Donald Trump
What Farage can learn from the anti-Trump playbook
In January this year Dominic Cummings – once of this parish – warned The Spectator’s editor and assistant editor that…
The Smithsonian hates America
In the extensive coverage of this year’s July 4 celebrations in Washington, DC, it was often mentioned that 850,000 fireworks…
How Trump inadvertently boosted Europe’s defense industry
With all the Hollywood drama and heart-pounding music of a Mission: Impossible trailer, NATO screened a short promotional film at…
Trump brings the thunder for America’s 250th birthday
Who ever let a spot of rain get in the way of a good time? Donald Trump’s July 4 festivities…
I can’t remember when I was last so disgusted with Trump
You’d think when your country goes to war you’d want it to prevail, but these are topsy-turvy times. Thus the…
A golden age… for Trump
“You can do two things,” Donald Trump told reporters as he stood beside the new retrofitted Air Force One on…
Inside Trump’s brazen financial disclosures
Donald Trump has exposed a weak link in American democracy. It is dependent, as the Founders would put it, on its…
The Supreme Court is not in Trump’s thrall
The latest Supreme Court term, which ended on Tuesday, surely must have been a deep disappointment for those who argue…
Trump’s ‘greatest’ rally ever
Freedom 250’s “Great American State Fair” opened on the National Mall yesterday – just not with a concert, as initially…
Trump has been outplayed by Iran
The Founding Fathers may have modelled America on Ancient Rome, but they would have found the ersatz gladiatorial spectacle Donald…
Will Vance regret being the face of the Iran deal?
After a week of international agonizing, it looks as if the first round of the latest peace talks between America…
Only Iran is happy with Trump’s peace deal
President Trump might have thought that negotiating an interim diplomatic understanding with Iran was going to be the hard part.…
Might England just do it in the World Cup?
The World Cup has never been just a football tournament. Even if we don’t realise it at the time, it…
Are hostilities in Iran really about to cease?
Donald Trump is trying to wriggle out of his self imposed Strait-jacket. After a renewed round of bombing Iran and…
UFC Freedom 250 is straight from the ‘bread-and-circuses’ playbook
What can we expect from this weekend’s UFC event on the White House lawn? There is a more than good…
Trump’s ballroom drone port is no joke
When Donald Trump unveiled plans for a counter-drone installation on the roof of the new White House ballroom, critics called…
Russia won’t give up Armenia without a fight
How do you fight an election if you’re under house arrest? If you’re the Russian-Armenian businessman Samvel Karapetyan, once the…
Cuba is next on Trump’s hit list
It’s hot in Havana. The summer’s electrical storms have arrived, lighting up the sky, while down on the ground we’ve…
How Iran turned Trump’s propaganda against him
On 19 November 1941, King George and Queen Elizabeth paid a visit to Woburn Abbey, home of Britain’s covert propaganda…
Portrait of the week: Tony Blair intervenes, Peter Murrell pleads guilty and temperatures hit a May high
Home Sir Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, said in a 5,700-word essay: ‘The Labour party is playing with…
Are Trump and Netanyahu heading for a showdown?
Depending on which day it is, the ongoing peace talks between the United States and Iran are either a few…
Why are Trump’s would-be assassins so forgettable?
Another weekend, another failed and frankly pathetic attempt to kill the President of the United States. On February 22, a…
Portrait of the week: Streeting resigns, HS2 stalls and ebola spreads to Uganda
Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, found his position challenged after Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary. At the…
Trump’s NATO troop reduction isn’t Europe’s biggest problem
Before Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, there were many commentators who sought to sanitize the President.…
Why Trump is wobbling on restarting the Iran war
Donald Trump was for the Iran war before he was against it. His latest post on social media about the conflict indicated that…
