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Watch Piers Morgan in conversation with Andrew Doyle as they discuss Woke Is Dead and the cultural shift reshaping politics, media, and public debate. Subscribe to The Spectator for £1 a month for your first 3 months to unlock the full recording.

Watch Piers Morgan in conversation with Andrew Doyle as they discuss Woke Is Dead and the cultural shift reshaping politics, media, and public debate. Subscribe to The Spectator for £1 a month for your first 3 months to unlock the full recording.

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Whatever, people detest him. They think he is useless, bland and untrustworthy, indecisive and stupid. In the words of an elderly gentleman in my village: ‘I wouldn’t waste my piss watta on him if he were burning to death.’ You get the mildly homicidal flavour. The question, then, is whether Sir Keir is a singularity, a black hole of perceived badness, surpassing everything bad that went before it. ✍️ Rod Liddle

Whatever, people detest him. They think he is useless, bland and untrustworthy, indecisive and stupid. In the words of an elderly gentleman in my village: ‘I wouldn’t waste my piss watta on him if he were burning to death.’ You get the mildly homicidal flavour. The question, then, is whether Sir Keir is a singularity, a black hole of perceived badness, surpassing everything bad that went before it. ✍️ Rod Liddle

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It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish compatriots. The anti-Semitic atrocity in Golders Green today is further brutish proof of this unsettling fact. We’ve had firebombings at synagogues, the murder of Jews in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and now this frenzied knifing of Jews in London. There can be no more equivocating – this is a moral emergency. The scenes from Golders Green are truly grim. Video clips show the suspect wielding his knife with demented fury at two visibly Jewish men. One is reportedly in his 70s, the other in his 30s – both sustained serious injuries, but are reportedly in a stable condition. Their crime? They were out, proud Jews on the streets of London in 2026. If this doesn’t force a moral reckoning with the state of our nation, nothing will. The pessimist in me is not holding his breath. After all, mere hours after the slaying of two Jews at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester in October, bourgeois mobs were on the streets hollering ‘Globalise the intifada’. Two dead Jews weren’t enough for them, it seems – they wanted more, they wanted the destruction of the Jewish state itself. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

It is undeniable now: war has been declared on British Jews. A fascistic crusade is being waged against our Jewish compatriots. The anti-Semitic atrocity in Golders Green today is further brutish proof of this unsettling fact. We’ve had firebombings at synagogues, the murder of Jews in Manchester on Yom Kippur, and now this frenzied knifing of Jews in London. There can be no more equivocating – this is a moral emergency. The scenes from Golders Green are truly grim. Video clips show the suspect wielding his knife with demented fury at two visibly Jewish men. One is reportedly in his 70s, the other in his 30s – both sustained serious injuries, but are reportedly in a stable condition. Their crime? They were out, proud Jews on the streets of London in 2026. If this doesn’t force a moral reckoning with the state of our nation, nothing will. The pessimist in me is not holding his breath. After all, mere hours after the slaying of two Jews at the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester in October, bourgeois mobs were on the streets hollering ‘Globalise the intifada’. Two dead Jews weren’t enough for them, it seems – they wanted more, they wanted the destruction of the Jewish state itself. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

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Take the Greens’ Urdu election ad urging voters in Gorton and Denton, where only 82 per cent speak English as their main language, to elect Hannah Spencer in Thursday’s by-election. It’s easy to mistake this for inclusivity or good intentions but it is neither. Addressing the electorate along sectarian lines is not inclusive. In fact, it is exclusive. ✍️ Stephen Daisley Article |

Take the Greens’ Urdu election ad urging voters in Gorton and Denton, where only 82 per cent speak English as their main language, to elect Hannah Spencer in Thursday’s by-election. It’s easy to mistake this for inclusivity or good intentions but it is neither. Addressing the electorate along sectarian lines is not inclusive. In fact, it is exclusive. ✍️ Stephen Daisley Article |

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The 28-year-old gave up reading International Law and Legal Studies as a PhD student at King's College London to run for parliament. Her full name is actually Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey and she is, of course, obsessed with Palestine. Unearthed videos of the qualified English barrister on social media appear to show that she has significantly dialled up her Scottish accent since becoming an MP, having previously spoken in a rather posh English tone. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

The 28-year-old gave up reading International Law and Legal Studies as a PhD student at King's College London to run for parliament. Her full name is actually Pyla Lara Bird-Leakey and she is, of course, obsessed with Palestine. Unearthed videos of the qualified English barrister on social media appear to show that she has significantly dialled up her Scottish accent since becoming an MP, having previously spoken in a rather posh English tone. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

239,585 views • 9 days ago

The Conservatives and Reform UK go head-to-head in The Fight for the Right. Watch the debate featuring Nick Timothy, Claire Coutinho, Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger. Subscribe to The Spectator for £1 a month for your first 3 months to unlock the full recording.

