Freddy Gray

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

Biden is treating his political opponents like domestic terrorists

14 September 2022 9:57 pm

What is going on in America? A celebrity eccentric known as ‘the Pillow guy’, his real name is Mike Lindell,…

Get ready for Liz mania

6 September 2022 3:00 pm

Here she is, then. Liz Truss is Britain’s third woman Prime Minister and she’s already suffering from the not-so-soft bigotry…

Drama queens: the return of Meghan and Harry

3 September 2022 9:00 am

Harry and Meghan are back with a vengeance

Is Joe Biden… winning?

27 August 2022 7:52 pm

Well, well, well – Joe Biden seems to be making something of a comeback. His approval rating, which dropped to…

Farewell, St Anthony Fauci

23 August 2022 3:30 pm

So farewell, Anthony Fauci, the unfortunate face of America’s pandemic response. Well, not so unfortunate – the doctor is stepping…

Is Liz Cheney a ‘martyr’ to Republican values?

17 August 2022 6:41 pm

In perhaps the least surprising electoral result we’ll see in America this year, the Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney lost to…

Going bananas: Biden's America is fast regressing

13 August 2022 9:00 am

America is fast regressing

Meghan Markle’s feelings don’t care about your facts

27 July 2022 8:50 pm

Did Meghan Markle grow up as an only child? She said she did, in that famously awful Oprah interview. Yet…

Trump’s return: is the Bad Orange Man on his way back to the White House?

23 July 2022 9:00 am

Is he about to stage his comeback?

How much have the 6 January hearings damaged Trump?

22 July 2022 10:16 pm

The congressional inquiry into 6 January’s storming of the Capitol is having a break. In its last prime-time hearing of…

End of quote. Repeat the line. Joe Biden can’t go on

12 July 2022 6:45 pm

How much longer can the global disaster that is Joe Biden’s presidency go on? Surely there comes a point when…

Boris was never Trump

7 July 2022 10:20 pm

The urge to compare Boris Johnson to Donald Trump was always irresistible. It has been fun, too. Both men are colourful…

The Tories will miss Boris now he’s gone

7 July 2022 7:14 pm

Boris Johnson was often talked about as the luckiest politician on earth — and in a sense he was. Outrageous…

Who says Boris has to go?

6 July 2022 5:35 pm

As the cameras burped and clicked, as an aggravated nation watched, Boris Johnson announced that he was giving up. ‘Let…

AOC's Roe v. Wade grandstanding has gone too far

28 June 2022 10:31 pm

If you’ve bothered to actually read the Supreme Court’s opinion on Roe v. Wade – rather than the endless social…

The problem with Billie Eilish’s Roe v. Wade intervention

25 June 2022 6:59 pm

The words ‘dark day’ went viral yesterday — in response to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade in…

The truth about the Roe v. Wade abortion 'ban'

25 June 2022 1:28 am

You wait decades for landmark reforms in America and then, like culture-war buses, two come along at once. Earlier this…

The death of political authority

18 June 2022 9:00 am

Voters are increasingly unsure where to turn

The Capitol riot hearings are farcically partisan

11 June 2022 12:15 am

Let’s get the boringly obvious out of the way. What happened in Washington on 6 January, 2021 was bad. Very…

Will Joe Biden be impeached?

28 May 2022 12:52 am

Before inflation began to eat the American economy alive, impeachflation had already undermined the office of the presidency. Donald Trump…

The Texas school shooting won’t change a thing

25 May 2022 8:20 pm

Joe Biden gave one of his more eloquent speeches yesterday in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school…

What is Black Lives Matter?

20 May 2022 12:17 am

It’s hard not to admire Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter foundation. Under fire over yet another…

Is the MAGA saga coming to an end?

19 May 2022 12:25 am

Did the Trump movement get a bloody nose in last night’s Republican primaries? It’s a story that most of the…

Why progressives can't tolerate Christians

10 May 2022 8:26 pm

For decades, Christians have talked about feeling persecuted in advanced secular and liberal democracies. They’ve often sounded a bit hysterical.…

JD Vance and America’s new right

4 May 2022 7:41 pm

JD Vance, the poor boy turned US Marine turned best-selling author turned venture capitalist turned politician, won the Senate Republican…