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1 week ago | 
spectator.com.au | Katy Balls |Michael Gove
A copy of a leading article from The Spectator is stuck to the wall of Wes Streeting’s office in the Department of Health. ‘Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the Health Service?’ we asked in October, warning against the perils of inaction. ‘We were so riled by it we stuck it there to hold ourselves to account,’ Streeting explains.
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1 week ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Katy Balls |Michael Gove
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments A copy of a leading article from The Spectator is stuck to the wall of Wes Streeting’s office in the Department of Health. ‘Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the Health Service?’ we asked in October, warning against the perils of inaction. ‘We were so riled by it we stuck it there to hold ourselves to account,’ Streeting explains. ‘We’re going further than your prescription, though. We thought it was insufficiently...
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3 weeks ago | 
spectator.com.au | Michael Gove
Clement Attlee, in the words of Winston Churchill, was a modest man with much to be modest about. Labour’s postwar premier has been invoked as a role model by Keir Starmer recently, in the context of Attlee’s support for Nato and robustness on defence. Starmer’s allies also argue that, like Attlee, he is an unshowy middle-England moderate who prefers quiet efficiency to ideological flamboyance.
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3 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Michael Gove
Clement Attlee, in the words of Winston Churchill, was a modest man with much to be modest about. Labour’s postwar premier has been invoked as a role model by Keir Starmer recently, in the context of Attlee’s support for Nato and robustness on defence. Starmer’s allies also argue that, like Attlee, he is an unshowy middle-England moderate who prefers quiet efficiency to ideological flamboyance.
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4 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Michael Gove
Airport security was much on my mind last Friday afternoon. I had been due to fly from Heathrow to Zurich that morning, but the substation fire meant a switch to an afternoon departure from London City Airport. City is a business-oriented operation in every respect and one of its many efficient features is a baggage-checking regime that does not require you to separate your 100ml bottles of shampoo and shaving foam into a plastic ziplock bag.
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4 weeks ago | 
spectator.com.au | Michael Gove
Airport security was much on my mind last Friday afternoon. I had been due to fly from Heathrow to Zurich that morning, but the substation fire meant a switch to an afternoon departure from London City Airport. City is a business-oriented operation in every respect and one of its many efficient features is a baggage-checking regime that does not require you to separate your 100ml bottles of shampoo and shaving foam into a plastic ziplock bag.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Michael Gove
Education secretary really is the best job in government, though sometimes it doesn’t feel that way. Lives can be transformed – hopefully for the better – as a direct consequence of the decisions you make. But you are also firmly in the firing line. There’s no other area of public policy in which everyone is an expert.
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1 month ago | 
thejc.com | Michael Gove
How do you tell your Auntie that she has a problem and she needs to get help? You love her, you’ve grown up with her, but really the periodic lapses are becoming a systemic issue which needs an outside professional to correct. She may be very apologetic every time she falters but these aren’t isolated incidents – there’s a pattern. It’s not an act of kindness to hope that things will get better unaided. You need to get her to face up to the fact that she just can’t cope on her own.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Jawad Iqbal |Mark Galeotti |Michael Gove
Keir Stamer has landed in Washington, where he joins the succession of European leaders lining up to convince the president of the United States that he’s got it wrong on Ukraine. But will the British prime minister be convincing? Starmer and Donald Trump will meet today at the White House, arriving just after 1 p.m. ET. The pair are set for talks, lunch and a press conference, taking up several hours of the afternoon.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Justin Marozzi |Jawad Iqbal |Mark Galeotti |Michael Gove
In 2023, I had coffee with the celebrated Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, on Yaroslaviv Val Street in the ancient heart of Kyiv. The modern city is built over the ruins of the rampart built by Yaroslav the Wise, the eleventh-century Grand Prince of Kyiv, to keep out invaders. Now, on the third anniversary of the most recent invasion of Ukraine, Kurkov, whose novels are known for their dark humor, is in a much more somber mood.
