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Donald Trump has blown apart America’s failing status quo
Political science uses anaemic jargon. The ‘Overton Window’ frames all topics that at any given moment are deemed to be…
JD Vance’s criticism of Europe is hard to take
JD Vance certainly knows how to grab people’s attention. In a landmark address to the Munich Security Conference, he accused…
Wine highlights from Inauguration Day
I write a few days after the Big Event in Washington, DC on January 20, 2025. For us deplorables, it…
How Trump is revolutionizing Washington
Weeks into his second term, it’s clear President Trump intends to be the most transformative force our politics has seen…
Read: JD Vance’s full speech on the fall of Europe
Here’s a full transcript of the speech that JD Vance gave at the Munich Security Conference this afternoon. One of…
Vance: Free speech ‘in retreat’ in UK
To Germany, where the Munich Security Conference is in full swing. The city is hosting a number of political bigwigs…
Dinner for one is the best way to spend Valentine’s Day
This Valentine’s Day, as the nation does its duty and celebrates by dining out, often in stilted discomfort, it occurs…
Feminist coding and Armenian fashion week – my findings from Spaff
The Spectator Project Against Frivolous Funding, or Spaff, has been launched this week to shine a light on government waste.…
In defence of The Apprentice’s Jana Denzel
The front page of the Sun today pronounced that a star on the television show The Apprentice has quit for using ‘racist…
£1m spent on 2024 Jobcentre translation services
Well, well, well. It turns out that just under £1 million was spent on Jobcentre translation last year, with £882,118…
Starmer backs Nato membership for Ukraine
Keir Starmer has reassured the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky of Britain’s ‘commitment to Ukraine being on an irreversible path to…
Why didn’t Starmer go to Munich?
The Munich Security Conference, which this week gathers in the Bavarian capital for its 61st edition, is a big deal…
Why Britain is crucial to Ukraine peace talks
Britain has the opportunity to become a master in tightrope diplomacy between Donald Trump and an increasingly alarmed Europe after…
Assisted dying bill could see ‘death czar’ judge cases
Back to the assisted dying bill which, it would appear, seems to be dying a slow death itself. The legislation…
Europe and the death of Nato
There has been no more effective and successful defensive alliance in history than Nato. The unity and determination of Nato’s…
Donald Trump is making the same mistake as Neville Chamberlain
It is easy to forget how popular Neville Chamberlain was in the autumn of 1938. Proclaiming ‘peace in our time’…
Our future is a ‘mafiacracy’
If the nightmare of anticommunists during the cold war was an endless future of totalitarian terror, the nightmare of today’s…
What Elon Musk can learn from Javier Milei
Did Argentina pave the way for Elon Musk’s Doge? At the very least, Javier Milei’s famous chainsaw has provided a…
Will Ed Miliband see sense and drill British gas?
The government says it wants to stop the ‘blockers’ which are holding back Britain’s economy. It also says it wants…
The surprising fall of Germany’s populist far-left party
For all the alarm about the instability of German politics, the results of this month’s federal election campaign seem –…
Why does Louis Theroux keep picking on Israeli settlers?
When is Louis Theroux going to make a documentary where he embeds himself with Hamas in Gaza? Or Palestinian Islamic…
Bridget Jones is no feminist
Bridget Jones isn’t what she used to be. The latest film, Mad About the Boy, features Bridget as a grieving widow…
The perfect genius of P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘never-never land’
Pelham Grenville (PG – or Plum) Wodehouse breathed his last on Valentine’s Day fifty years ago. As Evelyn Waugh saw…
How the judiciary fuel Europe’s migrant crisis
If Europeans wanted evidence that it is judges and not politicians who run their countries this month has proved it.…
How long will Sturgeon cling on in Holyrood?
To Scotland, where Nicola Sturgeon is, er, not very busy. In fact, Mr S can reveal the SNP’s former Dear…
