US politics
Donald Trump’s leadership has become a colossal wreck
‘I’m going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!’ So…
What the British right can learn from the midterms
We keep being told that Michigan is the key battleground in the midterms, so where better to begin a rip…
For the first time ever, I voted Republican
Everyone is obsessing about the ‘blue tsunami’. But there is remarkably little about this election that matters. The House and…
Donald Trump will never be a lame duck
Of all the rotten clichés in American political discourse, ‘lame duck presidency’ is arguably the worst. It ought to be…
Donald Trump is no friend to conservatives
Perhaps P.J. O’Rourke put it best. When explaining, in 2016, why a self-declared ‘Republican Party Reptile’ was voting for Hillary…
Has Trump changed sides?
Has Donald Trump effectively changed sides in the Ukraine war? Over just a few tumultuous days, Trump’s already rocky relations…
The Islamification of Texas
As the UK’s contribution to worldwide carbon emissions is less than 1 per cent and doesn’t affect global temperatures a…
Britain is entering its Rococo period
There were many reasons why John Ruskin hated Rococo. The overly decorated style was a bête noire for the great…
Baby Gabriel-Rumi is the latest victim of the global surrogacy business
On Tuesday, a court in Dallas, Texas will convene to decide the fate of a small baby called Gabriel or…
Why won’t the UK curtail the Muslim Brotherhood?
What should the British government do about the Muslim Brotherhood? This question has confounded policy-makers for decades and was brought…
The radical left-wing takeover of the Democrats is nearly complete
Tuesday 4 August could prove to be a turning point in American political history. If Democratic primary voters in Michigan…
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 full-throated endorsement of the Pelosi Center
Former speaker of the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi, who will retire from Congress this year is lending her name and her leadership to the University…
The Spectator’s role in the birth of America
The Spectator was there at the founding of America. George Washington had six copies of the original 18th-century Spectator at…
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…
The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid
These are good times to be a scholar of the classical world. Last summer, Donald Trump issued an order that…
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…
Let’s ditch the idea of the ‘black vote’
I long took for granted that US opinion polls break down respondents into white people, black people and Hispanics. But…
The inverted imperialism of the royal visit
It’s hard not to feel sorry for Christian Turner, the UK’s new ambassador in Washington. He’s only been in post…
When will we admit that the special relationship does not exist?
It was to King Charles’s great credit that he refused to fall for the Trump power handshake thing and instead…
My night under fire at the White House correspondents’ dinner
Last Saturday evening, the American media class descended for its annual jamboree of back-slapping at the Washington Hilton. Protestors outside…
What do you do with a captured soldier?
What do you do with a captured soldier? In 255 BC, fighting the Carthaginians, the Roman consul and general Marcus…
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left’: Steve Hilton on why he’s running to be California governor
‘I don’t want this state that I love to become the country I left,’ Steve Hilton tells the lunch meeting…
Can the special relationship survive Trump?
Since this calamitous Iran war began, there’s been endless talk in Britain about our ‘special relationship’ (often capitalised) with the…
‘We don’t know what’s going on or why we’re doing this’: how Trump’s Iran gamble backfired
‘Donald Trump is a complicated person with simple ideas,’ said Kellyanne Conway, the former White House senior counsellor. ‘Way too…
