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Lara Prendergast

Lara Prendergast is assistant editor of The Spectator

Is your Halloween costume woke?

Lara Prendergast 30 October 2019 10:59

Halloween used to be easy. It was a fancy-dress party: you could wear whatever you liked. The idea was to…

Will Carrie Symonds make Boris Johnson woke enough to win?

Lara Prendergast 2 June 2019 7:07

Philip May seems a decent cove. He’s been stoic and loyal but I can’t help hoping that the next prime…

Should we all write ‘feminist’ stocking fillers?

Lara Prendergast 23 December 2018 8:20

I arrived at Waterloo, half an hour before my train departed. Needing to buy a birthday card, I popped into…

Table Talk podcast, with the Spectator’s editor Fraser Nelson

Lara Prendergast 23 November 2018 10:46

On the latest episode of the Spectator’s Table Talk podcast, Olivia Potts and I are delighted to be joined by The…

Introducing Table Talk, a new podcast from Spectator Life

Lara Prendergast 2 November 2018 10:32

Prue Leith on the worst cake she ever made, why she hates washing up, and what she takes away from the Great British Bake Off.

The Tories aren’t too white. They’re too blue

Lara Prendergast 4 October 2017 17:53

Why do Tories all look the same? This year, having never been to a party conference before, I went to…

Theresa May’s mistake? Putting style over substance

Lara Prendergast 13 June 2017 12:35

There are many lessons to learn from the utter calamity of the general election, but here is just one: be…

Fashion is about change – and British Vogue’s first male editor is exactly that

Lara Prendergast 10 April 2017 13:51

After months of speculation, Alexandra Shulman’s successor at British Vogue has finally been announced. And in what may come as a shock…

The ‘clean eating’ gurus are now repenting – but the damage has been done

Lara Prendergast 19 January 2017 16:19

Ella Mills, née Woodward – aka ‘Deliciously Ella’ – was on Radio 4 this morning discussing ‘clean eating’. Many will…

Will feminists be kind to Melania Trump?

Lara Prendergast 14 November 2016 12:56

It was a race between the first dude — Bill — and the first nude — Melania. And in the…

Nigel Farage says farewell: ‘We brought down a prime minister’

Lara Prendergast 16 September 2016 12:43

Nigel Farage has just delivered his speech at Ukip conference, in which he declared that he had put ‘absolutely all of…

Terror in France: priest murdered in Normandy church ‘in name of’ Isis

Lara Prendergast 26 July 2016 10:46

Following a hostage situation at a church in northern France, two armed men and one hostage have been killed. The slain…

Graham Brady rules out re-opening the Tory leadership contest

Lara Prendergast 11 July 2016 12:47

Following Andrea Leadsom’s announcement that she is bowing out of the leadership race, Graham Brady, chairman of the 1922 committee,…

Chilcot slimmed down: what you need to know

Lara Prendergast 6 July 2016 11:38

The long-awaited Chilcot report has finally been published today. It comes during a very tumultuous time in British politics – and…

Brexit was a harsh political awakening for young people

Lara Prendergast 25 June 2016 14:54

Since Brexit became a reality early on Friday morning, my Facebook feed has been filled with mournful posts written by…

Could Brexit solve the housing crisis?

Lara Prendergast 23 May 2016 22:30

It is, at times, unclear that George Osborne is aware that the under-30s are voting in this EU referendum. When…

Labour’s Lisa Nandy suggests that Naz Shah should be suspended from the party

Lara Prendergast 27 April 2016 12:22

Labour’s Lisa Nandy has just been on the Daily Politics, where she suggested that Naz Shah should be suspended from…

Vote Leave given designation as official Brexit campaign

Lara Prendergast 13 April 2016 15:18

After months of waiting, the Electoral Commission has announced that Vote Leave has been given the official designation for the…

Does Paul Mason really want the next century to imitate Renaissance Florence?

Lara Prendergast 13 April 2016 11:22

‘Amid the cobbled passageways and tumbling tenements of the Italian city of Perugia, it’s possible to daydream you are in…

New Zealand’s flag vote makes me proud to be both Kiwi and British

Lara Prendergast 24 March 2016 18:46

I’m technically 3/4 Kiwi and 1/4 British, although having lived in the UK most of my life, it doesn’t often feel…

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