Back in March 2020 Toby was among a depressingly select group of journalists who opposed the lockdowns. The other side included his now Spectator Editor Michael Gove, who has let him write about it in this week's magazine.
Jordan Peterson has branded Net Zero a "brutal" form of "nature worship" as he tells Michael Gove that he can't believe the Tories fell for it and the party "needs a desperate slap" for what it did to the U.K.
"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.
Foreign state control of British news organisations is to be outlawed, in a move by Rishi Sunak to block the attempted UAE-takeover of the Telegraph.
When the Spectator hosted a debate on Britain's cancer crisis at the last Tory conference, the sponsor gave Editor Fraser Nelson a shocking ultimatum: drop Professor Karol Sikora or lose £25,000 in sponsorship.
As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
Why is the Prime Minister thinking about publishing a bill banning conversion therapy when it’s already illegal in this country? This is precisely the sort of woke virtue-signalling that antagonises people who voted Conservative in 2019.
After the courts ruled that the content of controversial pro-trans and 'sex positive' sex education lessons may be kept secret from parents, MPs prepare to legislate to force disclosure.
Was the BBC guilty of breaching its own impartiality rules during the first lockdown, given how one-sided its coverage was? More and more evidence suggests the answer is 'yes'.
Those who dodged the electric car bullet are feeling pretty smug right now, as the value of second-hand EVs plummets, free chargers vanish and the price of electricity soars.
