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New home secretary objects to increasing visas for Indians and critiques predecessor’s attempt to return overstayers

Less than a month in, the PM’s political capital is draining away. And party conference is unlikely to offer any relief, says Spectator deputy political editor Katy Balls

A workaholic her entire life, Mantel produced some of this century’s greatest historical novels

Sporty Spice is telling it like it is in her new memoir, which details the true gruelling reality of being in the world’s biggest girlband. She looks back at it all, and what she’s learned, with Jessie Thompson

During the second world war there were notable exceptions to the at times slavish patriotic devotion the press showed to the government line. Weekly political titles such as New Statesman and Nation, the Spectator and the Economist challenged government policy more consistently than daily newspapers.

The prime minister has kept her friends close. But will that be enough, when winter bites, asks Katy Balls, the Spectator’s deputy political editor

Boris Johnson has now been succeeded by a new prime minister following his resignation back in July 2022 due to his response to the Chris Pincher and Partygate scandals

We've taken a look at some of the most scandalous and questionable things Boris Johnson has said as he is finally ousted as Prime Minister

Durham has become the focus of anger from both sides of the political spectrum. Students and academics try to explain why its campus skirmishes keep spilling out into the tabloids

Editorial: The former chancellor’s false suggestion that Britain’s Covid lockdown went on too long will feed the paranoid politics of the Conservative right

Latest updates: Tory leadership frontrunner reacts to Sunak comments, saying school closures went too far; pair meet Tory members in Norwich