Donald Trump and the limits of free speech
Is Donald Trump’s expulsion from Twitter an attack on free speech? A great many Republicans are saying so. You certainly…
Why 2020 was the fourth best year in history
The Spectator has a long and proud history of fact-based optimism, sometimes represented by an end-of-the-year article explaining that statistics…
The Covid trap: will society ever open up again?
Will we ever go back to how we were?
Can we trust Covid modelling? More evidence from Sweden
At last we’re getting a debate about Covid-19 modelling. When people finally got to look under the hood of the…
The rise – and disastrous fall – of the kibbutz
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are part of a breed of socialists who argue that this time will be different.…
The fatal mistakes of Sweden's David Cameron
What Cameron can learn from the defeat of Swedish moderniser Fredrik Reinfeldt