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Can the Liberal Democrats become relevant again?
With neither the Conservatives nor the Labour party keen to talk publicly at least about softening Brexit, is there a…
Credit Suisse’s takeover delivers a shock to bond investors
If the emergency takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS was supposed to calm markets, it is not looking that way…
Rishi Sunak faces judgment day on his Brexit deal
Rishi Sunak has received plaudits from MPs, foreign leaders and the media over the Windsor Framework. Yet the deal has…
The trials and triumphs of Jacqueline Gold
By all accounts, Jacqueline Gold, the executive chair of Ann Summers who has died aged 62, was a devoted family woman. This…
The last thing we need is more TV adaptations of Dickens
Allow me to introduce you to a fun game you can play in your own parlour. You take it in…
20 years on: How The Spectator covered the Iraq war
This morning, two decades ago, ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ began. A bombing campaign of ‘shock and awe’ was launched, with George…
J.D. Vance makes a big, bipartisan first impression
J.D. Vance gained prominence in 2016 for appealing to two camps. His critique of the roots of rural poverty, relayed…
Credit Suisse has been bought out – but at what cost?
Another Sunday, another banking takeover swiftly arranged before markets open on Monday morning. This time Credit Suisse has agreed to be…
Is the banking system on the brink?
Has a full-scale banking crisis been avoided? UBS has just swooped to take over its rival Credit Suisse, paying for…
How to wine and dine
If you dare to host a dinner party, said Brillat-Savarin, you must be prepared to be responsible for your guests’…
Why women should stop taking the pill
The notorious Infowars host Alex Jones once opined that he didn’t like the government “putting chemicals in the water that turn the…
Are we failing to learn lessons from the Holocaust?
Ninety years ago this week, the acting chief of the Munich Police Department held a press conference. The new man…
Next week’s privileges committee could decide Boris’s fate
Boris Johnson was reselected on Thursday night as the Conservative candidate for Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency. Yet the future…
There is no upside for Trump if he’s arrested
It’s getting Stormy for Donald Trump. In a lengthy message on his TruthSocial site on Saturday morning, Trump announced that…
A new book and a newborn
One of the most famous lines from the classic 2002 romcom Sweet Home Alabama has leading lady Reese Witherspoon incredulously asking a…
Why the national divorce worked: a future history
The following is an excerpt from Yale University law professor Elizabeth Friedkin’s remarks to the 2026 International Federation of United…
Poland, 1968: the last pogrom
‘Are you Jewish?’ the officious-looking Dutch diplomat asked my dad. ‘Yes’, he said, realising at that very moment, everything had…
What can save Credit Suisse now?
It would be enough to buy Tesco twice over. Or Barclays, with almost enough change left over to buy Lloyds…
Make Sex Wild Again
The notorious Infowars host Alex Jones once opined that he didn’t like the government ‘putting chemicals in the water that…
Did Covid really originate in Wuhan’s seafood market?
There is new evidence pointing to the origin of Covid being in the seafood market in Wuhan. That, at least,…
A morally simplistic kids’ film: Extrapolations reviewed
We are all, of course, pretty well doomed. We know that because Al Gore told us so in his documentary…
Mental health: an anatomy of a very British crisis
No victory is ever final in politics – and the wrecking-ball of lockdowns seems to have destroyed all of the…
Is this the man who will one day take over from Putin?
Boris Ratnikov, a former KGB officer and retired chief advisor to Russia’s security service, gave a remarkable interview back in…
Was Leonardo da Vinci’s mother a slave?
There is great excitement in Italy, which has spilled over into the British press: Carlo Vecce, a professor from Naples,…
The ‘sham subculture’ sparking panic in the Kremlin
Their two countries may be at war, but Russian and Ukrainian police have a common and apparently formidable enemy. That…
