Freddy Gray

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

Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort – but can we trust him?

2 April 2022 9:00 am

Dmitry Firtash wants to help with the war effort — but can we trust him?

Could Biden gaffe us into world war three?

27 March 2022 9:19 pm

‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…

Has gambling become the great British addiction?

26 March 2022 9:00 am

When I was 14 my father took me to a bookmaker’s and encouraged me to place a bet. He wanted…

Why was the Hunter Biden laptop story covered up?

18 March 2022 7:17 pm

It’s now a familiar pattern – a sensational news story is dismissed by serious journalists as bogus right-wing agitprop. You’d…

The myopic focus on racism at the Polish-Ukrainian border

5 March 2022 9:50 pm

There are already a hell of a lot of foreign correspondents and human-rights workers at the Ukrainian-Polish border – an…

In Lviv, the mood is inspiring – and fanatical

5 March 2022 9:00 am

  Lviv, Ukraine On the Ukrainian side of the Polish border, near a place called Shehyni where the refugee crisis…

Joe Biden’s gung-ho State of the Union speech

2 March 2022 6:10 pm

It’s arguably not the right moment to focus on Joe Biden’s verbal slips, but it is a little unnerving when…

Would Trump have prevented the crisis in Ukraine?

23 February 2022 9:23 pm

‘I know Vladimir Putin very well,’ said Donald Trump yesterday, speaking of the Ukraine crisis, ‘he would have never done…

Why the silence over Biden's links with Ukraine?

23 February 2022 6:28 pm

‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…

The Starmer mob moral panic

9 February 2022 12:01 am

In the long history of British democracy, politicians have from time to time been heckled and abused by rowdy loons…

Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?

1 February 2022 3:48 am

President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…

Biden’s mask has slipped

25 January 2022 8:40 pm

It was, in a way, a refreshing moment of mental alacrity from President Joe Biden. Asked if he thought inflation…

Will Trump’s pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?

29 December 2021 10:06 pm

Donald Trump famously boasted that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and still not…

Will Trump's pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?

29 December 2021 2:55 am

Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…

There's nothing outrageous about Johnson's Christmas quiz

13 December 2021 12:07 am

Since lockdown, the Mirror has had a good line on Tory lockdown hypocrisy scandals: Barnard Castle and the No. 10…

Jussie Smollett and the rise of American hate hoaxing

10 December 2021 6:45 pm

So Jussie Smollett, the world’s most notorious hate hoaxer, has at last been found guilty of lying to the police. …

‘Immigration is war’: an interview with Éric Zemmour

27 November 2021 9:00 am

Éric Zemmour on Brexit, immigration and ‘le wokeisme’

The Palace vs the Sussexes

20 November 2021 9:00 am

The Fab Four at war

What's the truth about Kyle Rittenhouse?

17 November 2021 9:52 am

On the night of 25 August 2020, Richie McGinniss, a somewhat gonzo video journalist interviewed Kyle Rittenhouse, for the right-wing Daily Caller website. Rittenhouse wore his…

Superbad: Joe Biden’s plummeting presidency

6 November 2021 9:00 am

No wonder the President would rather be asleep

Plan Z: the rise of Éric Zemmour

23 October 2021 9:00 am

France’s new insurgent, Éric Zemmour

The never-ending terror of Islamism

17 October 2021 9:26 pm

It is no huge surprise Ali Harbi Ali, the man arrested on suspicion of the murder of David Amess, had…

The rise and rise of hate hoaxing

3 October 2021 3:00 pm

Last week, some racist graffiti was found at Parkway North and Parkway Central schools in the Midwest American state of…

Joe Biden’s presidency is unravelling

30 September 2021 8:01 am

Joe Biden’s presidency appears to be unravelling at remarkable speed. Back in January, in the days after his inauguration, Biden…

No, Biden didn't just snub Brexit Britain

22 September 2021 11:54 pm

For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of…