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Forever war: Is an exhausted peace the answer, asks Owen Matthews 🔸 Douglas Murray: Are we allowed to feel angry yet? 🔸 Charles Moore: I believe Nicola Sturgeon 🔸 Toby Young: Was I too right-wing for MI6? 🔸 Charlie Methven: England’s best chance spectator.co.uk
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The Spectator's Noa Hoffman sums up the resignation of John Healey following a clash with the government on defence funding. With a shadow leadership contest already underway, what are Keir Starmer's options? @hoffman_noa
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As the Labour government continues to tear itself apart, Thursday 18 June has assumed a much greater significance than any normal by-election. If Andy Burnham, as expected, wins then many in his party will begin preparing for an imminent leadership contest. Talk of a snap
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The leaders of Britain's Jews have raised ‘serious questions concerning police impartiality’ and asked that the National Association of Muslim Police (NAMP) be suspended from any policy role in policing. It comes after The Spectator revealed that NAMP had called Zionism ‘one of
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The Green party is considering a new policy to ban circumcision, The Spectator can reveal. The party's Health Policy Working Group (HPWG) has launched a consultation seeking views on whether parents should only be allowed to consent 'to an irreversible surgical procedure on a
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On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary. In a blistering letter to the Prime Minister, he said: 'You have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this
Defence Sec resigns: 'Keir can't keep Britain safe'
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One of the things wrong with Britain is our inability to say no to campaign groups once they win a hearing on the One Show. One rare exception to that has been Starmer's cabinet standing up to Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) – the least deserving compensation
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"We've got to stop hawking this discredited notion that we are a multicultural society" Journalist Ian Acheson says Keir Starmer is "far behind the cuve" when it comes to the impact illegal migration has had on some communities. @NotThatBigIan
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After a week of government paralysis, it appears something has finally broken the deadlock: John Healey has resigned as Defence Secretary. In a withering letter to Keir Starmer, Healey accused the Prime Minister of being 'unable' and the Treasury 'unwilling to commit the
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People will say almost anything to win power. Sir Keir Starmer's rise is a case in point. In 2020, he won the Labour leadership by presenting himself as a candidate who would preserve much of the Corbyn-era policy agenda. Once in charge, many of those promises were diluted,
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I've lost track of the number of times I've heard two things in recent months. Serving and retired military commanders, ministers and former ministers, strategists, advisers and MPs parrot the line that the defence of the country is the first duty of any government. They also
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A late spring outbreak of righteous indignation is affecting the United Kingdom. It's yet another variant of Palantir Derangement Syndrome. Virologists tracked this smug neurosis as it jumped across the Atlantic from the American left to British Labour. Symptoms include
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