‘Purdah’ purged from Whitehall. ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/official-purdah-purged-from-whitehall

In his never-ending mission to reboot his premiership, Keir Starmer has found a great new cause: Europe. ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/starmers-hypocrisy-on-henry-viii-powers

The supermarket has suffered quite a public relations blow recently with its actions involving its former employee, Walker Smith. ✍️ Alexander Larman Article | spectator.com/article/will-genteel-customers-desert-waitrose

There has been a surge in fuel theft at forecourts since the US-Iran war, according to a report in the Times this weekend. ✍️ Patrick West Article | spectator.com/article/why-...

Over the past few months, I’ve been training for the London Marathon, so most weekends I’ve been out running more than 20 miles at a stretch. ✍️ Chas Newkey-Burden Article | spectator.com/article/why-exercise-music-stops-you-from-throwing-in-the-towel

Samuel Beckett, with his quizzically peering gaze and handsome, hawk-like appearance, has long been the academic’s pin-up. ✍️ Ian Thomson Article | spectator.com/article/samuel-becketts-bleak-humour-lives-gleefully-on

You set off on a spring morning, windows down, full of hope. Sunglasses, flasks of tea and a picnic rug are packed. ✍️ Simon Heptinstall Article | spectator.com/article/the-british-road-trip-is-tourism-without-the-infrastructure

Even if the risks can never be totally eliminated, the Grand National is a life-enhancing event. ✍️ Neil Clark spectator.com/article/we-m...

The voters of Stoke Newington should perhaps know more about Shaheen before they make up their minds. ✍️ Andrew Gilligan spectator.com/article/why-...

These were never ‘peace talks’ – they were just another pressure point. ✍️ Jonathan Sacerdoti spectator.com/article/wash...

In these quieter corners of local government, some of the more curious examples of public spending can be found. ✍️ Matthew Bowles spectator.com/article/the-...

As is often the case, advertising's decline was slow, then sudden and mostly self-inflicted. ✍️ Paul Burke spectator.com/article/is-t...

To assume Iran would ever agree to Washington’s terms strains even Gottfried Leibniz’s optimism. ✍️ Irwin Stelzer spectator.com/article/of-c...

The blame game is already under way. ✍️ Jawad Iqbal spectator.com/article/what...

Reputation is measured by deeds rather than an accident of birth at this school. ✍️ Ivo Delingpole spectator.com/article/why-...

Back in 2023, the resistance was pushing the military to the brink. But now there's a different feeling. ✍️ Caleb Quinley spectator.com/article/on-t...

‘Harry might be wondering where it has all gone wrong over the past six years.’ ✍️ Alexander Larman spectator.com/article/why-...

‘This is a pause, not an end. Parliamentarians should press the government to abandon its policy altogether.’ ✍️ Richard Ekins spectator.com/article/this...

‘We clever and logical Terfs will not be taken out by the likes of Bash Back. We will live to fight another day.’ ✍️ Julie Burchill spectator.com/article/bash...

‘It’s often said in Spain that you need only scratch the surface to uncover Civil War-era grievances: the Guernica dispute shows how true this is.’ ✍️ Mark Nayler spectator.com/article/pica...

EXCL: Starmer referred to UN over ‘crime against humanity’ ✍️ Steerpike spectator.com/article/star...

‘Pakistan should beware the revolving carousel of mediators who have tried and failed to broker an end to the world’s persistent conflicts.’ ✍️ Damien Phillips spectator.com/article/how-...

‘The Irish are not, generally, a nation of protesters – pro-Palestine demos in recent years notwithstanding – so both the scale of the protest and the fury behind it caught the government off-guard.’ ✍️ Liz Walsh spectator.com/article/irel...

‘The Iranians have always proven a tough bunch when it comes to negotiations, with the default position of always making maximalist demands as a starting point for discussions.’ ✍️ Jawad Iqbal spectator.com/article/what...

The current phase of the disaster rolling through the Middle East hinges on whether a ceasefire in Lebanon should be a prerequisite for a ceasefire in the Gulf. ✍️ Jonathan Brown Article | spectator.com/article/lebanon-should-be-excluded-from-the-iran-peace-deal

Melania Trump’s bombshell statement yesterday on the Jeffrey Epstein affair needed subtitles. As she spoke it was all so odd. ✍️ Melissa Kite Article | spectator.com/article/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-melania-trump

Kemi Badenoch has said she will ban doctors from striking. Health Secretary Wes Streeting refused to rule it out. The police aren’t allowed to strike and nor is the military. Why should doctors be different? ✍️ Druin Burch Article | spectator.com/article/should-doctors-be-banned-from-striking

