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An open letter to the Democratic party
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Dear Democrats, I’m mad at you. I was raised…
Is this the beginning of the end for Jeremy Corbyn?
Did Labour’s conference help or hinder Jeremy Corbyn’s chances of becoming prime minister? For some, Corbyn ended up stronger than…
Impeachment is a bad bet for everyone
Is Donald Trump going to be impeached? Nancy Pelosi is not giving herself much room to maneuver: once a Democratic-led…
Impeachment shows the Democrats are addicted to chaos
Democrats have long criticized Donald Trump’s addiction to Twitter, his limited rolling-news attention span and the narcissism of his reality…
Corbyn takes aim at Labour’s favourite bogeymen in conference speech
Jeremy Corbyn has just delivered one of his better party conference speeches. It wasn’t just because it was much shorter…
Brexiteers should cheer the Supreme Court
Ignore, with great respect, the people telling you today that the justices of the Supreme Court have waded into politics,…
Corbyn makes the most of Boris Johnson’s misfortune
The Supreme Court ruling has provided Jeremy Corbyn with his most positive outing at Labour conference. On hearing the news…
Boris Johnson would be foolish to underestimate Labour
In the next election, as in the last one, McDonnellism will prove a serious challenge to the Tories. John McDonnell,…
Tories should be terrified of John McDonnell
Once again, question marks surround Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. This is not new. While I was at 10 Downing Street, with the small…
The truth about David Cameron’s progressive legacy
One of the downsides of all this snarking at David Cameron over Brexit is that the rest of his legacy…
Bailing out Thomas Cook would have been a mistake
The biggest victim of the failure of Thomas Cook is the worldly reputation of its eponymous creator – a sober…
Joe Biden versus the internet
The paradox of Joe Biden is well known. How does the experienced, effective, formidable politician turn into such a fiasco-stalked…
If Richard Dawkins loves facts so much, why can’t he get them right?
Professor Richard Dawkins has written a book called Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide. Its aim is to save children and…
How to stop a drone attack
Drones have come of age in the war on terror. When the United States and Britain invaded Afghanistan in 2001,…
Joe Biden’s fractious relationship with the truth
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. ‘He ran twice for president and lost when he…
It’s no surprise that Brexit looks doomed
I have a friend who insists that he takes little interest in politics. Even so, the other evening he came…
The eve of the Bernie-Warren online battle
The great ‘Bernie vs. Warren’ online wars have yet to fully commence, and the current state of affairs resembles something…
Kiev won’t chicken out over Trump’s desired Biden probe
For several years Donald Trump has depicted himself as a kind of Roger Thornhill, the advertising executive in Alfred Hitchcock’s…
The Mueller inquiry was an attempted coup
More official reports, reprimands and (probably) indictments are to come in the Great Get Trump imbroglio of 2016 to 2019.…
Farewell to Bill de Blasio, 2020’s least consequential candidate
Friday news drops are often saved for surprising or important stories. What NYC mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Morning…
School climate strikers should answer these two questions
“The Earth is dying”, “the world is on fire”, we’re undergoing an “environmental extinction”: just three of the sentiments which…
Will the Supreme Court end the prorogation of Parliament?
At the close of Supreme Court proceedings on Thursday, there was quite a lot of to and fro about what…
Justin Trudeau isn’t a racist, he’s a spoiled rich kid
I don’t like to say I told you so — I bloody love it. Lo, a whole 19 months ago,…
Robert C. O’Brien, Trump’s good soldier
With the appointment of Robert C. O’Brien to serve as national security adviser, Donald Trump will once more disappoint his…
What Corbyn’s Brexit policy means for a general election
Jeremy Corbyn has dashed the hopes of certain members of his shadow cabinet this morning with a Guardian op-ed in…
