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Who really blew up the Kerch Bridge?
Who blew up the Kerch bridge? One of President Zelensky’s most senior advisers, Mikhailo Podolyak, has suggested that the Russians…
Why is Liz Truss playing Emmanuel Macron’s game?
Is Emmanuel Macron a friend of the United Kingdom? Liz Truss said over the summer that she didn’t know, which…
Putin's attack dog brings a terrible type of warfare to Ukraine
The Crimean Bridge bombing was an unwelcome gift to both Vladimir Putin – who had celebrated his 70th birthday the…
Russian terror bombing arrives in Ukraine
It depends on when you are reading this but it’s possible that as you do, Russian missiles are still falling…
A baby boom won’t solve Britain’s labour shortage
Quite the scoop in yesterday’s Sun. An anonymous cabinet minister has briefed the paper that to secure Britain’s economic future,…
Nicola Sturgeon and the politics of hatred
One of the problems with nationalism – of any stripe – is its uglier undercurrents. The Scottish National Party has…
Can Truss repair the damage of her first four weeks?
Soon after being elected Tory leader, Iain Duncan Smith summed up a test that he was soon to fail. ‘At…
No one wants to be Meghan and Harry’s neighbours
Neighbours make or break home ownership. Getting home from a long day and collapsing onto the couch doesn’t have the…
Is Liz Truss going soft on China?
In her speech to the Conservative party conference, Liz Truss rightly pointed out that we did not stand up to…
The budget black comedy that foreshadowed the rise of Putin
‘The truth is with us,’ said Vladimir Putin in a speech after the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and…
The Kerch bridge attack is devastating for Putin
It’s hard to overstate the impact of the bombing of the Kerch bridge. Opened four years ago to great fanfare,…
A Boris Johnson comeback is ridiculous – but not impossible
It would obviously be ridiculous for the Conservatives to dump Liz Truss after just a few weeks and seek to re-install…
War of words: a history of Ukraine's language debate
It’s not often that ex-KGB officers blame Lenin for anything. But in his speech of 21 February 2022, on the…
The Woman King's flawed history lesson
As a general rule, it’s worth remembering that Hollywood is in the business of mythologising, rather than retelling history. The…
What Elon Musk doesn't get about peace
The power one person can hold should never be underestimated. They can take people’s lives, as Vladimir Putin does, or…
Opec will regret taking on the US
Production will be cut. Supplies to the rest of the world will be curbed. And inflation will rise just a…
'Real feminist' Nicola Sturgeon hits back at JK Rowling
JK Rowling is a feminist idol for lots of women. After the break-up of her marriage, Rowling became a single…
Truss is foolish to block Rees Mogg's energy saving campaign
When you have defined yourself against the nanny state and scorned the idea of limiting supermarket ‘two for one’ offers,…
Biden is playing politics with his marijuana pardons
In a somewhat shocking turn of events, president Biden has pardoned all people with federal convictions for simple marijuana possession…
Putin at 70: How The Spectator has covered his life
Vladimir Putin turns 70 today. Since he became Prime Minister of Russia in 1999, some of The Spectator’s greatest contributors…
Liz Truss's fate rests with the Bank of England
James Carville, an ostentatiously aggressive adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that when he died, he wanted to be reincarnated…
How likely are the lights to go out this winter?
Britain will make it through the winter without the lights going out. That’s the view of the National Grid, which is…
Paris’s football World Cup boycott will achieve little
Several French cities have announced that they will be boycotting the upcoming World Cup in protest against the Qatari state’s…
Oil giants aren’t government cash cows
According to Labour, solving the energy crisis is really very simple. Rather than funding an energy price cap through borrowing, as…
Many Europeans continue to yearn for British leadership
Liz Truss’s mind was probably elsewhere when she arrived in Prague for the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC)…
