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Even the WHO has turned on China’s zero-Covid strategy
Covid infections are finally falling in Shanghai. The city reported just over 2,000 cases on Tuesday, down from over 27,000…
Is Britney Spears OK?
In a society obsessed with labels, we are surrounded by amateur psychologists at every turn. Low attention span? ADHD! Social…
Meghan Markle’s presidential run appears inevitable
Meghan Markle has starred in a Netflix show and married into the Royal Family, but has she got her eyes…
Germany’s wilful ignorance is hurting Ukraine
Berlin, Germany Germans have a complex relationship with their Erinnerungskultur, or ‘culture of memory’. Whenever the word appears, it almost invariably…
Why the new Anglo-Swedish pact matters
Boris Johnson will arrive in Stockholm tomorrow to sign a defence agreement with Sweden to tide the country over until it…
Boris is gearing up for a new round of the Brexit wars
As prime minister, Boris Johnson does not follow the normal rules. To put it mildly. And this year’s Queen’s Speech,…
Why I’m not falling for Prince Harry’s latest eco-venture
Just when you thought Prince Harry’s post-royal career couldn’t get any more absurd, he manages to make it so. His…
The abortion insurrection
Pro-abortion activists are proving themselves a greater threat to the country than a man smiling and carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s…
Is Channel 4’s sex obsession really a ‘public service’?
Is Channel 4 a public service broadcaster that should be saved from privatisation? Today’s Queen’s Speech, which lays the groundwork…
Why progressives can’t tolerate Christians
For decades, Christians have talked about feeling persecuted in advanced secular and liberal democracies. They’ve often sounded a bit hysterical.…
This isn’t the beginning of the Charles Regency
One of the cruellest and most accurate remarks made about Prince Charles is that he is less king-in-waiting and more…
What the UK can learn from the demise of British Rail
British Railways lives again. Well sort of. The Queen’s Speech is expected to contain plans for a Transport Bill, the…
What’s so ‘progressive’ about abortion?
From the UK Spectator this week comes a pair of essays by Douglas Murray and Melanie McDonagh praising the American abortion…
Putin’s cult of war
This idolisation of the Soviet military is Russia’s modern tragedy. Not least because it is crucial to Putin’s way of…
Read: Vladimir Putin’s victory day speech in full
The following is The Spectator’s translation of Putin’s speech for victory day 2022. Most respected citizens of Russia, dear veterans,…
Crypto is dead
When Britain voted for Brexit, Macron boasted that Paris would eat the City of London’s lunch. It didn’t quite work…
How Ukraine rained on Putin’s parade
The Russians know how to put on a parade, and Victory Day is the showiest of the shows. It may…
The real mistake of Roe v. Wade
The jurist, Ronald Dworkin, once described the vehemence of the dispute over abortion as ‘America’s new version of the terrible…
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an…
How Duterte Harry’s legacy of terror lives on in the Philippines
Something momentous is building in the Philippines. Thirty-six years after the kleptocratic despot, Ferdinand Marcos, fled into exile with his…
China’s zero-Covid horror show is inspiring Taiwan to open up
Taipei Nowhere is watching the zero-Covid horror show unfolding in China more closely than Taiwan, where it is encouraging the…
The abortion debate turns brutal
Not too long ago, pro-choice activists wished for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Their argument was that no…
Liberalism gave us this hard new right
The future of conservatism will look like Friedrich Nietzsche meets Beavis and Butt-Head if things continue the way they have been going. As…
Harry and Meghan’s balcony ban is a mistake
Once again, a moment that should be a unifying and celebratory for the Windsors has attracted division and discord. It…
Is Putin preparing for total war on 9 May?
Ahead of Russia’s annual Victory Day celebration on 9 May – which marks the date the Soviet Union defeated Nazi…
