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Trump 2.0 is more than a ‘vibe shift’
People don’t like to use the term ‘vibe shift’, but I suspect it will turn out to be rather more…
I listened to a solid week of Woman’s Hour…
I was a weird kid, and though I harboured the usual innocent girlish ambitions of being a drug fiend and…
Serious and gripping – though Trump disagrees: The Apprentice reviewed
The Apprentice is a dramatised biopic of Donald Trump, covering his early business years. He has called the film ‘FAKE…
Slating Nato won’t help Donald Trump
Reacting to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, earlier this week, Donald Trump reiterated his long-standing ambition to bring Russia’s…
What doesn’t kill Trump makes him stronger
As if there hadn’t been enough drama in America in 2024, Donald Trump has survived another assassination attempt. The attempted…
Is America fit to lead the West?
Foreign policy rarely plays a significant role in a US presidential election. Domestic issues, the economy, money in the pocket,…
Will Michelle Obama run? The runners and riders to replace Joe Biden
After a lamentable performance in Thursday’s debate, much of the Democrat press corps is demanding that Joe Biden step aside.…
After last night, nobody believes in Joe Biden
‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he…
‘That was painful’: CNN mourns Biden implosion
Oh dear. The Democrats are reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of the election (the…
What will Americans make of Trump’s guilty verdict?
The indictment and trial on a thin charge, the gagging of a presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign,…
How did the internet become so horrific?
Plus: the joy of hearing lawyers argue
Sister act
The Mitfords is a superb one-woman show by Emma Wilkinson Wright who focuses her attention on Unity, Diana and Jessica.…
Ron DeSantis is the Republican party’s best hope
Florida governor Ron DeSantis is shaping up as the GOP’s best hope for next year’s US presidential election. Large parts…
Ruthless efficiency
George Saunders’s handbook published last year, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, gave masterclasses on seven short stories…
January 6 has turned Trump fans into NeverTrumpers
The 6 January hearings are a bit of a kangaroo court, since no one is trying to poke holes in…
Linguistic games
David Shields is an American author who has decided to collate many of the questions he’s been asked in interviews…
Why are progressives scared of Elon Musk?
Billionaire edgelord Elon Musk has just given progressives another reason to dread his ongoing attempt to buy Twitter. The founder…
Trumpian lullaby
Trump is said to be a gift for bad satirists and a problem for good ones. He dominates Mike Bartlett’s…
Why the silence over Biden’s links with Ukraine?
‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…
Putin must look at the West and laugh
Whatever the West’s response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, the crisis demonstrates the limitations of western politics and policy…
Read: Tucker Carlson on Ukraine, ethno-nationalism and M&Ms
This week, Tucker Carlson spoke to Freddy Gray on the latest episode of Spectator TV. You can watch their conversation…
Will Trump’s pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?
Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…
New York’s vaccine passport scheme could have a nasty side effect
The latest French export to the United States is a requirement that people show proof of vaccination to visit indoor bars,…
Biden must learn from Trump’s mistakes on North Korea
Anniversaries are usually celebratory occasions, but not this one. It’s now been two years since the infamous Hanoi summit between Donald…
Welcome to Trump’s second term
President Biden’s emphatic assertion that ‘America is back’ at the Munich Security Conference last month was met with a lukewarm…
