8+ hour, 50+ min ago  (810+ words) The Spectator The highs and lows of life as an artist "Painting is a stupid job. Do something useful and train to be a nurse," commented a man beneath a column I wrote last month. Although well used to the…...

10+ hour, 16+ min ago  (527+ words) Loads of it has been done in Andy's garden,' says a close ally. Half of us in the garden, the other half online. We're having to run a by-election campaign, a leadership campaign and preparations for government simultaneously. At the…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago  (287+ words) While most Fake Fuzz operatives are less aggressive than this, their condescending self-importance is all the more irritating for its stupidity. Retail parks often employ them, as do individual businesses. A shop in my town has an entry gate, about…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (478+ words) 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…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (439+ words) When it comes to foreign policy, Donald Trump is neither hawk nor dove. He's a dealmaker who plays differing sides off each other. In so doing, he ends up disappointing warmongers and peaceniks in equal measure. Rather than blaming Trump…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (620+ words) The Labour MP Lauren Edwards has confirmed she will reintroduce the assisted dying Bill in the Commons as a Private Member's Bill (PMB). As a supporter of assisted dying, you might expect that I would be entirely in favour of…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (420+ words) I don't think there's anything that's going to get me into heaven," Donald Trump told a group of journalists aboard Air Force One in October. I think I'm not, maybe, heaven-bound." My phone started blowing up," says Paula White-Cain, Trump's…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (173+ words) Ben Stokes, until very recently captain of the England cricket team, isn't playing in the second Test match of the series against New Zealand which starts at The Oval on Wednesday. His misdeed? Breaching the team's midnight curfew at the…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (855+ words) The Spectator Is the ban on Anthropic's Mythos model just a ruse? The US government has finally intervened in the AI regulation question, albeit in the kind of haphazard, incoherent, and possibly corrupt manner in which the Trump administration tends…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago  (697+ words) The Spectator Would you let an app read a book for you? Some time ago, I had a furious conversation with a tech bro, which played out something along these lines: "How cool would it be, said the tech bro,…...