What are the odds that Vladimir Putin is going to be cowed when British Defence Secretary John Healey warns him ‘we see you. ✍️ Mark Galeotti Article | spectator.com/article/the-problem-with-john-healeys-tough-talk-on-russia

Four astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft achieved the distinction of travelling further from the Earth than any humans before them – 252,000 miles away. Barometer | spectator.com/article/how-many-humans-have-landed-on-the-moon

More youth clubs won’t fix London’s crime woes. ✍️ Alexander Baker Article | spectator.com/article/more-youth-clubs-wont-fix-london-crime

Reform’s approach to these local elections seemed to be a variation on a wedding classic: ‘something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.’ ✍️ Steerpike Article | spectator.com/article/ex-tory-mps-line-up-for-reform

It’s hard to believe that Starmer is getting tough on Russia. ✍️ Owen Matthews Article | spectator.com/article/its-hard-to-believe-that-starmer-is-getting-tough-on-russia

Four migrants drowned in the Channel yesterday when they were swept away by strong currents. ✍️ Gavin Mortimer Article | spectator.com/article/frances-migration-hypocrisy

Imagine there was a virulently Francophobic militia on the doorstep of the French Republic. Imagine it had fired nearly a hundred thousand missiles into France these past three years. ✍️ Brendan O’Neill Article | spectator.com/article/the-shameful-lies-about-israels-attack-on-hezbollah

Our invertebrate government has struck again. ✍️ Ross Clark Article | spectator.com/article/the-ons-should-not-work-from-home

Ever fancied an extra family member or new best friend supplied on demand and available for as long as required? ✍️ Philip Patrick Article | spectator.com/article/can-you-rent-a-family-in-japan

Letters: The uncomfortable truth about Gen Z churchgoers ✍️ The Spectator Article | spectator.com/article/letters-the-uncomfortable-truth-about-gen-z-churchgoers

What do you do with a captured soldier? ✍️ Peter Jones Article | spectator.com/article/what-do-you-do-with-a-captured-soldier

Ladies and gentlemen, drum roll please, no pushing at the back, let’s hear it for… The Bunch! If you don’t know who I’m talking about, you’re in for a treat. ✍️ Jonathan Ray Article | spectator.com/article/the-pick-of-the-bunch-wines-from-six-of-the-uks-top-merchants

Regular readers of this column will be familiar with my promoting an idea called a ‘Paceometer’. Once you have seen a Paceometer, you will drive in a completely different way. ✍️ Rory Sutherland Article | spectator.com/article/the-real-reason-we-should-be-burning-our-own-gas

Nasa can fly us a quarter of a million miles to circumnavigate the moon but nobody has yet, to my knowledge, fixed the perennial problem of making an even half-decent cup of coffee at home. ✍️ Rachel Johnson Article | spectator.com/article/the-perils-of-being-a-coffee-snob

Dear Mary: how can I tell a friend she has Mounjaro face? ✍️ Mary Killen Article | spectator.com/article/dear-mary-how-can-i-tell-a-friend-she-has-mounjaro-face

Oh dear, what if the oil crisis is now at such fever pitch that desperate housewives in remote places are offering a little something on the side to get more oil? ✍️ Melissa Kite Article | spectator.com/article/how-far-would-i-go-for-oil

America is having its Golden Age, Iran is about to get blasted into the Stone Age… and Elbridge Colby wants to go back to the Late Middle Ages? ✍️ Margaret Mitchell Article | spectator.com/article/the-pentagons-holy-war-with-rome

A&E is buckling under the mental health crisis. ✍️ Isabel Hardman Article | spectator.com/article/ae-is-buckling-under-the-mental-health-crisis

Four astronauts aboard the Artemis II spacecraft achieved the distinction of travelling further from the Earth than any humans before them. However, they didn't actually land on the Moon. How many humans have? ✍️ The Spectator Article | spectator.com/article/how-many-humans-have-landed-on-the-moon

As for The Turn of the Screw – directed by Natalie Abrahami at the Royal Opera’s Linbury Theatre – well, this is going to sound hyperbolic but even in an era of superb Britten productions, it was outstanding. ✍️ Richard Bratby Article | spectator.com/article/an-outstanding-turn-of-the-screw

Don’t blame Kanye for his abject idiocy, blame the simpering white liberal critics who decided that this halfwit was a genius. ✍️ Rod Liddle Article | spectator.com/article/dont...

The noble work of chairlift diplomacy. ✍️ Toby Young Article | spectator.com/article/the-noble-work-of-chairlift-diplomacy

In putting an attack on Israel front and centre of his party’s local election launch, you would think Zack Polanski was campaigning abroad. ✍️ Stephen Daisley Article | spectator.com/article/why-are-the-greens-using-the-local-elections-to-attack-israel