The Conservatives and Reform UK go head-to-head in The Fight for the Right. Watch the debate featuring Nick Timothy, Claire Coutinho, Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger. Subscribe to The Spectator for £1 a month for your first 3 months to unlock the full recording.

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Ozempic has a new side effect: divorce New research shows people on ‘fat jabs’ are twice as likely to end their marriages. What’s going on?

Ozempic has a new side effect: divorce New research shows people on ‘fat jabs’ are twice as likely to end their marriages. What’s going on?

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This was when Badenoch started to get really personal. She said Starmer was being generous 'to stick by his ministers, because they didn't stick by him'. She added: 'To be fair, they're not all traitors and deserters. Some of his cabinet have been loyal. Loyal and incompetent. As Bridget Phillipson and the majority of her comrades refused to move their arms at all, Badenoch revelled in pointing out that only a couple of Labour MPs had raised their hands. Badenoch then called Phillipson a 'spiteful class warrior' and said her appointment was a mistake. ✍️ Isabel Hardman Article | | Isabel Hardman

This was when Badenoch started to get really personal. She said Starmer was being generous 'to stick by his ministers, because they didn't stick by him'. She added: 'To be fair, they're not all traitors and deserters. Some of his cabinet have been loyal. Loyal and incompetent. As Bridget Phillipson and the majority of her comrades refused to move their arms at all, Badenoch revelled in pointing out that only a couple of Labour MPs had raised their hands. Badenoch then called Phillipson a 'spiteful class warrior' and said her appointment was a mistake. ✍️ Isabel Hardman Article | | Isabel Hardman

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Allahu Akbar, one and all. It’s been a big night for Green and independent candidates standing in the Gaza – sorry, British – local elections. While Reform has much to celebrate in gaining ground across the country, so too, it seems, do the people of Palestine, who now find themselves represented in town hall decision-making about bin collections and potholes nationwide. As if they hadn’t suffered enough, eh? Successful pro-Palestine candidates have wasted no time taking to social media to express their pride at winning swathes of British voters. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

Allahu Akbar, one and all. It’s been a big night for Green and independent candidates standing in the Gaza – sorry, British – local elections. While Reform has much to celebrate in gaining ground across the country, so too, it seems, do the people of Palestine, who now find themselves represented in town hall decision-making about bin collections and potholes nationwide. As if they hadn’t suffered enough, eh? Successful pro-Palestine candidates have wasted no time taking to social media to express their pride at winning swathes of British voters. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

370,785 views • 1 month ago

A two-part interview with one of Britain’s most debated strategists, Dominic Cummings.

A two-part interview with one of Britain’s most debated strategists, Dominic Cummings.

1,154,643 views • 6 months ago

Everyone who is everyone – within a certain political and social fragment – has been in Russia this past week. Conservative American conspiracy theorist Candace Owens; Errol Musk, father of Elon; toxic "manosphere" influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate; and Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist. Robinson told the Guardian that he had travelled to Moscow "to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here." In the process, he was walking a well-trodden path of westerners heading to Russia to see exactly what they want to see. Once it was socialists like Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who found Stalin's regime "the very opposite of a dictatorship." In the 1990s, free-marketeers hailed the plunder of Russia as the apotheosis of liberal capitalism. These days, it is conservatives rhapsodising about Putin's Russia being the antidote to degenerate western wokeness. ✍️ Mark Galeotti Article |

Everyone who is everyone – within a certain political and social fragment – has been in Russia this past week. Conservative American conspiracy theorist Candace Owens; Errol Musk, father of Elon; toxic "manosphere" influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate; and Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist. Robinson told the Guardian that he had travelled to Moscow "to see how this country got itself so well on to the straight and narrow and see the beauty of a civilised society here." In the process, he was walking a well-trodden path of westerners heading to Russia to see exactly what they want to see. Once it was socialists like Sidney and Beatrice Webb, who found Stalin's regime "the very opposite of a dictatorship." In the 1990s, free-marketeers hailed the plunder of Russia as the apotheosis of liberal capitalism. These days, it is conservatives rhapsodising about Putin's Russia being the antidote to degenerate western wokeness. ✍️ Mark Galeotti Article |

