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Boris Johnson’s Blairism is bamboozling Labour
Is Boris Johnson the Blairite who may not speak his name? All the PM’s talk of levelling up rather than levelling down?…
The five stages of Brexit grief
It’s been more than three years since the Brexit referendum, and we’re only a day away from actually leaving the…
The Michelin Guide’s tiresome sustainability award
The Michelin Red Guide is a marketing device to sell tyres by selling pastries. The guide was invented in 1900…
The Democrats’ dirty secret? They don’t want witnesses
The Senate leaders have stated their positions clearly and constantly. Chuck Schumer, who leads the Democratic minority, is demanding that…
Americans have impeached impeachment
Podcaster Andrew Espitallier, who hosts a channel called The Right Latino with his friend Alex, took to the streets of…
We should be wary of our spooks’ complacency about Huawei
I might be feeling more confident about the government’s decision to give Huawei a limited role in building Britain’s 5G…
Labour official election report: result nothing to do with Corbyn
There’s nothing like a period of reflection after a historic election defeat. It offers those involved a chance to look…
Boris risks backbench rebellion if he doesn’t get Huawei right
Tory MPs are not happy with the Huawei decision. Normally loyal MPs are expressing their bafflement at the announcement. As…
Why we’ll regret the Huawei gamble
It is apparently fine for China to ban western technology from its telecommunications network but quite unacceptable for us to…
The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei
With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…
Why John Bolton won’t win his war on Trump
The first sentence of the New York Times report on John Bolton’s tell-all memoir about his time in the Trump…
The dangers of letting Huawei build our 5G network
This afternoon Boris Johnson finally approved the use of equipment made by Huawei in building parts of Britain’s 5G network.…
Bloomberg is the only Democrat who can take on Trump
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the whirligig of time brings in… more whirligigs. Four years ago, few people thought that Donald Trump…
The Bolton blindside
What’s wrong with trying to sell books? President Trump and his janissaries are trying to depict Bolton as a disgruntled…
The deranged rage against the Brexit 50p coin
Remoaners are having the mother of all meltdowns. What’s rankled them this time? The Brexit 50p, of course. Yes, they’re…
What it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors
This is a short piece on Holocaust Memorial Day, and what it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Many,…
The strange new liberal attraction to the feds
In a political era defined by abnormalities, few developments are as bizarre as the newfound liberal admiration for federal law…
How Boris Johnson can emulate Margaret Thatcher
An open letter to Boris Johnson: People, even including your opponents, are getting used to the idea that you are…
Laurence Fox and the curdling of rational minds
I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
Donald Trump, president of peace
This article is in The Spectator’s February 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. Groupthink is the last thing a country needs when debating…
Do alarmists know the difference between weather and climate?
Until recently, those expressing scepticism about climate-change catastrophe have been hauled over the coals (or the renewables equivalent) for not…
How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All…
Why aren’t leftists happy Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie?
As a twenty-something man who spends excessive amounts of time on the internet I have of course watched countless hours…
There’s no need to panic about coronavirus
In contrast to prophets of doom, who get invited to Davos, asked to address the UN and are able to…
The trans-sceptic academic who now needs bodyguards for protection
‘You can’t change sex – biologically, that is impossible.’ That, by most people’s standards, is a simple observable truth. But…
