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Prince Harry will regret invading his privacy with his ‘Spare’ sex scene
What a pity that memoirs don’t qualify for the Bad Sex in Literature prize. If they did, the description of…
Rishi Sunak is right to challenge Europe’s human rights treaty
Rishi Sunak senses, rightly, that tough talk on the Channel migrant issue will go down well in both middle England…
Syria might never recover from the devastation of this earthquake
Natural disaster always worst affects those who have already lost so much. And so it is in Turkey and Syria,…
Kamala Harris’s top ten word salads
No assessment of Vice President Kamala Harris’s first two years in office would be complete without her word salads and…
Liz Truss, Brexit and the petulant anger at reality
The time it takes to mount a political comeback gets shorter and shorter, doesn’t it? The last prime minister but…
Poll: public want a ‘modest’ coronation
Strikes. Inflation. Political instability. It’s been a pretty miserable few months in Britain – but some in government are hoping…
Should it be illegal to ‘influence’ a woman seeking an abortion?
Law-making is a funny old business. My move from commentator to legislator has brought with it some poacher-turned-gamekeeper quandaries. While…
Trussonomics is slowly winning the argument
It was self-indulgent, whinging. Dull in places while completely batty in others. All the usual insults will be hurled at…
Georgia Meloni’s first 100 days have proved her critics wrong
Macho Italy’s first woman prime minister Giorgia Meloni has now governed for 100 days and I cannot help but notice…
Coming soon: Liz Truss speaks exclusively to The Spectator
Liz Truss has today chosen to break her three-month long silence since leaving No. 10 at the end of October.…
The conservative war on free speech
The hopeful life and wretched death of Claudia Gavrilovna Popova during a previous age of extremes should speak to us…
Britain’s borders have become a joke
Were anyone still in doubt about the wholesale abuse of our asylum system by would-be economic migrants then the ever-changing…
Why I’m sceptical of the ADHD epidemic
Just a quick plea to those who know me; if you’re going to burst upon me with a revelation, make…
Was Liz Truss denied a ‘realistic chance’ to succeed?
‘I assumed upon entering Downing Street that my mandate would be respected and accepted. How wrong I was.’ This is…
Why the West is reluctant to give Ukraine F-16s
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine almost a year ago, the questions of if, when and how to supply the Ukrainian…
Enough with politicians’ performative crying
We might have finally discovered something that politicians are worse at than budgeting: regulating emotions. What is in the water…
The balloon is a Chinese middle finger to the US
Military fighter jets have just shot down the Chinese Communist Party’s gigantic spy balloon that had been hovering about 60,000…
China won’t have gained much from its spy balloon
If you didn’t know any better, you might have thought China was preparing to unleash a large-scale invasion on the…
Britain’s remarkable fight to end the slave trade
On 20 June 1897 around 2,000 people paraded outside the colonial Government house in the Seychelles. Like many throughout the…
Is Germany the West’s weakest link?
At the height of the Cold War, it was Britain that appeared to be infested with Russian spies and moles.…
The case for staying calm about the Chinese balloon
If you didn’t know any better, you might think China was preparing to unleash a large-scale invasion on the continental…
Is the world ready for a Harry and Meghan rom com?
Those of us unlucky enough to have suffered through the six interminable hours of the Netflix Harry and Meghan series…
Putin will stick to his world war two narrative – it’s all he’s got left
‘It’s unbelievable but true,’ Vladmir Putin said on the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the battle of Stalingrad. ‘We…
Playgrounds are no place for Pride parades
Parents standing at the school gate have all kinds of hopes and expectations. They want their children to be happy,…
Welsh rugby is on the brink of collapse
Rugby is a gladiatorial game – as Wales’s Six Nations match today against Ireland will surely prove. But even the greatest…
