Freddy Gray

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

What have we actually learnt from Trump's tax revelations?

28 September 2020 7:25 pm

Is anyone really surprised that Donald Trump’s tax affairs are opaque? Or that he is not as rich as he…

Is Trump's campaign running out of cash?

8 September 2020 9:50 pm

You can tell something about a campaign by the desperation-levels of its fundraising emails. In recent weeks, Team Trump’s digital…

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Is Donald Trump really anti-abortion?

6 September 2020 8:39 pm

At the Republican National Convention last month, he was repeatedly described as the ‘most pro-life President ever’. According to some…

The Trump show: he could just win again

29 August 2020 9:00 am

Is Trump about to pull off his most spectacular trick yet?

Trump goes for Biden’s jugular in convention speech

28 August 2020 6:30 pm

President Donald J. Trump just gave an impressive and unprecedented State of the Union address from the lawn of the…

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Donald Trump is still the greatest show on Earth

27 August 2020 6:25 am

‘Keep America Great’ is President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election slogan and it sounds off. The phrase doesn’t have the same…

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The mob are turning into Trump’s useful idiots

24 August 2020 10:51 pm

Protesters have been setting fire to yet another American city today to tell us that black lives matter. This latest…

Wholesome, intimate and suspiciously vague: The Michelle Obama Podcast reviewed

22 August 2020 9:00 am

Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew…

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The Michelle Obama Podcast is wholesome, intimate and suspiciously vague

21 August 2020 2:28 am

Back in March, I made a long-odds bet that Michelle Obama would be the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nominee. I knew…

Kamala chameleon: the many faces of Biden’s running mate

15 August 2020 9:00 am

Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…

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Kamala chameleon

13 August 2020 5:38 am

Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…

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There is no ‘do no harm’ VP pick

10 August 2020 10:56 pm

If you’ve kept half an eye on the ‘who will it be?’ story that is the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nomination,…

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Have we passed peak Biden?

4 August 2020 3:12 am

A consensus has formed about this presidential election: it is Joe Biden’s to lose. As long as his vice-presidential nomination…

The real Joe Biden: what would his presidency look like?

1 August 2020 9:00 am

What should the world expect from a President Biden?

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The real Joe Biden: what would his presidency look like?

30 July 2020 1:23 pm

It is usually a bad idea for a presidential candidate to leave himself open to the accusation that he is…

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Trump takes on anti-nationalism

4 July 2020 9:44 pm

Even the most ardent Trumpist must admit that it has been a bad few months for the President. The COVID-19…

John Bolton is a greedy hack

18 June 2020 10:39 pm

Bolton is a peculiar and stubborn man – you can tell that from his moustache. He’s also a greedy hack.…

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Society isn’t systemically racist. It is systemically woke

15 June 2020 4:30 am

Structural, systemic, systematically — we’re hearing these words a lot at the moment. Racism isn’t individual. It is structural or…

America is burning – and it could cost Trump the presidency

6 June 2020 9:00 am

Will civil unrest seal Trump’s downfall?

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Lady Luck has deserted Trump

4 June 2020 1:39 pm

‘The crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon come to an end,’ said Donald Trump on July…

America’s immune system is failing

30 May 2020 6:48 pm

‘This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,’ said President Donald Trump in his inauguration speech on January…

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Twitter spreads riot porn — but censors a President vowing to restore law and order

29 May 2020 8:44 pm

If you have been following the Minneapolis riots on Twitter or Facebook, you may have come across an edgy new…

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Biden’s mental frailty makes him a Teflon candidate

23 May 2020 2:52 am

President Trump gets away with a lot because much of the world thinks he’s a buffoon. Former vice president Joe…

Hiding Biden is the best way to get him elected

9 May 2020 9:00 am

The less voters see the Democratic nominee, the more they like him

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Hiding Biden is the best way to get him elected

7 May 2020 1:09 pm

So Mrs American Voter, which septuagenarian sex abuser do you want to be President? The whole ‘#MeToo’ business probably should…