West
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…
The China challenge has no precedent
The US has never been more worried by the rise of China than it is today. In my Times column…
How China is stoking racial tensions in the West
Footage of a brutal late March attack on a 65-year-old Asian American woman in Manhattan drew widespread outrage on social…
How Putin outwitted the West
His cynical statecraft in Syria has run rings around Britain and America
Low life
The pub was disappointingly empty, so I took my first pint of the evening upstairs, where some sort of New…
Where have all the leaders gone?
No one wants to pay the price of speaking for the free world
Heavy mob
Why slimming clubs don’t deserve public money
Big state, big mistake
The West must wake up and reform, or face decline
Patriot games
Possibly because his oratory is no match for his much-displayed pectoral muscles, the speeches of Vladimir Putin are seldom reported…
Let them eat carbon credits
How green policies hit the poorest hardest
The Spectator’s notes
Everyone can see that the West has no idea what to do about Russian power in the Ukraine. Britain, in…
Leave Ukraine to the Russians
‘You can’t always get what you want,’ chorused Mick Jagger, ‘but if you try some time/You just might find/You get…















