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Putin’s war is tearing Russian families apart
Renata is a young paediatrician from St Petersburg who, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, keeps crying at work. Her colleagues…
In defence of VAR
There isn’t much that unites the fractious, dysfunctional football family. But in the UK, at least, there is something most…
Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars
It was a relatively cool 85 degrees in Houston on the August evening thirty years ago when Republicans gathered at the…
Is the Trump 2024 team taking shape?
Cockburn and his spies have been busy collecting gossip for you all week. James Corden’s bad attitude So apparently before…
Sunak should acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
When Liz Truss’s premiership came to an abrupt end, it appeared to spell doom for a historic policy shift raised…
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover isn’t so bad
It’s finally happened. After months of legal wrangling, Twitter has fallen. All hail King Elon; the ‘bird is freed’. The…
Why we should stop worrying and learn to love AI
Whether on British television news panels or late-night TV in America, it is hard to get away from talk about…
Farage gets his fortune (and freedom)
He’s had his money worries in the past, but life seems to be pretty sweet for Nigel Farage right now.…
Eighty years later, World War II is fading from historical memory
With worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and tension over Taiwan, it’s easy for Americans to forget that we…
Why Sunak backtracked over fines for missed GP appointments
Not surprisingly, Rishi Sunak has dropped plans to fine NHS patients £10 for missed appointments. It was one of the…
Are Sunak and Hunt planning a windfall tax grab?
When Rishi Sunak entered No. 10 on Tuesday, he paid lip service to the aims of his predecessor. Liz Truss…
Why shouldn’t Macron meet Meloni?
One in four Italians who voted at last month’s election backed Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Brothers of Italy party – that is 7,302,517…
Will Putin use Belarus to attack Ukraine?
For the past month, Russian soldiers have been gathering in Belarus. Thousands of conscripts are assembling. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia’s…
Now is the time for a strong social conservatism
President Biden’s recent interview with transexual TikToker Dylan Mulvaney is a clarifying event for anyone who pays attention to America’s…
Democrats are losing because liberalism has become cruel
Welp, so much for the blue wave. That towering electoral tsunami, which was to deluge the midterm races in a…
The radical alternative to a hospital birth
Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event…
The Tory wars haven’t gone away
Rishi Sunak told the Tories to ‘unite or die’ as he took office this week. Some of his party colleagues…
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ is making the Royals nervous
The title of Prince Harry’s long-awaited memoir will be enough to make the royal family nervous. Spare, which was originally…
Might Sunak regret his Budget delay?
Given the swift defenestration of his predecessor after her mini-Budget panicked the markets, it is not surprising that Rishi Sunak…
Trevor Noah’s bizarre Sunak skit backfires
Fire up the engine, the clickbait machine has gone into overdrive. Mr S doesn’t spend much of his time watching…
Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons against the West in his war on…
A healthy Fetterman would have lost the debate too
Last night’s debate between Pennsylvania US Senate candidates Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman, was, as The Spectator’s own…
Is Britain heading into an inflation spiral?
Inflation, asserted Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs, makes us all poorer. That is not entirely true – people relying…
How long before Rishi fatigue sets in?
The Prime Minister has an Asian background. You wouldn’t know that if you listened to the Tories at PMQs because…
The comfort of hating Britain
I occasionally get sent articles from the ‘London Correspondent of the Papua New Guinea Courier’ – less often, now that…
