Bolsonaro’s conviction reveals a divided Brazil
Brazil’s former right-wing president Jair Bolsanaro has been sentenced to 27 years in jail after being found guilty by the…
Is it all over for Milei?
A landslide election defeat for Argentine President Javier Milei’s Libertad Avanza party has made money markets doubt whether he will…
Bring on the driverless Tube
London’s entire underground tube system – apart from the Elizabeth Line – is being paralysed for almost a week by a…
Reform needs ex-Labour people too
Back in July I wrote in these pages that if too many Tories joined Reform, Nigel Farage’s party would risk…
Will Trump cripple Brazil if Jair Bolsonaro is found guilty?
The trial of Brazil’s former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of plotting a coup to topple the current President…
Trump’s strike on the Venezuelan ‘narco terrorists’
President Trump has authorized what he called a “kinetic strike” from a US warship that destroyed a boat allegedly carrying…
Mexico seethes over cartels, ‘gringos’ and migrants
ranging from the fate of 130,000 people who have “disappeared” in the country’s drug wars, to discontent over the “gentrification”…
Will Venezuela crisis spill into conflict with US?
The authoritarian left wing regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has mobilized his ruling Socialist party’s paramilitary militia in response…
The remarkable life of Peter Kemp, warrior and Spectator writer
Today is the 110th anniversary of the birth of a former Spectator correspondent who took part in and survived more…
Socialism ends in Bolivia after two decades
Bolivia is to be treated to a nail-biting run-off this autumn between two conservatives in the race to be the…
What if Starmer had been prime minister in the second world war?
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has posed a fascinating counter-factual question about our Prime Minister: what if Keir…
Horst Mahler, the far-left terrorist who became a neo-Nazi
One of the strangest German lives in the post-second world war era closed on 27 July 2025 with the death…
Reform is right to reject Liz Truss
Reform UK topping the opinion polls and winning local council elections has prompted several leading Tories to defect. But now…
How The Salt Path bewitched a nation
Like millions of others, I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Salt Path, an account of how a penniless and homeless middle-aged couple…
There’ll never be another Norman Tebbit
The death of Norman Tebbit at the great age of 94 marks a real ending of an era. They simply…
History does not favour Musk’s new America party
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has announced that he intends to create a new third party in the US…
Oxfam’s Gaza propaganda
An astonishing email from Oxfam, one of Britain’s oldest and biggest humanitarian charities, dropped into my inbox this week. Dramatically…
Nigel Farage is looking unstoppable
Opinion polls are notoriously a snapshot rather than a prediction, but the latest Ipsos survey of more than 1,100 voters…
This is Netanyahu’s Churchill moment
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in precisely…
Farewell to the Frederick Forsyth I knew
We writers generally live dull and boring lives, tied to our desks painfully wresting words out of mundane experiences: not…
Zia Yusuf’s resignation won’t harm Reform
The sudden resignation of Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf came as a shock in Westminster yesterday – but is unlikely…
Lord Hermer’s ‘Nazi jibe’ at Reform won’t work
It is an axiom of political debate that once you compare your opponents to Hitler’s Nazis you have definitely lost…
Reform must prove to voters they’re more than a protest party
Reform is now touching 30 per cent in the polls, as Labour lags on 22 per cent and the Tories…
The far right is gaining footholds across Europe
The relentless rise of the populist right in Europe has been confirmed by provisional first results of elections held yesterday…
A Dad’s Army won’t save Britain
Eighty-five years ago, on 14 May 1940, Anthony Eden, newly-appointed secretary of war in Winston Churchill’s government, went on the…
