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Harris’s premeditated potshot won’t come close to sinking Biden
Joe Biden ran two presidential campaigns alongside Barack Obama and served as vice president for eight years, yet his decades-old…
The Democrats are too fake for 2020
Joe Biden bled last night. Kamala Harris slashed him to ribbons over his opposition to busing and his kind words…
Brexit party MEP Claire Fox shows solidarity with Boris
Tom Penn and Eve Leigh, the next-door Remainer neighbours of Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds who recorded their late-night row,…
Joe Biden starts strong but fizzles out in the Democratic debate
Day 2 of the Democratic presidential debates was a touch feistier than day 1, likely because the heavy hitters shared…
Will Trump enter the hypersonic nuclear arms race?
The Pentagon is urgently reviewing just how and when the president might launch nuclear missiles as a dangerous new nuclear…
Boris’s campaign is a triumph
Forget what you’ve been told about the Conservative leadership campaign. The Boris campaign’s weekend meltdown has not lost him the election. And…
Can teachers be trusted to teach about sex and relationships?
According to the Education Secretary Damian Hinds, ‘every child must learn about gay relationships before leaving school’. Under plans drawn…
Prince Charles’ irresponsible support for homeopathy
You might have thought that many of the world’s scientists and doctors had come to an unequivocal decision on homeopathy:…
Will the next prime minister betray Hong Kong again?
For many years, a framed cover of The Spectator looked down, like a silent reproach, on the drinkers in the…
Beto O’Rourke is the big loser in the Democratic debate
Notepads out, pencils in-hand, and water at the ready, a pack of Democratic presidential candidates did battle last night in…
A pathetic exhibition of virtue-signaling in Miami
A genuine liberal education is as much an education of the emotions as it is an education of the intellect.…
Why neither Boris nor Hunt can stop a no-deal Brexit
There is a lot of confusion about Boris Johnson’s approach to Brexit. And that is deliberate because the candidate has yet…
Spare a thought for the single-digit 2020 Democrats
Who was the last person you felt genuinely sorry for? A newly unemployed blue-collar worker who’s been ‘innovated’ out of…
Why Tories are hooked on Boris Johnson
Modern politicians are like drug dealers intent on keeping their clients’ hooked. They sell fixes to their core voters: upping…
The Democratic debates drinking game
Now that former Pennsylvania congressman Joe Sestak has entered the race, there are now 24 Democratic candidates for the presidency…
Boris’s secret weapon in the fight against Corbyn
After nine years cleaning up Labour’s mess, things are looking up. Government debt as a share of the economy is…
Boris and Carrie’s staged picture is a PR masterstroke
Whatever you think of Boris Johnson’s ability to be Prime Minister you have to admire the PR skills of Carrie…
Michael Wolff: the Mueller indictment document ‘sits on my desk’
On Friday, I had the pleasure of recording a podcast with Michael Wolff at his hotel in Mayfair. Wolff is…
AOC: ignorant or anti-Semitic?
When my grandmother Masha was liberated by the British Army from the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, she was 19…
The shameful hounding of Carrie Symonds
Who’s really harassing Carrie Symonds? We have no proof that her boyfriend Boris Johnson is. One surreptitiously recorded late-night row…
Could Boris Johnson command the confidence of the Commons?
Could Boris Johnson command the confidence of the Commons? That’s the question being asked in Westminster this week as various…
The Bernie Sanders paradox
Anton Gunn was holding court at the South Carolina Democratic Convention this weekend, eager to regale journalists with tales of…
Boris Johnson’s other woman
There are few stranger relationships in Westminster than the close alliance of Boris Johnson and the campaigner, author, and self-described…
The confusing modern rules of telling a ‘joke’
The pace of outrage is such these days that before anybody has thought through any one outrage we are all…
Why Tory members don’t care about the Carrie Symonds row
This is what a senior member of the cabinet told me this morning about whether Boris Johnson’s prospects of becoming…
