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Why Sunak would find it tough to lose Braverman
The safest place for a minister in a crisis is meant to be the despatch box. The thinking is that…
Gove gets the gang back together
It’s not just Suella Braverman and Dominic Raab who have got their old jobs back. Following the Truss interregnum, normal…
Will the Tories copy Le Pen?
In the three years since its landslide victory in the 2019 election, the Conservative party has shed nearly seven million…
Why journalists shouldn’t be on TikTok
Americans: watch your backs. Last week, Forbes released a bombshell report that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, the popular…
Russia’s ‘hunger plan’ is back
Until this week, the prospect of globalfamine had disappeared from the headlines, but earlier in Russia’s waragainst Ukraine, a sinister…
Don’t let paranoid progressives ruin Halloween
There was a time in recent memory (i.e., my childhood) when on October 31, kids dressed up in whatever costumes…
Does Elon Musk have the stomach for this fight?
Appropriately for Twitter, the arrival of Elon Musk has been regarded by some as the coming of the antichrist and…
Eurozone inflation hits record 10.7%
Britain’s economic problems can, of course, be laid at the door of Brexit. We know this because it was asserted…
The Channel migrant crisis is spiralling out of control
When did the scale of illegal immigration into the UK via Channel dinghies become a first order political issue for…
Lula faces an uphill battle in Brazil
The Brazilian presidential election yesterday was billed as one of the most consequential in decades – not just for the…
Politicians’ backstabbing family members are the worst
Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family. I recall Michael Corleone’s warning to Fredo from The Godfather every…
Hate and hoaxes at Twitter headquarters as Musk takes over
“The bird is freed,” tweeted Elon Musk last Thursday, when he acquired full ownership of Twitter. The day before, he…
Bolsonaro falls as South America tilts toward socialism
After a bruising campaign, the leftist former president of Brazil Lula Ignacio Da Silva appears to have won back control…
It’s not too late for footballers to boycott Qatar’s World Cup
If you go to Fifa’s website, you’ll find all sorts of things to make your heart sing and tears spring…
Who’s afraid of ideology?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is widely considered less dangerous than Liz Truss because he is less ideological. For many journalists,…
Did lockdown contribute to Seoul’s Halloween tragedy?
At least 151 people were crushed or trampled to death in a narrow alley in the South Korean capital Seoul…
Another set of Northern Irish elections won’t solve anything
Northern Ireland is set for another election. The failure to reboot the province’s power-sharing Executive by the deadline last Friday…
A.N. Wilson and the ‘aesthetic’ relationship to religion
My first Spectator article, 21 years ago, was a rebuke to the religious attitude of certain public intellectuals whom I…
Putin’s war has exacted a terrible toll on Ukraine
Putin badly miscalculated. The Russian army terribly underperformed. Kyiv has shown unexpected resilience in the face of what experts thought…
Why Biden is finished with Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister had some cheeky words for the Biden administration this week: don’t blame us for manipulating the…
On the ground with Obama, Warnock and Abrams in Georgia
College Park, Georgia Former president Barack Obama came down to Georgia stump for Senator Raphael Warnock and gubernatorial candidate Stacey…
Truss in Russian phone-hacking scare
Oh dear. Liz Truss probably didn’t think her week could get any worse, five days after resigning the premiership and…
Rishi raids ITV (again)
The revolving door in No/ 10 seems to turn even faster these days, given the news that Downing Street will…
What’s wrong with being an apocalypse denier?
This week, on BBC radio, I made a confession: I am a denier. Not a climate-change denier – an apocalypse…
It’s time to stop turning the clocks back
British households could save £400 a year if we left the clocks alone this weekend instead of putting them back…
