Daily political analysis from The Spectator's top team of writers, including Michael Gove, Tim Shipman, Isabel Hardman, James Heale and many others.
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A ‘classically awful’ PMQs to round out the year
10 mins; December 17, 2025
Why Britain needs to wake up to extremism
16 mins; December 16, 2025
The Liaison Committee exposed Starmer’s weaknesses
12 mins; December 15, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/12/2025
13 mins; December 14, 2025
Will Scotland switch course in 2026? with Gordon McKee
17 mins; December 12, 2025
‘Growth is not Labour’s priority, it’s hilarious’
13 mins; December 12, 2025
Does Farage really want to be Prime Minister?
23 mins; December 11, 2025
Kemi wins PMQs
10 mins; December 10, 2025
Is a Ukraine peace deal inching closer?
13 mins; December 09, 2025
Why Kemi is safer than Keir
12 mins; December 08, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 07/12/2025
16 mins; December 07, 2025
‘Superadvisers’ and the Starmer paradox: who really runs No. 10?
23 mins; December 05, 2025
Brexit's back – and so is Truss
15 mins; December 05, 2025
The murky world of political donations
14 mins; December 04, 2025
PMQs: at least Kemi is enjoying herself
14 mins; December 03, 2025
Lammy on trial over plans to scrap juries
12 mins; December 02, 2025
Did Rachel Reeves lie?
15 mins; December 01, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 30/11/2025
17 mins; November 30, 2025
Disraeli to Reeves: how each Chancellor drank their way through the Budget
33 mins; November 28, 2025
The black hole myth & the brain drain conundrum
15 mins; November 28, 2025
The OBR on the Budget leak & why they're always wrong
30 mins; November 27, 2025
Rachel Reeves’s farcical Budget
13 mins; November 26, 2025
Why Reeves's smorgasbord Budget won't fix Britain
13 mins; November 25, 2025
Britain's expensive energy problem – with Claire Coutinho
15 mins; November 24, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 23/11/2025
16 mins; November 23, 2025
Why Britain needs more Yimbys
21 mins; November 21, 2025
Covid report: ‘a £200 million I told you so’
14 mins; November 21, 2025
Is Labour turning blue?
11 mins; November 20, 2025
Labour's 'dog whistle politics'
10 mins; November 19, 2025
Mahmood's right turn, as migration figures revised – again
18 mins; November 18, 2025
Shabana Mahmood vs the asylum system
14 mins; November 17, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025
12 mins; November 16, 2025
Why are so many prisoners accidentally released? With H.M. Chief Inspector of Prisons
15 mins; November 14, 2025
What is going on in the Treasury!?
14 mins; November 14, 2025
Politics vs economics: which is Labour worst at?
10 mins; November 13, 2025
Wes for PM?
19 mins; November 12, 2025
Labour's vibes are all wrong
13 mins; November 11, 2025
What now for the BBC?
12 mins; November 10, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 09/11/2025
15 mins; November 09, 2025
What Trump II can teach Britain
18 mins; November 07, 2025
Pain is inevitable for Rachel Reeves
12 mins; November 07, 2025
Why energy is the new political battleground
11 mins; November 06, 2025
The most bizarre PMQs ever
14 mins; November 05, 2025
Reeves prepares the public for tax hikes
10 mins; November 04, 2025
Farage: trust me with the economy
15 mins; November 03, 2025
Introducing... Reality Check
13 mins; November 01, 2025
The inside story of Kemi's first year
20 mins; October 31, 2025
Andrew (Mountbatten Windsor) saves the Chancellor
15 mins; October 31, 2025
What happened at the Parliamentarian of the Year Awards?
17 mins; October 30, 2025
Who will 'take back control' of the economy?
14 mins; October 29, 2025
Migration, the customs union & a £40bn black hole?
13 mins; October 28, 2025
Is the Home Office fit for purpose?
14 mins; October 27, 2025
Has Starmer misled parliament? Plus Lucy Powell wins
13 mins; October 25, 2025
Caerphilly by-election: 'a tale of two faces'
16 mins; October 24, 2025
What’s inside Farage’s brain?
16 mins; October 23, 2025
Grooming gangs: Kemi accuses Labour of a 'cover up'
14 mins; October 22, 2025
Britain's doom loop continues
10 mins; October 21, 2025
Can Reform run a council?
10 mins; October 20, 2025
Thatcher & Reagan's special relationship
40 mins; October 17, 2025
Antisemitism, Chinese spies & GB's economic fragility
13 mins; October 17, 2025
The truth about Chinese espionage
13 mins; October 16, 2025
Are the Tories to blame for the China spy scandal?
13 mins; October 15, 2025
China spy scandal: 'a masterclass of ineptitude'?
12 mins; October 14, 2025
Spy scandal: what is Labour's policy on China?
15 mins; October 13, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 12/10/2025
13 mins; October 12, 2025
Who is the greatest ever conservative?
39 mins; October 10, 2025
How can the Tories turn it around? Live
40 mins; October 10, 2025
Whisper it quietly, peace in the Middle East?
15 mins; October 09, 2025
Finally we know what Badenoch stands for
10 mins; October 08, 2025
Who's listening to the Tories? Live from conference
38 mins; October 07, 2025
Economy: can we trust the Tories again?
10 mins; October 06, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 05/10/2025
18 mins; October 05, 2025
Debate: what next for the British right?
29 mins; October 03, 2025
Manchester attack: Michael Gove on the rise of antisemitism
24 mins; October 03, 2025
Kemi Badenoch's plan to save the Tories
18 mins; October 02, 2025
Labour's deputy divisions: insider vs outsider?
13 mins; October 01, 2025
Starmer delivers 'the speech of his life'
19 mins; September 30, 2025
Shabana Mahmood in conversation with Michael Gove – Labour Conference 2025
49 mins; September 29, 2025
Labour conference: 'a holiday from reality'?
11 mins; September 29, 2025
Labour’s ‘levelling up’ agenda – Michael Gove interviews Steve Reed
28 mins; September 26, 2025
ID cards are back: will they work?
17 mins; September 26, 2025
Starmer's make-or-break conference
13 mins; September 25, 2025
What is 'Manchesterism'?
17 mins; September 24, 2025
Ed Davey pitches himself as the anti-Farage
10 mins; September 23, 2025
Farage goes after Boris
16 mins; September 22, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 21/09/2025
11 mins; September 21, 2025
Should Britain recognise Palestine?
17 mins; September 19, 2025
Inside the 'Your Party' meltdown
13 mins; September 19, 2025
Trump’s state visit was a ‘news bonanza’
15 mins; September 18, 2025
Andy Burnham’s ‘fantasy politics’
23 mins; September 17, 2025
Will Trump's state visit save Starmer?
12 mins; September 16, 2025
Why Danny Kruger’s defection to Reform matters
13 mins; September 15, 2025
Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 14/09/2025
15 mins; September 14, 2025
What does Trump want from his state visit?
16 mins; September 12, 2025
Will Mandelson bring down McSweeney?
19 mins; September 12, 2025
Prince of Darkness sacked (again)
21 mins; September 11, 2025
Badenoch skewers Starmer over Mandelson’s Epstein link
