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Are Germany’s Greens on borrowed time?
Have cracks started to show in Germany’s traffic light government? Less than 18 months after chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic…
The Good Friday Agreement and the amnesia over the Troubles
It was an overcast Sunday morning in January 1983 and two IRA gunmen were waiting outside Belfast’s St Brigid’s church.…
Melania Trump never stood a chance
Where is Melania? This is the question on everyone’s minds after the former first lady was absent from the afterparty…
Is Elon Musk really a ‘free speech absolutist’?
Elon Musk, the Twitter owner, is in his own words a ‘free speech absolutist’. He promised to combat censorship and allow…
Will the EU finally see sense over its Common Agricultural Policy?
What should be done about Ukraine’s grain exports? Ongoing controversy in Poland over the country’s imports into the EU, which…
Does King Charles’ Green Man make him a pagan?
On 4 April the Royal Household revealed the design for invitations to the Coronation, the work of heraldic artist Andrew…
Can we brainwash our enemies?
Disinformation is on the rise, and Britain’s spies are on the back foot. Our intelligence leaders warn about election meddling,…
The indictment that broke the country
It was a bright blue-skied July day in 1861, so the Washington elite decided to have a picnic and take…
When will Prince Harry break his Coronation silence?
Two thousand among the great and the good from around the world will soon receive a letter from King Charles…
The Democrats will come to rue this Trump indictment
So, everyone was even more right than they thought: Alvin Bragg’s breathlessly awaited arraignment of former president Donald Trump really…
Hola, here’s the first Brexit Benefit
Whenever Brexit is discussed these days, you will nearly always find a splenetic or exultant Remainer asking, often in a…
Watch: Jacinda Ardern’s final cringeworthy speech as PM
It’s a bad time for soporific narcissists in office. Just weeks after the self-indulgent grandstanding of Nicola Sturgeon’s farewell press…
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband arrested in SNP finance investigation
Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the SNP and the husband of Scotland’s former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, was…
The Guardian has wrecked itself
It’s so strange now to think that I spent several happy years as a Guardian columnist, the only billet from…
My unexpected lunch with Nigel Lawson
When I joined the House of Lords in 2013 I soon realised that, despite its poor reputation, the place contained…
Trump’s indictment is a tempest over bookkeeping
The American rule of law, which seems so precious to holier-than-thou Democrats these days, depends above all on one thing:…
Men: it’s time to bring back sideburns
Our nation’s collective Man Card is on the verge of being rescinded. The number of “lonely, single men” is rising…
The insanity of the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ led America to this point
They have come from far and wide today to see the elephant in New York City. The #Resistance that promised…
Who could replace Gary Lineker on Match of the Day?
Just when you thought you couldn’t handle any more depressing news, Gary Lineker has started dropping hints that his days…
Why Alvin Bragg’s indictment is truly unprecedented
A president who never held elected office before occupying the White House faces plenty of enemies, even some skepticism among…
Paul O’Grady represented a bygone era of TV
The tragically early death of the magnificent Paul O’Grady struck a blow at the national heart that’s unusual for a celebrity…
Get ready for the Passion of The Donald
It won’t have escaped Donald Trump’s notice that his arrest has come during Holy Week, when our Lord and Saviour…
What’s going on with Carol Vorderman?
It seems that Labour have a secret weapon in their local election campaign. For months now, Carol Vorderman has been…
Nigel Lawson’s legacy is one of British transformation
The path from the editor’s chair at The Spectator to 11 Downing Street was not untrodden when Mrs Thatcher asked…
Russia’s long history of female assassins
The news that a young woman anti-war activist, Darya Trepova, is suspect number one in the bombing assassination of Russian…
