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Israel won’t hold back on Hezbollah for long
Israeli aircraft struck targets in Lebanon on Monday. Hezbollah and Hamas military infrastructure was targeted in the Hezbollah heartland of…
Britain will struggle to put ‘boots on the ground’ in Ukraine
The current conflict in Ukraine has frequently been compared to the first world war. There is an echo of the…
Trump’s Greenland grab would expose Europe’s ultimate weakness
As Donald Trump weighs up taking control of Greenland, Britain and the EU has fallen back on a familiar strategy:…
Is Viktor Orban about to lose power?
Hungary is bracing for its next general election in April. It is the tightest race since Viktor Orban came to…
WATCH: Trump imitates trans weightlifter for House Republicans
President Trump offered Republican members of Congress a stand-up routine involving an imitation of transgender athletes lifting weights at the…
It’s a bit rich for Keir Starmer to urge ministers to hold their nerve
Before Keir Starmer managed to escape Westminster for the relative safety of a European summit discussing war, the Prime Minister…
The Maccabi mess has exposed Britain’s babbling bobbies
You may recall the cancellation of the Maccabi Tel Aviv-Aston Villa game back in November. What has happened since is…
The John Lennon visa is now the OnlyFans visa
The US created the O-1B visa system in 1972 after John Lennon was nearly deported, and it became clear that…
Why would anyone want to rule Greenland?
It was the Viking, Erik the Red who, in AD 986, first saw Greenland’s potential. He wanted to colonize his…
Venezuela could transform the global oil industry
No one really knows how the situation in Venezuela will unfold over the next few years following President Trump’s audacious…
The case for annexing Greenland
What do you think: is it manifest destiny that the United States acquire or at least exercise control over Greenland?…
Britain can still escape Starmer’s dreadful Chagos deal
The government’s latest difficulties in the House of Lords over plans to surrender the Chagos islands is another humiliation for…
The inexorable decline of British Airways is a parable for modern Britain
British Airways used to bill itself, without irony, as ‘the nation’s favourite airline’. The days when it could legitimately use…
Iranians feel emboldened – but protestors are paying a heavy price
For the past fortnight, Rozita (not her real name) has been out on the streets of Tehran, calling for an…
The truth about Keir Starmer’s EU ‘reset’
As Keir Starmer found out with digital ID, what the public initially says it wants isn’t always what it turns…
Venezuela has left Trump feeling cocky
There was no dancing, let alone prancing, in the Brooklyn courtroom as former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was arraigned on…
The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub
Finally, the left has found a ‘kidnap victim’ it cares about. Having spent more than two years making excuses for…
Three cheers for the death of the music video!
MTV has pulled down the shutters on its dedicated music video channels, casting off what remained of its original raison…
Woke isn’t dead – and here’s the proof
In one respect, the scaremongers are right: Racism is alive and well in this country, being imbedded in our institutions…
Maduro appears in NY court as Venezuela replaces him
There was no dancing, let alone prancing, in the Manhattan courtroom as former Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro was arraigned on…
Lords force Chagos deal delay
Three cheers for the House of Lords. Labour might be trying to pack Britain’s second chamber with as many placemen…
The chief of West Midlands Police must resign
The actions of West Midlands Police in the case of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football ban are perhaps the most…
Watch: Labour MP attacks Starmer
It’s all kicking off in the Commons tonight. The smash-and-grab assault on Caracas continues to dominate conversations in Westminster, with…
Nicolás Maduro’s How to Win Friends and Influence People
Cockburn stumbled into The Spectator’s New York office this morning afflicted with that annual January woe: the post-holiday blues. He…
Was Maduro’s capture the greatest special forces raid in history?
On this occasion no one can accuse Donald Trump of hyperbole. The President praised the Delta Force team that seized…
