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Ukraine’s security depends on Europe’s courage
If anything was going to make Donald Trump come around to supporting Ukraine in its war with Russia, ‘rare earth…
Trump’s ICC sanctions will test an outdated institution
Once you get beyond trade and maritime borders, you will find that much of international law is, pace Clausewitz, the continuation of…
Keir Starmer is caught in a Trump trap
The mood of Keir Starmer’s foreign policy advisers was funereal as they contemplated the return of Donald Trump. The weeks…
Kemi Badenoch has a secret weapon in the fight against Nigel Farage
Things are currently looking choppy for Kemi Badenoch. Polls last weekend were bad enough, seven of them showing Reform leading…
Labour dodges scrutiny on efficiency savings
Well, well, well. Rachel Reeves has spent much of her seven months in power banging on about budget blackholes and…
Russia’s quest to woo Africa is paying off
The West may like to convince itself that it is, in the words of one American diplomat, ‘strangling the Russian…
Why Beckham’s wait for a knighthood goes on
The newspapers’ front page photograph of David and Victoria Beckham entering Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room was a publicity triumph…
Starmer will need a miracle to boost his ‘AI growth zones’
The government has unveiled its new ‘AI Opportunities Action Plan’ – a ten-syllable, fifty-point proposal to grow the UK’s AI…
TikTok, J.D. Vance’s new sherpa assignment
Fresh off guiding a series of President Trump’s nominees through the high-wire act of the cabinet approval process in the…
The call that shames the pro-Palestine movement
Some of us switch off when we hear a ‘loony left’ story. We might cock an eyebrow at the latest…
Can a second Kursk offensive give Ukraine bargaining power?
In theory, the Kursk salient is one of the most militarily insignificant fronts of Putin’s war on Ukraine. However, war…
Can Ukraine stop the bombings at its draft offices?
On 1 February, a young man walked into a military enlistment office in Rivne with a bomb in his backpack.…
The lesson Starmer should take from Trump’s foreign policy
Donald Trump has this week shown that he cares more about economic interests over inherited commitments – even to allies. By…
Soap operas have lost the plot
Soap bombshells are nothing new, but the land of light TV entertainment was rocked by some real-life drama this week:…
Sturgeon passes SNP election vetting
To Scotland, where the SNP is hard at work vetting its candidates for the 2026 Holyrood poll. But in typical…
Trump’s sanctions will hit the ICC hard
Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court (ICC) could sound the death knell of this important judicial…
Ed Miliband’s growth U-turn
Another day, another Labour U-turn. Now it’s Ed Miliband in the spotlight, after the Energy Secretary appeared to row back…
Lego isn’t homophobic
To the surprise of millions of children today, and to their parents who loved the toy when they were youngsters…
Macron needs to find his inner Trump
If a week is a long time in politics then eight years is an eternity. Just ask Donald Trump and…
Can Hamas ever be defeated?
No matter how many times it is vanquished or decisively discredited, ‘Palestinianism’ persists as an ideology unwilling to die. Rooted…
Marianne Faithfull and my truth about female beauty
The death of Marianne Faithfull last week at the age of 78 has got me thinking again about female beauty.…
Reform tops Spectator poll tracker
Nigel Farage’s Reform party are now out in front at the top of The Spectator data hub’s poll tracker. The latest update…
Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?
Now that the Southport killer Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced for his horrific crimes, we can try to understand how…
Kemi Badenoch is leading her party in the right direction on migration
Since becoming Conservative leader in November, Kemi Badenoch has taken a restrained approach to saying what she’d do if she…
Watch: Tory MP blasts ‘secretive’ assisted dying process
Back to the assisted dying bill, which has been at the centre of controversy since it came into being. As…
