Ukraine
The US Senate is playing into Putin’s hands
The news this week that Republicans in the US Senate had voted together to block a supplemental funding bill that…
Is this where world war three starts?
Daugavpils You can tell quite a bit about a place by the number of national flags on display.…
Europe needs to step up on Ukraine
Vasyl, a burly, tattooed infantry commander who lost a leg to a Russian mine on the eastern front, sits swinging…
Ukraine’s fight has been eclipsed by the ‘Other War’
The first indication that this was a literary festival like no other came with the request to provide ‘proof of…
Immaterial world
VR ‘immersion’ is everywhere in London this autumn, but is it of any value? Stuart Jeffries takes the plunge
Ballots and ballistics
Should Ukraine hold a general election next year?
The Spectator’s Notes
In 2014, Rolf Harris was convicted of sexual offences against girls. I wrote in this space that this would have…
Barometer
Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…
Letters
Whose victory? Sir: Politicians are often accused of engaging in doublespeak, and I fear in the case of Boris Johnson’s…
High life
Gstaad The Speccie arrived just in time for me to read about the rudeness of one Lyndon Johnson, then vice-president,…
Kamikaze drones are the future of warfare
The West is struggling to confront the modern military technologies of Russia, Iran and China. A year and a half…
America first
The US will decide Ukraine’s fate
Ukraine’s real killing fields
An investigation into the war’s first aid crisis
The Spectator’s Notes
We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…
Swarm troopers
Inside Ukraine’s drone army
High life
Now that Wimbledon is over, a few thoughts about youthful brains showing traces of horse tranquillisers, angel dust and cannabis,…
‘A figure that makes the country cry out’
Will mounting casualties change the debate in Ukraine?
Russia’s moral collapse
It’s not just Putin’s war, says Jade McGlynn. The mass of Telegram data shows how much the nation as a whole supports the offensive
