Freddy Gray

Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator. He was formerly literary editor of The American Conservative.

Joe Biden’s long history in Ukraine

21 February 2023 2:08 am

It was only a matter of time before Joe Biden made a ‘surprise’ visit to Kiev. In the year since…

Joe Biden does America First

11 February 2023 9:00 am

‘There have been so many accomplishments under this administration, it can be difficult to list them in a distilled way.’…

Joe Biden’s docudrama

28 January 2023 9:00 am

If Britain’s great flaw is the class system, America’s might be its obsession with classifying official information. There’s a reason…

Sorry, folks, Donald Trump isn’t going away

20 January 2023 9:26 pm

Almost all of us can recite the reasons why Donald Trump’s political career should be over. We hear them again…

Who do Harry and Meghan think they are?

17 January 2023 10:19 pm

It is quite funny that Jeremy Clarkson, having written that silly joke about the Duchess of Sussex being paraded naked…

Is this the beginning of the end for Joe Biden?

13 January 2023 10:09 pm

Has Joe Biden suddenly outlived his usefulness? That is what many conspiracy-theory-inclined Americans are saying as the fuss mounts around…

Did Biden also illegally hoard top-secret documents?

11 January 2023 10:51 pm

Remember the tale of Donald Trump and the ‘illegal hoarding’ of the top-secret documents? It was only last summer. On…

Six more years: how long can Biden go on?

7 January 2023 9:00 am

Can anyone stop Biden from running again in 2024?

My debt to Pope Benedict XVI

31 December 2022 9:01 pm

Back in early 2019, my wife discovered that she was pregnant with our fourth child. A few weeks later, we…

What Meghan Markle’s digital army has in common with trans activists

29 December 2022 12:55 am

If Meghan Markle’s army of digital defenders didn’t exist, we’d have to make them up. Otherwise, the never-ending controversy over…

How long can the Democrats keep Trump in legal limbo?

20 December 2022 11:15 pm

Yesterday, a political committee set up in order to condemn Donald Trump condemned Donald Trump. It would have been truly…

The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk

10 December 2022 9:00 am

The Windsors are warring over their womenfolk

The Twitter Files just got a lot more interesting

7 December 2022 9:37 pm

As I wrote earlier, last week Matt Taibbi, the journalist chosen by Elon Musk to reveal what really happened behind-the-app…

How Twitter suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story

3 December 2022 10:45 pm

For weeks now, Twitter’s new chief Elon Musk has been promising to reveal what really happened behind the scenes at…

Is Kanye West really out to derail Trump? 

3 December 2022 9:00 am

Is Kanye West really out to derail Trump?

Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024?

19 November 2022 4:00 pm

Donald Trump has been running for president for at least a decade. His campaign did not start on June 16,…

Is Donald Trump the Jeb Bush of 2024?

19 November 2022 9:00 am

The world changes but Trump stays the same

Is Nixon the most misunderstood president in history?

13 November 2022 6:30 pm

Has the reputation of any American statesman been more effectively trashed than that of Richard Milhous Nixon? Donald Trump’s, perhaps…

Midterm madness: the only clear winner is paranoia

12 November 2022 9:00 am

America’s only clear election winner is paranoia

Midterms: No red wave, America is still very divided

9 November 2022 5:35 pm

Is it a red wave? A ripple? Or a trickle? Nobody quite knows. However, what looks certain is that the…

How worried are the Democrats about the US midterms?

8 November 2022 1:44 am

‘There are two things that are important in politics,’ said the 19th century senator Mark Hanna. ‘The first is money…

The Tories are addicted to self-destruction

1 November 2022 9:28 pm

Well, that round of party unity was fun, wasn’t it? Rishi Sunak, the pragmatist, ushered in an unfamiliar sense of…

Just how bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?

22 October 2022 1:57 pm

Towards the end of the summer, almost in a spirit of contrarianism, well-informed Americans started talking about President Joe Biden…

How bad will the midterms be for the Democrats?

22 October 2022 9:00 am

Should the Democrats expect a shellacking in the US midterms?

A bluffer’s guide to (yet another) Tory leadership race

21 October 2022 3:05 am

Here we go again – another leadership contest, another round of intense Westminster blather. Lightweight would-be commentators may feel their…