Freddy Gray

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

No, Biden didn’t just snub Brexit Britain

22 September 2021 11:54 pm

For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of…

Boris is a mini-Biden

22 September 2021 4:00 am

It’s been said far too many times that Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have a lot in common. Trump himself…

Blue-tick Twitter is spoiling Emma Raducanu’s victory

13 September 2021 7:10 am

How do you take the pleasure out of something so marvellous and joyful as Emma Raducanu’s US open victory last…

What Biden learnt from Trump

21 August 2021 9:00 am

When was the only time America’s left-liberal media gave President Trump any real credit? The answer is 7 April 2017,…

Wrong then, wrong now – Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy

16 August 2021 7:42 am

‘After al-Qaeda and the Taliban fall… when we “drain the swamp”, as the President says, the medium-term goal is to…

The president of platitudes

15 June 2021 9:15 am

President Joe Biden turned up almost three hours late to his Nato press conference tonight. He offered no apology, because,…

Special time

12 June 2021 9:00 am

Biden and Boris will pretend the Trump presidency never happened

Buckle up!

24 April 2021 9:00 am

President Biden is on a wild progressive ride

The geriatic wokeness of Joe Biden

22 April 2021 11:17 pm

Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, has never been able to keep his mouth shut. Throughout his…

Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis

13 April 2021 11:04 pm

So far in the 2020s, American citizens have been hectored endlessly about wearing masks, staying safe indoors and standing apart…

Please Twitter, stop playing ‘Guess the Killer’s Race’

3 April 2021 7:56 am

Another day, another killing in America, another depressingly instant social-media argument over the perpetrator’s skin color. This time a man…

No, Meghan Markle isn’t going to be president

17 March 2021 8:19 am

OK, I’ll stick my neck out — Meghan Markle is never, ever going to be president of the United States…

Telling tales

13 March 2021 9:00 am

Harry and Meghan’s brand of revenge

The Trump Show enters its final season

11 February 2021 2:39 am

There is no point denying it — The Trump Show, the craziest comedy the God of TV has ever produced, has…

Bring on the Bidenisms

23 January 2021 9:00 am

The welcome return of the gaffe-prone president

Sharp left

9 January 2021 9:00 am

The Democrats have taken control of America

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The honorable Mike Pence

9 January 2021 6:30 am

Who would want to have been in Vice President Mike Pence’s shoes on Wednesday? In recent weeks, the more manic…

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America turns left

7 January 2021 3:59 am

In the days following the presidential election in November, political centrists reached a hasty verdict. Never mind all the squabbling…

US Supreme Court ends Trump’s last hope

12 December 2020 9:27 pm

This is the end, my only friend, the end. The Supreme Court yesterday struck down Texas’s legal bid to challenge…

Here comes President Joebama

28 November 2020 9:00 am

‘So you’re seeing a team develop that I have great confidence in,’ said former president Barack Obama this week when…

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‘He said, she said’ reports from the MAGA march

15 November 2020 9:23 pm

It’s all so infantile isn’t it? Antifa jackals harass Donald Trump fans during their ‘Million MAGA March’ on the streets…

Diary

14 November 2020 9:00 am

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is a useful stop for journalists looking for some rust-belt Americana not too far from New York. The…

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Deplorables don’t riot

9 November 2020 2:15 am

For months, the media has warned us that a narrow Joe Biden victory in the presidential election could lead to…

Divided states

7 November 2020 9:00 am

Once again, Trump has shown how well he understands America

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Who’s excited about a Biden presidency?

7 November 2020 1:17 am

‘You all…declare me dead. Guess what? I ain’t dead. I’m not going to die.’ That was Joe Biden back in…