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The Middle East’s language wars
When the Middle East gets me down, I sometimes rewatch the video of Donald Trump announcing the death of ISIS…
Why JD Vance’s Munich speech matters
When was the last time a new U.S Vice President gave a truly memorable speech? The post has traditionally been…
Why Labour needs to think about religion
Liberalism, as Michael Lind has argued, is under attack because it cannot deliver the promised self-correcting markets that provide for…
JD Vance is right. Europe is in peril
On Wednesday evening, a man threw a fragmentation grenade into a café in Grenoble, leaving 15 people injured. The following…
Could Ukraine descend into civil war?
US President Donald Trump has announced that peace talks with Putin are set to begin ‘immediately’. While Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
Starmer is in denial about the high cost of defence
It is hard to think of a recent prime minister whose first months in office have seen defence in the…
How seriously will Putin take Ukraine negotiations?
We have no idea whether Vladimir Putin is serious about peace negotiations with Ukraine. He may simply be going through…
France’s churches are burning – and no one seems to care
France’s churches are under attack, yet the media and political establishment are pretending not to notice. Last year, we saw…
Bring back shortwave!
Aeschylus is credited first for the time-worn aphorism that in war, truth is the first casualty. But in the next…
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’…
