Is there such a thing as ‘after Trump’?
What would happen to the Republicans after Donald Trump? That has been one of the pundits’ favorite themes in the…
Will our vaccines stop the Indian variant?
As we have often found with Covid-19, no sooner does a path seem to emerge out of the woods than…
Inflation fears grow
Two months ago The Spectator reported on what was keeping Rishi Sunak awake at night ahead of the Budget: an inflation…
Why the EU keeps losing against big tech
They shift revenues around. They create endless shadowy shell companies. And they undermine the social model by dodging taxes. To…
Americans baffled by monarch’s role in Queen’s Speech
Her Majesty the Queen might have thought any concerns about the State Opening of Parliament were behind her on Tuesday,…
No, the government can’t sprinkle sherbet on everything
I love the federal budget. And I’m unapologetic about it. But there is one part of budget week that annoys me…
Why universities are bad for the arts
Members of the arts establishment have spent the past week outraged, following news that for the upcoming academic year funding…
Why stamp duty should be lowered for good
Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty holiday has been credited with reviving the property market and blamed for stoking house price inflation,…
Adam Bandt’s drink problem
Is this why is Adam Bandt in parliament? Because he failed as a sommelier? One might think so from his…
The Coalition has surrendered its key point of political differentiation – debt and deficit
There were a heap of euphoric headlines in response to the federal budget. And what’s not to like in a…
The World Health Organisation had one job…
A review of the initial response to the Wuhan virus by an independent panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime…
The age of entitlement is back
I want to share with you the two best pieces of analysis about the 2021-22 federal budget delivered last night…
Canada creeps towards totalitarianism
Canadians pride themselves on their ultra-progressive reputation. In contrast to the gun-loving, war-mongering, big government-hating, get-off-my-lawn-you-commie reputation of Americans, Canadians…
Tories unveil anti-woke manifesto
TheQueen’s Speech yesterday may have seen the government’s fairly dry visionfor modern Britain but a group of Conservative backbench MPs…
How even Xi Jinping gets something this budget
In all the lists of budget winners and losers, one name has been missing: Xi Jinping. Yet China’s President for…
Studying history isn’t what it used to be
Is history in danger of becoming a thing of the past on campus? In recent weeks, Aston in Birmingham announced a consultation on…
The UK’s very American political realignment
The speed and scale with which voters, mainly but not exclusively in the north of England, have switched their allegiance…
Keir Starmer and the ‘Pasokification’ of Labour
As the Greek debt crisis took hold in the wake of the financial crash, there was one big political casualty.…
France needs Britain more than ever
‘What is grave about this situation, Messieurs, is that it is not serious’, was how General de Gaulle addressed his…
What’s going on in our universities? Don’t ask
If you’re lucky enough not to receive the daily briefing from The Conversation website, that showcase for the creme of…
Battlelines
There can be little doubt that last night’s budget sets the stage for an election before the end of the…
Do you have Bruenig Derangement Syndrome?
Oh, mother! What’s the most subversive argument a woman can make in the topsy-turvy la-la land that is America in…
Will Rishi Sunak fund Boris’s skills promises to the red wall?
Queen’s Speech day is one of the set-pieces when the government gets to decide that morning’s headlines. Barring disaster, the…
Boring Barnier won’t be the next French president
Let me go out on a limb here and predict that Michel Barnier, who is trying to rekindle his modest…
Were fears of a third wave overblown?
So, the third wave is officially no more. New modelling by SPI-M, the government’s committee on modelling for pandemics, has,…
