The SpectatorNowBarristers should be allowed to join the GarrickThe Spectator - Andrew TettenbornThe Garrick Club affair has taken a new and slightly worrying twist, this time courtesy of – of all bodies – the Bar Council. Hot on the heels of calls for judges to resign en masse from the club because it remains single-sex, the Council now apparently wants to go even further. It is hinting that …
The Spectator1 hour agoWhen the gender debate doesn’t belong in the classroomThe Spectator - Debbie HaytonKevin Lister has lost his case at an employment tribunal in Bristol. I am not surprised. The former maths teacher was dismissed by New College Swindon for gross misconduct in September 2022 after he failed to refer to one of his students by their preferred name or pronoun. There was a clash of …
The Spectator3 hours agoWhen will Prince Harry stop punishing British taxpayers?The Spectator - Michael ColeWherever you go in the world, there are always two things that are never cheap: lobsters and lawyers. The British taxpayer has learned this painful reality as it picks up a bill of more than half a million pounds for defending the government’s case against Prince Harry. The Duke of Sussex has …
The Spectator6 hours agoThames Water proves privatisation has failedThe Spectator - Ross ClarkWhy do the Conservatives find it so difficult to admit that the privatisation of public utilities has in many cases been a disaster? It was supposed to bring heaps of finance into public services, protect taxpayers from financial risk and bring prices down through competition. Yet we have ended up …
The Spectator8 hours agoThe UK’s economic problems are far bigger than a ‘recession’The Spectator - Kate AndrewsIt was extremely optimistic to think the UK could revise its way out of recession. After the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported GDP figures for Q4 last year showing a 0.3 per cent economic contraction between October and December, a recession seemed set in stone. Today the ONS reports no …
The Spectator8 hours agoGermany’s Holocaust dilemmaThe Spectator - Katja Hoyer‘In 2024, Jewish money is once again being confiscated by a German bank’. This is a headline that makes for uncomfortable reading in Berlin. It is part of a story currently making the rounds on social media and being described as a ‘worrying echo of history.’ But there is more to this story than …