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Cambridge University is blind to reality in the gender debate
Newnham College, Cambridge, was once a bastion of feminist activism. No longer. This summer my curiosity was drawn to two…
Is Iran going to execute its protestors?
Are protestors in Iran going to be sentenced to death? That grim question will be on the mind of many…
The electoral mediocrity of Donald Trump
If you live in the world inhabited by Donald Trump’s strongest supporters, you’ve seen the man perform all sorts of…
Why the counting in Arizona is taking so long
“What’s the problem with Arizona?” I’ve been asked this question countless times in the past week, as I was after Election…
Jeremy Hunt is wrong about ‘British compassion’
Delivering his Autumn Statement on Thursday, Jeremy Hunt specified two ‘great national’ qualities: genius and ‘British compassion’. The Chancellor’s announcements…
Nancy Pelosi won’t go away
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today that in the wake of Republicans taking the House, she’s doing exactly what the…
Labour can’t believe they are heading for victory
Last night, Labour politicians wondered how to respond to the challenges the Chancellor was sending their way. Do you accept…
How ballot harvesting could save elections
“Ballot harvesting.” To some, it’s a creepy term, conjuring images of hulking party machines plowing through passive fields of citizens,…
Murdoch stumps up for Boris’s Montana meeting
Boris Johnson hasn’t always enjoyed the best relationship with Rupert Murdoch’s titles, having once been sacked as a Times trainee…
Jeremy Hunt takes the tax burden to post-war high
Jeremy Hunt has just announced the most austere fiscal statement since 2010. The Chancellor’s plan to plug the £55 billion…
Sunak’s Conservatives are the party of zero growth
We might get a new nuclear power station one day, unless the protestors or the Supreme Court find a way…
Hunt’s ‘Tesla tax’ doesn’t go far enough
There were some very chunky tax rises in the Autumn Statement, most of them using the device of ‘fiscal drag’,…
Joe Biden is the phantom of the Potomac
The day after the election last week, Roger Kimball posted a column here at The Spectator World acknowledging that he…
Labour’s attack lines are working
Rachel Reeves is getting better and better as Shadow Chancellor. Mind you, her response to Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement was…
Three ways Hunt’s Autumn Statement will be judged
The government expects its Autumn Statement to be judged on three tests. First of all, how do the markets react?…
Will the Autumn Statement break the Tory truce?
It’s crunch day for Rishi Sunak. This morning his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the despatch box and unveil…
What can we expect from Hunt’s Autumn Statement?
Later this morning Jeremy Hunt will deliver his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor. With the focus firmly on the dire…
The Republican Party machine needs to be overhauled
The GOP absolutely blew a historic opportunity in the 2022 midterms and, sadly, it seems nothing in the party will…
Is Xi drifting away from Putin?
There’s been none of the wolf warriorism we’ve become used to from Chinese diplomats as President Xi met world leaders…
Watch: Xi rips into Trudeau
Justin Trudeau might be the self-anointed king of elite liberal opinion but it appears his methods find little favour with…
Does Westminster even care about the Union?
The Supreme Court will hand down its judgment in the Scottish independence referendum case next Wednesday. This is the reference…
Big Pickleball is coming for your tennis court
One morning this past summer I played tennis with two friends at the John J. Carty tennis courts in Bay Ridge,…
NATO acquits itself well in the Poland missile crisis
Mid-afternoon Tuesday, a missile struck the town of Przewodow in eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border, killing two. The…
Is China finally easing its zero Covid strategy?
China’s president Xi Jinping has shaken hands with more world leaders over the last two days than he has met…
A worrying lesson from the Polish missile tragedy
When what seems to have been a Ukrainian S-300 air defence missile accidentally hit the village of Przewodów in Poland,…
