Not even close: how Trump confounded the pundits
It was supposed to be close. On the eve of election day, Donald Trump was up just 0.1 per cent…
Why Kemi was the right choice
A version of this article was originally published in last week’s issue of The Spectator. What set Margaret Thatcher apart…
Trump’s second act: he can still win, in spite of everything
Why I think Trump will be the next US President
Volodymyr Zelensky is a hero of our time
When the Queen died, I was on my way to Kyiv. My mind focused on the war in Ukraine, I…
Vlad the Invader: Putin is trying to recreate the tsarist Russian Empire
To appreciate Putin’s intent, you only have to look at Russian history
Science fiction’s curious ability to predict the future
How science fiction can prepare us for what happens next
The China model: why is the West imitating Beijing?
From spending to lockdown, the West is copying Beijing
The tech supremacy: Silicon Valley can no longer conceal its power
Can anyone stand up to big tech?
Corona wars: It’s Trump vs Xi
Who will win?
Who will win the corona wars?
This article is in The Spectator’s May 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. The Covid-19 pandemic came along just as…
The people’s decade: how will history come to define the 2010s?
The 1960s were swinging. The 1970s were stagflationary. In the 1980s we made loadsamoney and greed was good. The 1990s…
Will Boris Johnson break up the Union?
I spent the early part of last week in London, filming what are known in the television trade as PTCs…
Tech vs Trump
In the 1962 Japanese sci-fi classic King Kong vs Godzilla, the two giant monsters fight to a stalemate atop Mount…
China’s students aren’t so scary any more
In 1873, when Jules Verne published his Around the World in Eighty Days, it seemed worth betting that a circumnavigation…
Sorry, America, but it looks like Joe Biden is your next president
I have a sinking feeling that Joe Biden might be the next president of the United States. In a brilliant…
Jonathan Portes, master of the political correction
Jonathan Portes, master of the political correction
Niall Ferguson’s diary: Brazil is overtaking us – but it no longer feels like that
São Paolo It was back in 2001 that my good friend Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym ‘Bric’,…
