Clive James, sex and revolution
One year ago, on November 24, 2019, the great man of letters, comedian, and raconteur, Clive James, died. I won’t even pretend to be impartial. Ever since I was fourteen,…
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…
Mourning the non-existent transexual murder epidemic
Imagine a funeral where mourners stand grieving around an empty coffin. Those gathered for the service are inconsolable. That there…
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…
Those small-l liberals and their ABC
In his recent appearance on Insiders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vehemently declared that: The Guardian is an avowedly, small-l liberal,…
The Sword of Damocles hangs over the heads of some SAS troopers
Central to the Special Air Service badge is a dagger, surmounted by wings. It was inspired by SAS founder Colonel…
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…
Where is Australia’s conservative intellectual movement?
“There are right-wing commentators aplenty on the ‘op-ed’ pages of the newspapers and in journals of opinion, but they are…
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?’…
Just how voluntary will any coronavirus vaccine be, given the ethical concerns?
Over the last couple of weeks there have been several developments with regard to a potential coronavirus vaccine. On 16…
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,…
Don’t our special forces need a fierce warrior culture, General Campbell?
I do not know of anyone currently in the armed forces or anyone who has done a tour of duty in Afghanistan,…
What’s woke this weekend?
Hallelujah brothers, sisters and — of course — the gender non-conforming! Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies…
How coronavirus has made our democracy sick
Panic by our governments has squandered Australia’s good fortune of being so lightly touched by Covid-19 (and natural isolation). Panic…
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…
