Don’t trust me, I’m a doctor
I was recently accused of lying. This was a little hard to swallow as it was over a directly referenced…
The Republican march on Rome
Perhaps the greatest defeat the Roman Republic ever suffered was at the hands of Hannibal at the Battle of Cannae…
Britain is no country for young men
If I had to give one piece of advice to Britons under 30 it would be this: go. Leave. Skedaddle.…
Britain needs its missing workers back
Amid all the economic gloom at the moment, the unemployment figure is one bright spot. It is just 3.6 per…
The UK is getting caught in an austerity trap
The teenagers are once again in charge of UK fiscal policy. The teenagers are not the Chancellor and his team,…
The choice between higher immigration and even higher taxes
‘Only the higher-than-expected numbers of migrants coming to the UK under the post-Brexit migration regime adds materially to prospects for…
Cambridge University is blind to reality in the gender debate
Newnham College, Cambridge, was once a bastion of feminist activism. No longer. This summer my curiosity was drawn to two…
Is Iran going to execute its protestors?
Are protestors in Iran going to be sentenced to death? That grim question will be on the mind of many…
The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump
If you live in the world inhabited by Donald Trump’s strongest supporters, you’ve seen the man perform all sorts of…
Why the counting in Arizona is taking so long
“What’s the problem with Arizona?” I’ve been asked this question countless times in the past week, as I was after Election…
What does America want?
The time for speculation is over. Donald Trump has formally announced his intention to run for the Presidency in 2024…
Dan Andrews’ shame: the Melbourne we remember
I had hoped I wouldn’t be drawn to re-read David Satter’s It Was a Long Time Ago and it Never Happened…
Eco-crazy: where does this end?
One of the few bright spots during the early phase of the Covid pandemic was the sight of a smiling 99-year-old…
Jeremy Hunt is wrong about ‘British compassion’
Delivering his Autumn Statement on Thursday, Jeremy Hunt specified two ‘great national’ qualities: genius and ‘British compassion’. The Chancellor’s announcements…
Nancy Pelosi won’t go away
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that in the wake of Republicans taking the House, she’s doing exactly what the…
A hill to die on
In July 2021, when ‘vaccine passports’ were still a crazy conspiracy theory, I wrote an article for The Spectator Australia arguing that Australia must…
Victoria: the Upper House matters
Don’t look down on the Upper House Victorian voters have started numbering the boxes to determine who will run the…
Labour can’t believe they are heading for victory
Last night, Labour politicians wondered how to respond to the challenges the Chancellor was sending their way. Do you accept…
How ballot harvesting could save elections
“Ballot harvesting.” To some, it’s a creepy term, conjuring images of hulking party machines plowing through passive fields of citizens,…
Murdoch stumps up for Boris’s Montana meeting
Boris Johnson hasn’t always enjoyed the best relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s titles, having once been sacked as a Times trainee…
Jeremy Hunt takes the tax burden to post-war high
Jeremy Hunt has just announced the most austere fiscal statement since 2010. The Chancellor’s plan to plug the £55 billion…
Sunak’s Conservatives are the party of zero growth
We might get a new nuclear power station one day, unless the protestors or the Supreme Court find a way…
Hunt’s ‘Tesla tax’ doesn’t go far enough
There were some very chunky tax rises in the Autumn Statement, most of them using the device of ‘fiscal drag’,…
Joe Biden is the phantom of the Potomac
The day after the election last week, Roger Kimball posted a column here at The Spectator World acknowledging that he…
Labour’s attack lines are working
Rachel Reeves is getting better and better as Shadow Chancellor. Mind you, her response to Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement was…
