Isis’s weakness is now its strength
As coronavirus swept the globe a year ago, Isis began issuing pronouncements. ‘God, by his will, sent a punishment to…
Stop the real steal
If you want to get rich, start a religion. The line actually comes from Orwell, but is ofter (and entirely…
Biden’s speech impediment
Does Joe Biden write his own speeches? Surely not. Yet his campaign says Biden was his own speechwriter for the address he made…
Iran vs the rest: the Middle East has reached a tipping point
The next six weeks will be crucial for the Middle East
The inevitability of Trump 2024
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Trump 2024! He definitely lost – but he’s not finished yet
Donald Trump’s increasingly outrageous attempts to contest the results of the US presidential election were given their absurd symbol early…
Donald Trump is preparing to strike his greatest deal yet
A New Yorker cartoon shows Donald Trump in an orange jumpsuit. Until last night, his enemies could enjoyably salivate over…
Michael Cohen: ‘I lied for Trump, but that doesn’t make me a liar’
Michael Cohen on the cult of The Donald
Will Trump refuse to leave?
At a drinks party in Washington DC just after Donald Trump was elected, someone from the old regime told me: ‘This…
The hostages’ president
President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…
Pardon Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden says he didn’t mean to end up in Russia when he fled the United States to leak secrets…
The mood in Lebanon is for revolution
The mood in Lebanon is for revolution
The war for your mind
The romantic plans of a Kazakh bodybuilder named Yuri Tolochko have become one more casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. He…
Was the ‘pee tape’ a lie all along?
Sir Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, famously said that at times she’d felt as if the Suez Canal was flowing through…
How much worse can things get for Lebanon?
Just before Twitter started firing out messages about a ‘bomb’ in Beirut, our cleaner rang us in tears, shaking, telling…
How rich is Trump?
The celebrations by Donald Trump’s opponents may be premature. Despite the Supreme Court’s ruling that he is not above the…
Prodigal son-in-law
A friend in Washington saw Jared and Ivanka at a couple of smart DC dinner parties in the first year…
Should we be testing everyone?
The case for universal testing
What if a virus were ever used as a WMD?
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Faced with the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump…
Will coronavirus lead to a US war with Iran?
In a roundabout way, coronavirus may have been responsible for the deaths of two American service personnel and a British…
Andy Khawaja: ‘The whistleblower’
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. It’s after 2 a.m. in Club 38, a nightspot in…
Iraq may now have to choose between America and Iran
To be fair to president Donald Trump, he has not rushed to confront with Iran. Last June, he stopped airstrikes…
Where did the money come from for Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine operations?
Donald Trump is about to become only the third US president to be impeached —or charged with a crime —…
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Pax Russica: as Trump abandons Syria’s Kurds, Russia is ready to expand its empire
While American troops were hurriedly leaving north-eastern Syria, a young female Kurdish politician called Hervin Khalaf was pulled from her…
