The selection committee of the Stafford Conservative Association have tonight passed a motion to prevent incumbent MP Theo Clarke from being their candidate next time around. Labours menopause action plan is an insult to women, How the Tories should address Britains future. Message discipline was rigid; disputes played out privately, away from the cameras. The great villain of Covid is China. Although he evades the Countess's forces, Titus, who blamed Steerpike for his sister's death, eventually finds and kills him. Unfortunately for him he is followed to their room by Flay, Doctor Prunesquallor, and Titus and is discovered with the corpses. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike Hes been dropping hints that his occupancy would last only until May 2016, when Boriss second mayoral term ends. Inflation. Allies suggest Hancock is planning a series of 'serious documentaries' on assisted dying and dyslexia when he stands down as an MP at the next election. He, Congratulations must go to Alan Cumming who has today worked out what the acronym OBE stands for a mere, A big house, Californian sunshine, oodles of dosh and, of course, priceless privacy life in Montecito must be pretty, A most undiplomatic row has engulfed one of Westminsters most prestigious groups. Farewell then. Members of the parliamentary, So. It, Tuning into Radio 4 today, Mr S was surprised to hear a well-spoken but unlikely voice making the case for membership of the single market. Its been quite the six months for the onetime favourite to succeed Boris Johnson. Theresa May has been totting up her thousands in speaking fees while Boris, Is there anyone left who likes Prince Harry? I recall as a head of department this was brought up at a weekly meeting. The plan succeeds, however, and the death of Barquentine leads to him being appointed Master of Ritual. Our writers hold no party line; their only allegiance is to clarity of thought, elegance of expression and independence of opinion. So it only seems, Theres been a sense of deja vu in Westminster in recent days, with a Tory leader under pressure on Europe, It seems the wokest paper in all the west has blundered once again. Steerpike was first to break the news last year that the Labour leader was on the hunt for a top civil servant to become his head honcho. High-shouldered to a degree little short of malformation, slender and adroit of limb and frame, his eyes close-set and the colour of dried blood, he is climbing the spiral staircase of the soul of Gormenghast, bound for some pinnacle of the itching fancy some wild, invulnerable eyrie best known to himself; where he can watch the world spread out below him, and shake exultantly his clotted wings.[1]. The result would be better learning, discipline, and friendship. Sting played Steerpike in 1984 radio adaption of the first two Gormenghast novels on BBC Radio 4. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. Boris, Brexit and the Northern Ireland Protocol all are dominating the news agenda yet again. Williamson and Hancocks schools battle revealed, Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie deux, The importance of exposing Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages. 10. Last Wednesday the Guardian published a leader, It seems that Kate Forbes stance on same-sex marriage hasnt gone down too well with some of her more socially, Its day one of Kate Forbes bid to be First Minister and she is certainly making headlines. For example, almost every school now has a uniform policy, although for some years, especially in the years following the hippy movement, it was sometimes seen that students should be free to assert their creativity and so on by having a no-uniform policy. Who is to blame for this and what is to be done? For amusement I did a rough calculation of how many of the students waiting at bus stops, or walking to them, had their heads down, immersed in a mobile phone screen. The ageing rocker, who congratulated Boris, Oh dear. Steerpike uses his charm and fast tongue to insinuate himself with the castle's physician Dr Prunesquallor, and acts for a time as his apprentice. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. But even that cant beat our former prime minister, Tony Blair, who wanted to bring peace to the Middle East. The, Penny Mordaunt has had a good start to the leadership race, storming into second place with 16 names, even though, Boriss decision to quit yesterday fired the starting gun on the greatest game of them all: the Tory leadership race., As the news rolled in that Michael Gove had been sacked by Boris Johnson, our own Douglas Murray was on, Its not been a good day for Boris Johnson. Steerpike could also be considered an archetypal Machiavellian schemer: a highly intelligent, ruthless character willing to justify any and all means to reach his end. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Oakeshott: So youre think of making it more difficult? 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Last night it hosted the unveiling of Boris Johnson's new portrait, Spectator: Steerpike on how South Park incinerated Harry and Meghan Victory At Sea - #9/26 - Sea and Sand talkTV: Mike Graham: Plank of the Week with Kevin O'Sullivan, Peter Bleksley, Candice Holdsworth, Amanda Devlin - 10/02/2023 GBNews: Nurse 'bullied and suspended from NHS course' after saying 'being white doesn't make you racist' The phone pestering, annoying, and interfering with others lives continues 24/7, although strangely parents often expect school to fix it. Europe Fact check: New York Times's London foodie 'knowledge' You'd think they would have learned after last time By Steerpike Fact check: New York Times' 'Austerity Britain' report Eventually saner thinking prevailed in the light of students competing ferociously on the grounds of fashion, and also as uniforms are a useful deterrent to would-be offenders coming onto school property. 