Freddy Gray

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

The Trump-Harris election has broken America

6 November 2024 1:09 am

‘Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all,’ said Balfour. Tell that to the American political class on…

Has the Trump campaign stalled?

3 November 2024 3:10 am

The ‘Trumpmentum’ of the last few weeks couldn’t last forever. Now, with less than four days to go until election…

Team Trump: who’s in – and who’s out?

2 November 2024 9:00 am

If Donald Trump wins back the White House next week, adopt the brace position. His opponents will go beserk, inevitably,…

Donald Trump, Liz Cheney and the great realignment in US politics

2 November 2024 3:05 am

For Donald Trump fans, one of the many creepy curiosities of this year’s presidential election is that Liz and Dick…

When it comes to trash talk, you can’t beat the Donald

1 November 2024 4:30 am

‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’ is a computer programming principle which states that the quality of a system’s output is determined…

I can handle Trump, Farage tells Labour

26 October 2024 4:14 am

Nigel Farage was on gregarious and ebullient form at our Americano US election event in Westminster last night. He confidently…

The British are coming! Labour’s comedy of errors in the US election

23 October 2024 8:40 pm

Our hapless Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, can’t even fly to Samoa without another international British embarrassment breaking out. The latest…

Why is Trump beating Kamala to the Arab vote?

23 October 2024 5:03 am

Some experts believe that Donald Trump is on course to win a bigger share of the African American vote in…

Donald Trump is bringing the joy at just the right moment

21 October 2024 10:30 pm

Donald Trump is many things. Most of all, he is the quintessential American entrepreneur. He sees the upside in everything.…

Trump’s Chicago interview was magnificently weird

16 October 2024 5:41 pm

Kamala Harris has been criticising Donald Trump for ducking interviews. Today, however, she avoided a sit-down with the Economic Club…

Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem

15 October 2024 12:28 am

As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President…

Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview was Prince Andrew-like in its awfulness

8 October 2024 7:25 pm

Somebody give Bill Whitaker a prize. In his 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired last night, the CBS…

What is Melania Trump up to?

5 October 2024 10:00 am

For eight years, Melania Trump has done a brilliant job of keeping us all guessing. Is she, as gossips have…

J.D. Vance dominated the VP debate

2 October 2024 6:23 pm

To manage expectations in the run-up to last night’s debate, Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, let it be…

Joe Biden’s dishonest farewell tour

25 September 2024 3:28 am

‘Some things are more important than staying in power,’ Joe Biden just told the United Nations, and the General Assembly…

Donald Trump could have the last laugh on crypto

17 September 2024 9:38 pm

A day after nearly being shot again, the 78-year-old Donald Trump is once more being mocked for sounding like a…

What doesn’t kill Trump makes him stronger

16 September 2024 9:16 am

As if there hadn’t been enough drama in America in 2024, Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt. The attempted…

There’s still everything to play for in America’s election

14 September 2024 9:00 am

The first presidential debate of 2024 changed history by killing off Joe Biden’s career. The second presidential debate was nowhere…

No, Joe Biden is not a latter-day George Washington

8 September 2024 7:30 pm

George Clooney this week praised Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw from the 2024 election as ‘the most selfless thing that…

Kamala Harris and the audacity of desperation

5 September 2024 10:00 am

Barack Obama wrote The Audacity of Hope. The Kamala Harris story of 2024 could be called The Audacity of Desperation. Her brief…

Can Kamala Harris bluff her way to the White House?

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Chicago ‘There are no disasters,’ said Boris Johnson, who was born in America. ‘Only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh…

Has RFK just started the NeverHarris movement?

24 August 2024 6:29 am

As recently as July, Robert F. Kennedy Jr was still winning up to 15 per cent support as an independent…

Kamala Harris’s DNC speech was surprisingly good

23 August 2024 4:59 pm

Chicago The Democratic National Convention this week has been all razzle, dazzle and repetition. Endless platitudes about freedom, values, love,…

Sharing riot videos? You’re part of the problem

10 August 2024 9:00 am

We’re told these riots are about immigration, racism, angry Islam, elite blindness and identity politics – and, to a point,…

Is the Trump ‘meltdown’ a Democratic fantasy?

8 August 2024 12:10 am

Talk of Donald Trump ‘meltdowns’ tends to be overblown. For eight years, we’ve been told, frequently, that he’s losing the…