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If you heard that a man was thinking about selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage or domestic servitude, who would you feel sorry for? The dad or the girl? The man treating his own child as property to be traded for cash, or his daughter, the innocent made into chattel for gross creeps to barter over so that they might secure themselves a child bride? All normal people would say the daughter. Of course we would. Not the BBC, though. Our public broadcaster has told precisely this horror story, only it paints the men selling their daughters as the victims, not the girls who are being sold. Meet the 'Afghan fathers' who are 'forced to make impossible choices', it blubs, blissfully unaware of how sick it sounds to the rest of us to play a tiny violin for men who sell girls into slavery. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

If you heard that a man was thinking about selling his seven-year-old daughter into marriage or domestic servitude, who would you feel sorry for? The dad or the girl? The man treating his own child as property to be traded for cash, or his daughter, the innocent made into chattel for gross creeps to barter over so that they might secure themselves a child bride? All normal people would say the daughter. Of course we would. Not the BBC, though. Our public broadcaster has told precisely this horror story, only it paints the men selling their daughters as the victims, not the girls who are being sold. Meet the 'Afghan fathers' who are 'forced to make impossible choices', it blubs, blissfully unaware of how sick it sounds to the rest of us to play a tiny violin for men who sell girls into slavery. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

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Imagine if, in 1941, as we were fighting for our lives against the German menace, a boatload of foreign narcissists rocked up at Dover to make fun of us. Worse, imagine these self-regarding seafarers cheered on our enemies. Imagine they waltzed up to the nearest soldier or copper and barked 'Victory to Germany!' while sporting the smuggest smirk you have ever seen. We'd be annoyed, right? More than annoyed: there would be national fury. Every paper in the land would denounce the preening aliens. Lines of boys in blue would have to hold back angry Brits yelling 'Let me at 'em!'. Well, now you know how the good people of Israel must feel after yet another armada of cranks sailed their way to remonstrate with their soldiers and tell them how demonic they are. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

Imagine if, in 1941, as we were fighting for our lives against the German menace, a boatload of foreign narcissists rocked up at Dover to make fun of us. Worse, imagine these self-regarding seafarers cheered on our enemies. Imagine they waltzed up to the nearest soldier or copper and barked 'Victory to Germany!' while sporting the smuggest smirk you have ever seen. We'd be annoyed, right? More than annoyed: there would be national fury. Every paper in the land would denounce the preening aliens. Lines of boys in blue would have to hold back angry Brits yelling 'Let me at 'em!'. Well, now you know how the good people of Israel must feel after yet another armada of cranks sailed their way to remonstrate with their soldiers and tell them how demonic they are. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

176,543 views • 1 month ago

'Parents don't realise that nurseries are day orphanages and warehouses for their children' Child psychotherapist Erica Komisar says parents are being bullied and misled into believing that daycare is good for their children, aruging that nurseries are effectively 'day orphanages' that cannot provides babies with the same safety and security provided by their parents. Erica Komisar, LCSW Natasha Feroze

'Parents don't realise that nurseries are day orphanages and warehouses for their children' Child psychotherapist Erica Komisar says parents are being bullied and misled into believing that daycare is good for their children, aruging that nurseries are effectively 'day orphanages' that cannot provides babies with the same safety and security provided by their parents. Erica Komisar, LCSW Natasha Feroze

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The Afro-Caribbean community is one of the best integrated of all migrant groups in Britian, and so this week’s scenes are particularly unfortunate. We must surely ask why the teens rioting this week are so disengaged from any sense of British common life. Is this what anyone would have imagined successful integration would have looked like when the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain in 1948? ✍️ James Graham Article |

The Afro-Caribbean community is one of the best integrated of all migrant groups in Britian, and so this week’s scenes are particularly unfortunate. We must surely ask why the teens rioting this week are so disengaged from any sense of British common life. Is this what anyone would have imagined successful integration would have looked like when the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain in 1948? ✍️ James Graham Article |

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It’s all kicking off in Makerfield, where Andy Burnham has romped to victory in the by-election. Burnham, Labour’s newest MP – and the PM-in-waiting – was graceful enough to shake the hand of his Reform opponent Robert Kenyon after the result was announced in the early hours. But elsewhere at the count in Wigan, there was no love lost between Reform and Labour types. Reform’s Sarah Pochin and Labour peer Baroness Thangam Debbonaire clashed during a testy interview live on Sky News. Debbonaire attemped to take Pochin to task over a video the Reform MP had posted about domestic abuse during the World Cup. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

