World

Putin's energy war has changed Germany's relations with Russia for good

5 September 2022 5:57 pm

After months of speculation and handwringing, it has finally happened: Germany and the rest of Europe are now receiving no…

Liz Truss will come to regret her 'bonfire' of workers' rights

5 September 2022 5:12 pm

Liz Truss is right about sex and gender. But if she is to get the country through the next winter…

The EU is hoping to catch Liz Truss on the backfoot over Brexit

5 September 2022 5:01 pm

A vital part of gamesmanship, according to the British author Stephen Potter, is to disconcert your opponent before they have joined…

The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health

5 September 2022 12:08 pm

“Global health” has emerged in the last decade or so as one of the growth areas in the medical and…

Is it time to defund the humanities?

4 September 2022 7:00 pm

Much of the cost of running our universities and other centres of higher education is borne by government, meaning the…

Only an ‘un-conservative’ measure can solve the energy crisis

4 September 2022 5:46 pm

The UK economy has so far held up reasonably well in the face of the rise in energy prices. But…

Beer and loathing: Why Russians loved and hated Gorbachev

4 September 2022 5:03 pm

A paradox about Mikhail Gorbachev for my generation of Russians – I was seven years old when he became general…

Why Poland wants Germany to pay war reparations

4 September 2022 5:00 pm

Poland commemorated the 83rd anniversary of its invasion by Nazi Germany this week. To mark the occasion the leader of…

Will Liz Truss's Tory party practice what it preaches?

4 September 2022 4:30 pm

The Tory party is very good at pointing out — and profiting from — how the Labour party often values…

Will Chad become Africa’s next warzone?

4 September 2022 4:30 pm

If you went to Doha this summer, you may have seen some militiamen from Chad. Perhaps at breakfast. For the…

Vaccines disguised the errors of our lockdown policy

4 September 2022 4:00 pm

Liz Truss’s statement that she would never authorise another lockdown and The Spectator’s interview with Rishi Sunak have triggered a…

The case for energy nationalisation

4 September 2022 4:00 pm

We are living through an energy crisis unlike anything since the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979. The average household…

The problem with parliament’s partygate inquiry

4 September 2022 1:58 am

Boris Johnson has recently employed the services of the lawyer Lord Pannick, who has given his legal opinion on a…

Why it’s still worth asking questions on lockdown

4 September 2022 12:34 am

Rishi Sunak’s interview in last week’s magazine has inspired a lot of comment. Two this week: Lee Cain, ex-No. 10…

Macron is blaming Putin for his own net zero folly

3 September 2022 7:00 pm

France is at war again, or as good as, according to Emmanuel Manuel’s recent rhetoric. This time the enemy is…

Putin’s closure of Nord Stream 1 has left Britain exposed

3 September 2022 6:19 pm

Few will be minded to believe Russia’s explanation for cutting off Nord Stream 1 pipeline – that it is a…

Remembering Gorbachev

3 September 2022 5:56 pm

In early January 1997, I met my boyhood hero. It was in the grounds of his wintry dacha outside Moscow.…

Ukraine’s Kherson offensive may have already been a success

3 September 2022 5:00 pm

The Ukrainian armed forces launched a long–awaited offensive on Kherson this week. However, the counter-offensive was signalled for so long…

Is Liz Truss the British Trump?

3 September 2022 4:00 pm

Readers must understand how the jargon of political chicanery has corrupted journalism if they are to make sense of the…

Why the Baltics fear Russia

3 September 2022 4:00 pm

In the historic heart of Riga, Latvia’s lively capital, there is a building that reveals why the Baltic States remain…

Biden declares war on half the country

3 September 2022 1:29 pm

Joe Biden’s speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on Thursday was one of the most remarkable in living memory. By “remarkable,” I…

The truth about Extinction Rebellion

3 September 2022 2:05 am

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse – Extinction Rebellion are back! Well, if you thought an unprecedented…

Is the Boris partygate probe 'flawed'?

2 September 2022 10:00 pm

The new prime minister has not been announced yet, but Lord Marland – an ally of Boris Johnson – has…

Boris's resignation honours list: runners and riders

2 September 2022 9:43 pm

There’s very much an end of days feel in SW1 right now. With parliament in recess and a Truss coronation…

France can’t keep its Jews safe

2 September 2022 9:22 pm

France is home to roughly half-a-million Jews. The country’s Jewish community is the largest in Europe, and the third largest…