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Syria’s nightmare isn’t over yet
Trying to predict what comes next in Syria after the toppling of dictator Bashar al-Assad is a fool’s errand. It…
In defence of Gareth Roberts
Readers need to be able to trust The Spectator. Every fact you read in the magazine must be true. And every…
The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is a truly sorry sight
It’s bad manners to complain about a gift of any kind, and very bad manners to complain about a Christmas…
Will Labour engage with HTS?
Is the fall of Bashar al-Assad really cause for celebration in Syria and across the world? UK government politicians have…
The new diplomacy of Nigel Farage
Nigel Farage is not generally seen as one of nature’s diplomats. Yet the Reform leader is proving to be a…
Is Britain really fated for economic decline?
Another day, another flurry of bad news on the fallout from October’s Budget. The BDO Monthly Business Trends indices –…
Beware Labour’s desire to get cosy with Europe
There was nothing seriously unexpected in Rachel Reeves’s speech today to EU finance ministers. Most of it was non-committal flim-flam:…
How Assad’s fall could reshape the Middle East
One hundred years after the world’s major powers conceived the landscape of the modern Middle East, the tumultuous events unfolding…
Labour’s clouded vision for the UK economy
The Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is out in the Gulf, peddling infrastructure projects to Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman.…
If Meloni is ‘far right’, why are neo-Nazis trying to kill her?
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna Italian police have arrested 12 alleged terrorists who are accused of plotting a Day of the Jackal…
Turkey’s Syrians are rejoicing, for now
On Sunday, thousands of Syrians poured out onto the streets of Istanbul to celebrate the fall of Bashar al-Assad. The…
Syria just proves the West is damned whatever it does
It is salutary to remember that were it not for Ed Miliband, Bashar al-Assad might have been deposed 11 years…
France has had enough of Germany’s bullying
There was one person missing in Paris on Saturday evening as France celebrated the resurrection of Notre Dame cathedral. The…
Mandarins shell out £130k for Starmer army’s offices
With a change of government, you might have thought 4 July would see a lot of new brooms in Whitehall.…
How chaos could return to Syria once again
‘The only certainty in war is human suffering, uncertain costs, unintended consequences.’ So said Barack Obama in a speech in…
Revealed: the 53 peers silent for five years
The wind of change is sweeping through the Upper House. What with Labour’s plans to expel the last hereditaries and…
America is not prepared for Syria after Assad
On Saturday afternoon, US intelligence officials leaked an assessment: the Assad regime, which has ruled Syria for over half a…
The absurdities of a ‘meritocracy fund’
‘Go woke, go broke,’ runs the catchphrase. Now, at last, we are presented with the welcome opportunity to put this…
Why men join the manosphere
The obsession with ‘toxic masculinity’ shows no sign of abating. As reported this weekend, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has…
How will HTS rule Syria?
Yesterday we woke to the astonishing news that the rebels from the Syrian opposition had taken Damascus and President Assad…
Suella Braverman’s husband joins Reform
Well, well, well. In a rather curious turn of events, it now transpires that Rael Braverman – husband of former…
Assad’s demise, Isis’s rise?
The Iranian-dominated Shia arc has collapsed. The keystone to the arc was Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the partnership that his father Hafiz al-Assad forged with the Iranian regime in…
Sunday shows: Rayner ‘welcomes’ fall of Assad
Deputy PM ‘welcomes the news’ that the Assad regime has fallen Rebel forces in Syria have captured Damascus, and Bashar…
Putin’s Middle Eastern house of cards
The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing as a great multi-regional power rather…
This is Iran’s annus horribilis
Iran’s Axis of Resistance is falling apart. Israel has significantly degraded Hezbollah’s capabilities and decapitated its leadership. Hamas has been…
