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Liz Truss doesn’t frighten Labour
Labour will attack the new prime minister from the left and the right. From Liz Truss’ exposed left flank, Labour…
Will Liz Truss kill levelling up?
Levelling up is probably not even in the top tier of Liz Truss’s intray for this week, given the pressure…
How Liz Truss can solve the energy crisis
It will be expensive. It will last far longer than anyone expects. And it will distort the market even more…
Is Liz Truss a Tory Jeremy Corbyn?
Many years ago, when the earth was young and leaving the European Union was a position espoused only by those…
Putin’s energy war has changed Germany’s relations with Russia for good
After months of speculation and handwringing, it has finally happened: Germany and the rest of Europe are now receiving no…
Liz Truss will come to regret her ‘bonfire’ of workers’ rights
Liz Truss is right about sex and gender. But if she is to get the country through the next winter…
The EU is hoping to catch Liz Truss on the backfoot over Brexit
A vital part of gamesmanship, according to the British author Stephen Potter, is to disconcert your opponent before they have joined…
The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health
“Global health” has emerged in the last decade or so as one of the growth areas in the medical and…
Is it time to defund the humanities?
Much of the cost of running our universities and other centres of higher education is borne by government, meaning the…
Only an ‘un-conservative’ measure can solve the energy crisis
The UK economy has so far held up reasonably well in the face of the rise in energy prices. But…
Beer and loathing: Why Russians loved and hated Gorbachev
A paradox about Mikhail Gorbachev for my generation of Russians – I was seven years old when he became general…
Why Poland wants Germany to pay war reparations
Poland commemorated the 83rd anniversary of its invasion by Nazi Germany this week. To mark the occasion the leader of…
Will Liz Truss’s Tory party practice what it preaches?
The Tory party is very good at pointing out — and profiting from — how the Labour party often values…
Will Chad become Africa’s next warzone?
If you went to Doha this summer, you may have seen some militiamen from Chad. Perhaps at breakfast. For the…
Vaccines disguised the errors of our lockdown policy
Liz Truss’s statement that she would never authorise another lockdown and The Spectator’s interview with Rishi Sunak have triggered a…
The case for energy nationalisation
We are living through an energy crisis unlike anything since the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. The average household…
The problem with parliament’s partygate inquiry
Boris Johnson has recently employed the services of the lawyer Lord Pannick, who has given his legal opinion on a…
Why it’s still worth asking questions on lockdown
Rishi Sunak’s interview in last week’s magazine has inspired a lot of comment. Two this week: Lee Cain, ex-No. 10…
Macron is blaming Putin for his own net zero folly
France is at war again, or as good as, according to Emmanuel Manuel’s recent rhetoric. This time the enemy is…
Putin’s closure of Nord Stream 1 has left Britain exposed
Few will be minded to believe Russia’s explanation for cutting off Nord Stream 1 pipeline – that it is a…
Remembering Gorbachev
In early January 1997, I met my boyhood hero. It was in the grounds of his wintry dacha outside Moscow.…
Ukraine’s Kherson offensive may have already been a success
The Ukrainian armed forces launched a long–awaited offensive on Kherson this week. However, the counter-offensive was signalled for so long…
Is Liz Truss the British Trump?
Readers must understand how the jargon of political chicanery has corrupted journalism if they are to make sense of the…
Why the Baltics fear Russia
In the historic heart of Riga, Latvia’s lively capital, there is a building that reveals why the Baltic States remain…
Biden declares war on half the country
Joe Biden’s speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday was one of the most remarkable in living memory. By “remarkable,” I…
