Volodymyr Zelensky
Zelensky’s strategy is national suicide
For Americans who follow the Russian-Ukrainian war, the past few months must look very strange. In the first half of…
Ukraine is losing the war
Vladimir Putin has not changed his war aims a jot since 2022 and remains determined on fighting on. Donald Trump…
Forever war: will Zelensky and Putin be brought to an exhausted peace?
Volodymyr Zelensky stood proudly on the steps of 10 Downing Street this week, flanked by Sir Keir Starmer and the…
No, Zelensky: World War Three hasn’t started
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that World War Three has already started. Speaking to the BBC on the eve of…
Europe has left Ukraine living on borrowed time
Russia started the war on Ukraine, so Russia should pay for the damage it has wrought. Such was Volodymyr Zelensky’s…
European leaders have changed their tune on war
Ten days after Thanksgiving, news watchers were exposed to one of the more culturally incongruous images in recent history: Ukrainian…
Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse
Defeat, political implosion and civil war – those are the jeopardies that Volodymyr Zelensky faces as Ukraine heads into the…
Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does…
Ballots and ballistics
Should Ukraine hold a general election next year?
America first
The US will decide Ukraine’s fate
Swarm troopers
Inside Ukraine’s drone army
Zelensky was right to feel cheated by Nato
Gitanas Nauseda stood outside his palace and checked his watch. The Lithuanian President’s guests – the leaders of the other…
No more Mr Nice Guy
Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the few leaders of modern times whose charisma, determination and sheer cojones can be said,…
Will Nato accept Ukraine?
Shortly after the invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky made an offer to Vladimir Putin. Ukraine would drop its ambition to…
Can Zelensky afford to freeze Ukraine’s gas prices?
This morning, Volodymyr Zelensky signed a moratorium on energy prices – so while gas bills are rising all over Europe,…
The real impeachment scandal
I am so glad that Nancy Pelosi has finally come to her senses and declared — on the floor of…
Ukrainegate is destined to fall flat
In the coming days Donald Trump will become the third American president to be impeached. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker,…
The Ukraine blame game
This article is in The Spectator’s December 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. The unfolding deep-state effort to remove Donald Trump from office…
Adam Schiff, ‘Lt. Col.’ Vindman and the impeachment ratings flop
‘No.’ ‘No.’ ‘No.’ ‘No.’ That pretty much sums up yesterday’s testimony. ‘Did you receive any indication whatsoever, or anything that…
Donald Trump 💓 impeachment
Democrats like to make out that Donald Trump is terrified of the impeachment juggernaut they are driving at his head.…
The Democrats’ bad start to the impeachment hearings
The first day of public impeachment hearings was good for Republicans and mediocre, at best, for Democrats. That’s far short…
Pelosi caved: what the impeachment rules resolution really means
Trick or treat, Mr President? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to deliver the former with the House resolution — passed…
John Bolton, avenger
President Trump may be pulling out of Syria, but it’s bombs away in Washington. John Bolton’s likening Rudy Giuliani to…
Whistleblowers give Trump a taxing time
Oops. Donald Trump has another nettlesome whistleblower on his hands that he’s going to have to try and drown out. …
The age of LOLitics
This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. One thing is now as obvious as a brick…





