It’s all kicking off in Makerfield, where Andy Burnham has romped to victory in the by-election. Burnham, Labour’s newest MP – and the PM-in-waiting – was graceful enough to shake the hand of his Reform opponent Robert Kenyon after the result was announced in the early hours. But elsewhere at the count in Wigan, there was no love lost between Reform and Labour types. Reform’s Sarah Pochin and Labour peer Baroness Thangam Debbonaire clashed during a testy interview live on Sky News. Debbonaire attemped to take Pochin to task over a video the Reform MP had posted about domestic abuse during the World Cup. ✍️ Steerpike Article |

32,342 views • 14 days ago

'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media

'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media

1,368,660 views • 2 years ago

When Michael Gove introduced me to Piers Morgan last week at the Spectator Christmas reception, Morgan seized my hand and beamed, ‘I know Jonathan. We’re old friends.’ This was generous of him, not least because it isn’t true. We’d met once before, briefly. But some months earlier I had written a critique of his YouTube show for The Spectator which, to judge by his response, he did not enjoy. ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti Article |

When Michael Gove introduced me to Piers Morgan last week at the Spectator Christmas reception, Morgan seized my hand and beamed, ‘I know Jonathan. We’re old friends.’ This was generous of him, not least because it isn’t true. We’d met once before, briefly. But some months earlier I had written a critique of his YouTube show for The Spectator which, to judge by his response, he did not enjoy. ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti Article |

370,745 views • 6 months ago

Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living under his government induces from most people on a daily basis. The absolute standout moment of today’s PMQs was one not caught by the cameras but a behind-the-scenes bit of piggy rage from the PM. Sir Keir Starmer’s anger when Lindsay Hoyle told him that it wasn’t ‘leader of the opposition’s questions’ was visible. But it was after the session, when a puce-coloured Starmer had an argument with Hoyle that the real joy was to be had, culminating in his flouncing out of the chamber. As he did so, he shot the Speaker an absolutely filthy look. Get her! ✍️ Madeline Grant Article |

Handbags at noon! It’s always nice to watch Sir Keir Starmer descend into the sort of incandescent fury that living under his government induces from most people on a daily basis. The absolute standout moment of today’s PMQs was one not caught by the cameras but a behind-the-scenes bit of piggy rage from the PM. Sir Keir Starmer’s anger when Lindsay Hoyle told him that it wasn’t ‘leader of the opposition’s questions’ was visible. But it was after the session, when a puce-coloured Starmer had an argument with Hoyle that the real joy was to be had, culminating in his flouncing out of the chamber. As he did so, he shot the Speaker an absolutely filthy look. Get her! ✍️ Madeline Grant Article |

138,981 views • 2 months ago

Hey, Jews – have you ever considered the possibility that you’re making a fuss over nothing? That a few petrol bombs through the windows of your synagogues is not really a big deal? That’s what I heard when Zack Polanski wondered out loud this week if Britain’s Jews are experiencing ‘actual unsafety’ or just a ‘perception of unsafety’. It is one of the most tone-deaf, pitiless sentences I have heard a politician utter. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

Hey, Jews – have you ever considered the possibility that you’re making a fuss over nothing? That a few petrol bombs through the windows of your synagogues is not really a big deal? That’s what I heard when Zack Polanski wondered out loud this week if Britain’s Jews are experiencing ‘actual unsafety’ or just a ‘perception of unsafety’. It is one of the most tone-deaf, pitiless sentences I have heard a politician utter. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article |

109,945 views • 2 months ago

Ethicist Nigel Biggar says BBC News presenters never speak of the capitals of Italy, Austria, or Russia as Roma, Wien, or Moskva. Why should the rules be any different for India? Natasha Feroze | nigel biggar

Ethicist Nigel Biggar says BBC News presenters never speak of the capitals of Italy, Austria, or Russia as Roma, Wien, or Moskva. Why should the rules be any different for India? Natasha Feroze | nigel biggar

226,882 views • 5 months ago

BBC News started a rolling live news feed, as if Sir Jim Ratcliffe's remarks were akin to a natural disaster or a war. Rachel Reeves said his comments were ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’. Sir Keir even demanded that Sir Jim recant and apologise for his sinful utterance. I’m sorry, what century is this? In what more moral universe is it acceptable for a PM to so publicly rebuke a British citizen simply for saying something he disapproves of? ✍️ Brendan O'Neill Article |

BBC News started a rolling live news feed, as if Sir Jim Ratcliffe's remarks were akin to a natural disaster or a war. Rachel Reeves said his comments were ‘disgusting’ and ‘unacceptable’. Sir Keir even demanded that Sir Jim recant and apologise for his sinful utterance. I’m sorry, what century is this? In what more moral universe is it acceptable for a PM to so publicly rebuke a British citizen simply for saying something he disapproves of? ✍️ Brendan O'Neill Article |

196,619 views • 4 months ago