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Putin crowns himself president of Russia again

18 March 2024 7:39 pm

As expected, following a three day ‘vote’, Vladimir Putin has once again crowned himself president of Russia. As of 9…

Princess Kate, photographs, and the great thirst for significance

18 March 2024 5:51 pm

When Photogate, or Kategate, or whatever we end up calling it, first became news, I remember taking one look at…

Meet the Russians in Serbia who voted against Putin

18 March 2024 4:47 am

Today, Russians in Serbia are heading to the polls to cast their vote and protest against what many see as…

We need to talk about war

18 March 2024 4:08 am

‘Don’t mention the war!’ Remember that? Today, war seems nearly all that European leaders want to talk about. The prospect…

How was the puberty blocking scandal ever allowed to happen?

17 March 2024 6:15 pm

Remember when Irish singer Róisín Murphy was set upon by the mob last year? Her crime: she criticised puberty blockers…

An ex-German diplomat’s withering verdict on Berlin’s ‘flawed’ Russia policy

17 March 2024 6:00 pm

Arndt Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven couldn’t have had a worse start as Germany’s ambassador to Poland. Germany’s fraught historical legacy…

What the rise of Islam means for Putin’s Russia

17 March 2024 5:30 pm

The term ‘Russians’, which the world likes to use for the 144 million citizens of my country, is often a…

The trials and tribulations of Orthodox Lent

17 March 2024 4:30 pm

The Russian Orthodox Church, which I converted to in 2018, has disgraced itself in the years since. Its Patriarch Kirill…

Women need nemeses

17 March 2024 9:00 am

My nemesis is a student at another university. She has not always been my nemesis. We were friends until I…

British politics has a democracy problem

17 March 2024 5:35 am

Vaughan Gething, the victor in the Welsh Labour leadership contest, will now become Wales’s first black First Minister. It is…

Vaughan Gething’s very British victory

17 March 2024 4:06 am

Something happened today which, if it were any other country, would be seen to be remarkable: Vaughan Gething, the new…

Will Penny Mordaunt be the next prime minister?

16 March 2024 8:22 pm

Could Penny Mordaunt lead the Tories into the election? This is the talk this weekend after several papers splashed on…

How Putin will rig the Russian election

16 March 2024 5:30 pm

Pity the poor political technologists, as Russia’s professionals in the dark arts of spin, propaganda, gerrymandering and outright ballot box…

Will France’s Olympians embarrass Macron?

16 March 2024 5:15 pm

France host England tonight in the final match of the 2024 Six Nations. ‘Le Crunch’, as this fixture has come…

Hamas blew Gaza’s golden opportunity

16 March 2024 5:00 pm

Whatever else the arguments concerning the Gaza War, none is more wrong-headed than the suggestion that Gazans were living in…

The price we’ll pay for citizens’ assemblies

16 March 2024 5:00 pm

Citizens’ assemblies will transform Britain. That’s the promise made by activists from groups like Extinction Rebellion. Labour has also mooted…

How did this London townhouse become the world’s greatest research centre?

16 March 2024 4:30 pm

If you were asked to name the world’s greatest research centre in terms of discoveries per square yard, the answer…

Don’t bother avoiding microplastics

16 March 2024 9:00 am

They’re everywhere, it seems: in the oceans, the fish, the soil, our drinking water, our vegetables, our grains and cereals,…

Tokyo’s toilets aren’t that great

16 March 2024 9:00 am

What is the world’s best city in which to be caught short? You can imagine a lively discussion on this…

How to sell The Spectator

16 March 2024 4:45 am

No foreign power will ever be allowed to buy a UK newspaper or magazine: that’s the upshot of this week’s debate…

How Ozempic fattened up Denmark’s economy

16 March 2024 3:08 am

It’s official: weight-loss wonder drug Wegovy (also marketed as Ozempic) makes US celebrities shrink but makes the Danish economy grow. This…

Porn project received thousands of pounds of Scottish taxpayers’ cash

16 March 2024 1:48 am

Good heavens. Just when you think events north of the border can’t get any more ridiculous, they do. Now it…

It’s time to declare Putin an illegitimate president

16 March 2024 1:44 am

For the next three days, Russians are heading to the polls supposedly to choose the country’s next president. Except we…

What America should heed from Julius Caesar’s assassination

16 March 2024 1:43 am

It being the Ides of March, I thought it might be worth reflecting briefly on the most famous event that…

Rishi Sunak rules out general election in May

16 March 2024 12:04 am

Rishi Sunak has finally confirmed what most MPs already knew: there won’t be a May general election. Speaking to ITV…