Freddy Gray

Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator. He was formerly literary editor of The American Conservative.

Will the FBI shed light on the Trump shooting?

10 July 2025 10:58 pm

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino have this week found out the painful way that running the Federal Bureau of Investigation…

Trump scrambles to close the deal

3 July 2025 10:00 pm

In the early hours of this morning, Donald Trump must have been thinking that, compared to passing legislation through Congress,…

As Donald Trump declares peace, the war goes on

24 June 2025 7:47 pm

Donald Trump’s presidency is often compared to a reality TV show. Yet that conceit barely captures the radical strangeness of…

Who’s pushing Trump to be an Iran hawk?

21 June 2025 9:00 am

‘This never would have happened if I had been president,’ says Donald Trump, whenever the international news goes from bad…

Trump’s birthday surprise – war with Iran?

13 June 2025 2:01 am

The Trump presidency is giving us all a type of news-related diabetes. So much sensational information is spewing out of…

Bannon on LA riots: ‘We’re in World War Three’

10 June 2025 2:41 am

It’s all war all the time inside Steve Bannon’s War Room in Capitol Hill.  “We’re in the Third World War,”…

Will Putin help Trump’s Iran deal?

6 June 2025 5:31 am

Spectacular. Stunning. Game-changing. These are just three of the adjectives news reporters have used to describe Ukraine’s attack deep within…

Is Elon Musk OK?

30 May 2025 1:41 am

Elon Musk understands astrophysics, yet seems to have failed to grasp the strange laws of gravity which govern Washington politics.…

What we know about the Israeli diplomat shootings in Washington so far

22 May 2025 7:10 pm

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, was seen pacing around Washington DC’s Jewish Museum in the minutes before last…

Israeli Embassy staffers shot dead in DC

22 May 2025 6:27 pm

Two Israeli Embassy staffers – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram – were shot dead outside an event in Washington, DC,…

How Donald Trump will be impeached

16 May 2025 1:32 am

From the election in November to the presidential inauguration in January, media commentators took turns to pronounce the Trump “Resistance”…

Is Pope Leo XIV part of the ‘Trumplash’?

9 May 2025 5:42 am

It feels a bit facile and tasteless to say that the first American Pope, Leo XIV, has been elected to…

Is the US-UK trade deal a coup for Starmer — or Trump?

8 May 2025 5:26 pm

It’s musical deals in world politics at the moment. Last week, Donald Trump and his senior officials intimated that a…

Trump’s big gambles are paying off

3 May 2025 9:00 am

‘I run the country and the world,’ said President Donald Trump last week. That’s not really an exaggeration. In our…

What’s going on in the Pentagon?

18 April 2025 2:07 am

In the past two days, three senior Defense Department officials have been suspended and one has resigned. Their departures are…

Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?

12 April 2025 9:00 am

A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that…

Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap

27 March 2025 3:05 am

Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration…

What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed

25 March 2025 6:21 am

Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response. It defies…

Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped…

Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice

18 March 2025 8:06 pm

Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to…

How the ghost of Iraq haunts peace in Ukraine

5 March 2025 5:14 am

It’s great that JD Vance is all for free speech, though he does tend to shoot off his mouth in…

Chagos – the riviera of the Indian Ocean?

28 February 2025 12:50 am

Keir Starmer seemed on unusually good form as he arrived in Washington last night. He cracked quite a good joke about the…

The cruellest thing about Trump vs Zelensky? Trump’s right

21 February 2025 2:32 am

And just like that, we are back in 2017. Donald Trump, the President of the United States, is posting ridiculous…

Is Jared Kushner behind Trump’s ‘Riviera of the Middle East’ plan?

5 February 2025 9:50 pm

Who knew that America First had such global ambitions? Who knew that, when Donald Trump promised ‘mass deportations’, he also…

The many questions of the Washington plane crash

30 January 2025 7:46 pm

‘What a terrible night this has been,’ writes President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform. ‘God bless you all!’ Trump…