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Could Saudia Arabia and Pakistan soon recognise Israel?
Mohammed bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting – albeit deniedby Riyadh – shows it is surely only a matter of time before…
Why Boris should go for no deal
Boris Johnson has negotiated his way into a corner. With the naïve view that the EU would eventually buckle and…
Rise of the swamp creatures
It started a few weeks before Election Day. With the polling data almost universally showing that Joe Biden would win…
The kids are not on the right
There are still questions hanging over the 2020 election. Not the ones Rudy Giuliani and his team are posing about…
Letter from the online trenches
November 7, 2020 To my dear parents, Victory. Uttering the word feels strange after four long years of battle. But…
Republicans should make AOC House Speaker
Republicans are currently on track to end up with 214 seats in the House of Representatives in January. As of…
Biden would be a fool to reverse Trump’s foreign policy wins
‘We’re going to be back in the game,’ our presumptive and somewhat previous new president tells us. ‘It’s not America…
Arab states are fighting back against Turkey’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seems determined to reinvent the secular Muslim country he inherited as a sort of Sunni Iranian ‘Mini-Me’:…
Did Trump just concede?
President Trump said Monday in a tweet that his administration is willing to start the formal transition of power to…
The amazing blandness of Joe Biden’s foreign policy team
What does a Joe Biden presidency mean? We all know the answer. It means that tired but nice-sounding clichés about…
Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?
‘I don’t think that word means what you think it means,’ says the Spaniard Inigo Montoya in the film The…
Criminal gangs are making billions from fake medical supplies during COVID
While it’s great news that Pfizer, BioNTech, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical companies are developing vaccines to prevent people from getting…
The mullah report: is Biden bringing back the Iran Deal?
‘We’re going to be back in the game,’ our presumptive and somewhat previous new president tells us. ‘It’s not America…
The urgent case for voting reform
By now, The Spectator knows better than to say that Donald Trump has been definitively beaten. The President’s final defeat…
Donald Trump is now the Republican party’s kingmaker
As Donald Trump continues to insist that he actually won the 2020 presidential election, speculation has grown about how the…
What if Thatcher won the 1990 leadership challenge?
Thirty years ago today, Margaret Thatcher was in 10 Downing Street. For almost eleven and a half years, it had…
The mystery of Melania Trump
Melania Trump should be a feminist icon. She is determined and self-assured. Despite being one of the most criticized women…
Keir Starmer should purge Labour of the far-left
Sir Keir Starmer was having such a good year. He broke cover early on to attack the government’s handling of…
The Crown’s depiction of Thatcher is grotesque
My favourite The Crown blooper so far was the one recently spotted by a Telegraph reader: ‘As Head of the…
A vicious cycle: the problem with tokenistic bike lanes
There’s an old joke from the nineties: The A1 walks into a bar. The barman says ‘Are you with him?’…
Was what I said on Facebook really ‘hate speech’?
Facebook has been accused of failing to combat extremism and hate-speech among its users. But as I found out this week,…
Boris’s green industrial revolution is doomed to fail
Boris Johnson’s ‘green industrial revolution’, which was announced this week, looks doomed from the outset. From our heating to how we…
Was 2008 the year China triumphed over the West?
Although China’s economy remains smaller than the United States’s in terms of nominal GDP (albeit ahead of the US in…
Reparations can’t right the wrongs of the past
It’s all change at Jesus College, Cambridge. The marble memorial to Tobias Rustat is coming down. His portrait is no longer…
Revenge of the Republicans
The 2020 election has provided fertile ground upon which Republicans can spend the next four years doing to Joe Biden…
