The truth about Andrew Neil
The tetchy media dinosaur who vilified Britain’s poorest people, published the work of racists and got it wrong about Brexit and AIDS
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Is Nadine Dorries heading for the Strictly dancefloor?
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Tom Tugendhat, Robert Jenrick, Darren Grimes and more
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The Tory press’s winter fuel handout hypocrisy
A payment to all OAPs was unjustified and unsustainable
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JD Vance's questionable rise to political fame
Vance is an odd choice. Insights from his memoir only make the decision stranger
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Gove’s train has left the station
With no job forthcoming and still to find a permanent home, Gove is becoming acquainted with the joys of public transport
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Trump lands the big endorsement - Kerry Katona
Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at James Cleverly, the Greens, Michael Fabricant and more
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Lie of the week: ‘The politics of the subcontinent are currently playing out on the streets of Leeds’
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Sanity is coming home
Three weeks in, Starmer has brought Britain closer to the EU, and outraged Brexiteers. What’s not to like?