This is one of the best interviews with a journalist I've ever heard. Jimmy McLoughlin 🐑🇺🇦 talks to Fraser Nelson, covering so much ground and with really personal reflections from Fraser. Fascinating and illuminating. youtu.be/muyzfw8I2pU?si…

Sunak’s threshold freeze stealth tax will, overall, remove far more from payslips that NI changes will add.

Voters know this, hence no political cut-through. Tories still imposing tax rises that the low-paid don’t deserve and can’t afford.

IFS sums it up:

🗣 ‘I’m not against migration. But this scale and pace is totally unreasonable and unsustainable.’

📺 The View from 22 | Suella Braverman (Suella Braverman MP) on the OBR’s flawed idea that more migration equals more growth

👉 youtube.com/watch?v=g__pM_…

Another side effect of lockdown was to double the truancy (or ‘persistent absence’) rates. data.spectator.co.uk/education

If I was Ash Regan, I’d just have a laugh with my demands.

1. Humza must buy an Ibrox season ticket and be photographed every week in the home kit

2. Angus Robertson has to dress as a duck and must quack in response to all ministerial questions

3. Bring back Take the High Road

Discussing Labour’s plan to renationalise the railways on Thursday's #PoliticsLive

Kieran Mullan MP, Conservative
Sam Tarry MP, Labour
Wendy Chamberlain MP, Lib Dem
Kate Andrews, Spectator

BBC Two 12:15pm bbc.in/44jxkYv

A cabinet clash, Rwanda and what the bill’s royal assent means for the election

The Spectator column 👇

spectator.co.uk/article/kemi-a…

📊 Lockdown’s impact on children is only beginning: ‘Children who started school in the early days of the pandemic will have worse exam results well into the next decade.’

📈 Get the data: data.spectator.co.uk

✍️ Full article here: spectator.co.uk/article/lockdo…

Andrew Neil’s evidence to the Lords committee has now been viewed a million times.

Seems to resonate particularly in Canada, where about half of non-state journalism is now government-supported

Great line by Allister Heath in his Telegraph column; “ We live in the freest, wealthiest, healthiest, fairest and technologically advanced politics in history and yet millions of young people are being taught to hate the West, to despise the liberties that make their lifestyles…

How Frank Field accidentally banned modern slavery, with a little help from Fraser Nelson and Theresa May (from a big sitdown we did for CapX, which was one of the best hours of my life) capx.co/free-exchange-…

How should government help journalists, Andrew Neil is asked by a Lords committee...

'Stay the hell out of it... You’re not on our side, we’re not on your side. We’re different. Relations between journalists - all media - and government should always be bad. And never, on any…

If flights do take off to #Rwanda , will the PM be out of the woods politically?

Here's Political Editor at the Spectator Katy Balls and journalist Benjamin Butterworth

#KayBurley FC

Two probs:-
1) A free press is a foundation of democracy (free football clubs less so). Free means freedom from government: UK or Emirati. There is no other definition.

2) Parliament (not government) secured that freedom with a House of Lords backbench amendment. Plt≠gvt.

'Stay the hell out of it.' Andrew Neil's advice on what the government should do with the media