Is the Spectator Right to Prize Style Over Being Right?
12 October 2024
Climate Change Committee Appoints Humanities Graduate as CEO
12 October 2024
by Ben Pile
An Albanian wanted for murder in his home country has won the right to remain in the U.K. under the European Convention on Human Rights, renewing calls for the U.K. to quit the treaty.
New EU border rules which would force British tourists to submit fingerprints and facial biometrics have been postponed indefinitely amidst concerns about the "resilience of the system".
Ireland's population surged due to immigration by more than 180,000, a 3.5% increase, in 2023, and the many downsides are becoming impossible even for liberal Dublin elites to ignore, says Michael Murphy.
"Who’s in, who's out?" asks Shakespeare. At the Spectator, Michael Gove is in and Fraser Nelson is out. Both say the magazine should prize style over viewpoint. But is this really right, asks Prof James Alexander.
The Climate Change Committee has appointed Emma Pinchbeck as its new CEO – a 37 year-old humanities graduate with no experience in the energy industry except lobbying. Can the calibre go any lower, asks Ben Pile.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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