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Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Clearly Ms Riseborough is more than just an excellent actress. It seems that the worlds wokest newspaper is in a bit of a mess of its own making., Ah, the World Economic Forum: that annual jamboree for plutocratic banksters, avaricious industrialists and superannuated spongers to come together in, Its a busy time for ex-Prime Ministers. Then just 1 a week for full website and app access. Nadhim Zahawi. Gossip columnist 'Steerpike' alleged that lockdown . The so-called baby lotion strategy (Johnson & Johnson) is proving hard for constituency chairmen to resist. The effects of even innocent behaviour at such times are negative. Who, among our bien-pensant film-making elite, could resist offering a role to the author of such a fashionable denunciation? His resultant vendetta against Steerpike becomes a key factor in Steerpike's eventual downfall. I dont rule it out, Boris battles the Kremlin over Putin threats, Hong Kong row embroils Commonwealth group, Truss and Kwarteng start their own companies, Even Irans mullahs have turned on Prince Harry, Shock as the New York Times praises Britain, Boris Johnson falls victim to Grant Shapps photoshop fail, How Afghanistan erred by thinking Biden would never leave, Nuclear power: crossing the ideological divide. The great villain of Covid is China. His behaviour at this point shows evident signs of madness, in stark contrast to the cool and rational mastermind he once was. Chris Skidmore, MP for Kingswood, has tabled an early day motion calling for Richard III to be granted a state funeral. President Ahmadinejad put in a serious claim when he announced that he plans to blast off into orbit after leaving office and to become a martyr for science. Leave it to the individual schools! was the cry, largely due to wanting to avoid the problem of having multiple arguments with parents, students, and even teachers, who in some misguided instances argue that having a phone and using it responsibly is something that must be taught. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk. Recriminations! Overnight the Telegraph has released a smorgasbord of stories based on a cache of Matt Hancocks WhatsApps during the Covid pandemic. Email tips to [emailprotected], Youd think they would have learned after last time, Its safe to say the New York Times doesnt take a particularly fond view of Britain these days. Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an anti-hero; the first book for example is largely focused on him, only covering the first year of the eponymous hero Titus's life. Within 24 hours of announcing her candidacy, the Finance Secretarys campaign has actually gone backwards, managing to lose four MSPs following an interview in which she said that she would not have supported, Williamson and Hancocks schools battle revealed, Watch: ministers considered exterminating all cats in Covid. The Spectator magazine, which is now ranked lower than Breitbart London for UK traffic, according to Alexa.com, has lashed out at the list compiled by broadcaster and independent analyst Iain Dale, and published by Breitbart London. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk or message @MrSteerpike, Vladimir Putin has sold his Ukrainian war to the Russian people by trying to find the sweet spot between existential threat and reassuring distance: the Russian president portrays the conflict as a struggle to preserve the nation from a hostile West and its Ukrainian proxy, but one fought safely outside its borders. What they should have done was to lay down the law. Only 1 a week after your trial. Actions like calling a widowed grandmother a psychopath, perhaps. It seems that not all Tory MPs got the memo about last nights no-confidence vote. There was a moment we were very unclear about whether domestic pets could transmit the disease. If sibling Jo retains his Orpington seat in 2015, the Johnsons may become a larger faction in parliament than the Lib Dems. 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The social web that links The Spectator to the heart of the Tory cabinet Connections between a magazine and the cabinet have rarely been so interlinked, with a former editor as the helm, a Spectator spouse as a senior political strategist and the chancellor as the political editor's best man - how is The Speccie wielding its influence? Around 50 per cent was the answer. Members of the parliamentary, So. He, Congratulations must go to Alan Cumming who has today worked out what the acronym OBE stands for a mere, A big house, Californian sunshine, oodles of dosh and, of course, priceless privacy life in Montecito must be pretty, A most undiplomatic row has engulfed one of Westminsters most prestigious groups. And a flow-on effect is there is much lateness to lessons another in the list of discipline offences to burden teachers lives. Why was EU chief due to meet King Charles? Could Meghan and Harrys eviction overshadow the coronation? Jacqui Smith, the former Home Secretary, popped up on Politics Live to talk about the important of civility in public life. Tobias Ellwood, a, Its not just the Tory party thats in a bit of a mess. Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from Westminster and beyond. Steerpike enrages the manservant, who throws one of the Countess's precious white cats at the youth; Flay is subsequently banished. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. Is Keir trolling Boris with his next hire? From there Steerpike uses the doctor's connections to gain access to the upper hierarchy of Gormenghast. This ignores decades of the ability of a school office to take a message, and in an emergency multiple messages from scores of students hardly help a situation. 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