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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…
Are Trump’s lawyers big enough to back their claims up?
Before the showdown in old Western movies, one character would issue a barbed challenge and his rival would confidently reply,…
Do some people have hidden immunity against Covid?
Remember ‘immunity passports’? Back in April they were floated as a possible means by which we could all get back…
Brexit could help Boris’s green revolution come to life
Boris Johnson announced his new ten-point plan for Britain’s transition to a net-zero carbon emissions economy this week. It is…
Why Boris, not Rishi, will lead the Tories into the next election
Some Tory MPs are hoping that Dominic Cummings’ departure from Downing Street will bring with it a vital lift to…
What to expect from a Biden-Harris foreign policy
It’s of course premature to even speculate as to how the new administration will fashion a foreign policy. But enough…
Finally America is realizing that Andrew Cuomo is a putz
In a sane world, Andrew Cuomo would be America’s least popular politician, a welcome target for a primary campaign or…
There is evidence, actually
Washington DC Call me crazy for taking the man with hair dye dripping down his cheeks seriously, but I think…
The pathetic censorship of ‘Fairytale of New York’
There’s a surefire way to tell Christmas has arrived. Forget the Oxford Street lights. Forget the sudden appearance of stacks…
Red Wall voters won’t be impressed by Boris’s green agenda
The Red Wall, Blue Collar Conservative, Old Labour, Workington Man – or whatever name you wish to attach to this…
Student loan forgiveness is a giveaway to the rich
Joe Biden said on Monday that Congress should ‘immediately’ take action to forgive student loan debt through its next COVID…
Landmark Danish study shows face masks have no significant effect
Do face masks work? Earlier this year, the UK government decided that masks could play a significant role in stopping…
Are Republicans really favored in Georgia?
Control of the Senate is going to come down to two January 5 runoffs in Georgia. Sen. David Perdue came…
Why academics hold Thatcher and Trump in such contempt
‘Has that orange baboon gone yet?’ asked a senior professor in the teacher’s room at my university yesterday. The remark…
