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Welcome to the age of nuclear blackmail
Vladimir Putin’s recent announcement that he was not bluffing about using nuclear weapons against the West in his war on…
A healthy Fetterman would have lost the debate too
Last night’s debate between Pennsylvania US Senate candidates Republican Mehmet Oz and Democrat John Fetterman, was, as The Spectator’s own…
Is Britain heading into an inflation spiral?
Inflation, asserted Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs, makes us all poorer. That is not entirely true – people relying…
How long before Rishi fatigue sets in?
The Prime Minister has an Asian background. You wouldn’t know that if you listened to the Tories at PMQs because…
The comfort of hating Britain
I occasionally get sent articles from the ‘London Correspondent of the Papua New Guinea Courier’ – less often, now that…
She was the Queen of the West
For much of my life, I confess I didn’t pay much attention to Queen Elizabeth II. My Muslim upbringing in Somalia,…
Backing Badenoch and Braverman is key to Sunak's success
What do you do when you are a prime minister presiding over a desperately difficult economic outlook riddled with features…
Sunak will be pleased with his PMQs debut
Rishi Sunak vs Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions today was spicier than many had expected. Both men enjoyed themselves,…
Watch: Sunak savages Starmer
What a first day. Just 24 hours after walking up Downing Street to enter that famous black door, Rishi Sunak…
Six of the worst reactions to Sunak as PM
The chorus of execration that met the appointment of Rishi Sunak as PM has been music to Steerpike’s ears. There are…
Delaying the fiscal statement is a wise move
The date of the fiscal statement has changed again. The Treasury has announced that the update – now being billed…
A ‘workaholic and nerd’: What Russia makes of Rishi
‘Handsome, rich, lucky, traitor.’ That’s how the Russian broadsheet newspaper Kommersant chose to describe the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…
Sunak's reshuffle kerfuffle
After Rishi Sunak completed his new look cabinet on Tuesday night, a Downing Street source declared that the shake-up of…
Letting John Fetterman debate was political malpractice
Like the proprietors of a gimp show at a carnival, Pennsylvania Democrats apparently get off on making the average viewer…
Hillary is the queen of election denial
Hillary Clinton has an ominous warning ahead of the 2024 election: right-wing extremists, she said this week, are already planning…
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is coming
This October, at the Twentieth National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping was elected to a…
Where in the world is Greta Thunberg?
When the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York in September, climate-watchers may have noticed a pesky, pigtailed vacuum.…
James Corden suddenly remembers his wife has a food allergy
Maybe it was all those drinks he guzzled after demanding the restaurant comp them, but James Corden forgot for a…
Liz Truss should have known better
In the coming weeks we’re going to learn a lot more about what went so badly wrong inside Liz Truss’s…
Is Putin preparing a nuclear strike?
Russia is peddling implausible tales of Ukrainian ‘dirty bombs’. Kyiv and the West are embarked on a campaign to counter…
Evan McMullin is the candidate from the deep state
Many Republican observers of the Utah Senate race have noted Evan McMullin’s obviously false claims at anything approaching ideological conservatism.…
Rishi's reshuffle: the appointments
Rishi Sunak is Britain’s third prime minister this year. On Tuesday, Sunak assembled a new top team with the hope…
Rishi Sunak vows to fix things for Britain
Unlike Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak didn’t skirt around the circumstances of the changing of the guard in No 10. His…
Why are Europe's gas prices falling?
Is Europe’s chilly winter destined to become another Millennium bug – a much-feared disaster that never transpires? Only a few…
Full text: Rishi Sunak's first speech as PM
Good morning. I have just been to Buckingham Palace and accepted His Majesty The King’s invitation to form a government in…
