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Another set of Northern Irish elections won’t solve anything
Northern Ireland is set for another election. The failure to reboot the province’s power-sharing Executive by the deadline last Friday…
A.N. Wilson and the ‘aesthetic’ relationship to religion
My first Spectator article, 21 years ago, was a rebuke to the religious attitude of certain public intellectuals whom I…
Putin's war has exacted a terrible toll on Ukraine
Putin badly miscalculated. The Russian army terribly underperformed. Kyiv has shown unexpected resilience in the face of what experts thought…
Why Biden is finished with Mohammed bin Salman
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister had some cheeky words for the Biden administration this week: don’t blame us for manipulating the…
On the ground with Obama, Warnock and Abrams in Georgia
College Park, Georgia Former president Barack Obama came down to Georgia stump for Senator Raphael Warnock and gubernatorial candidate Stacey…
Truss in Russian phone-hacking scare
Oh dear. Liz Truss probably didn’t think her week could get any worse, five days after resigning the premiership and…
Rishi raids ITV (again)
The revolving door in No/ 10 seems to turn even faster these days, given the news that Downing Street will…
What's wrong with being an apocalypse denier?
This week, on BBC radio, I made a confession: I am a denier. Not a climate-change denier – an apocalypse…
It's time to stop turning the clocks back
British households could save £400 a year if we left the clocks alone this weekend instead of putting them back…
Putin's war is tearing Russian families apart
Renata is a young paediatrician from St Petersburg who, since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, keeps crying at work. Her colleagues…
In defence of VAR
There isn’t much that unites the fractious, dysfunctional football family. But in the UK, at least, there is something most…
Pat Buchanan and thirty years of culture wars
It was a relatively cool 85 degrees in Houston on the August evening thirty years ago when Republicans gathered at the…
Is the Trump 2024 team taking shape?
Cockburn and his spies have been busy collecting gossip for you all week. James Corden’s bad attitude So apparently before…
Sunak should acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
When Liz Truss’s premiership came to an abrupt end, it appeared to spell doom for a historic policy shift raised…
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover isn't so bad
It’s finally happened. After months of legal wrangling, Twitter has fallen. All hail King Elon; the ‘bird is freed’. The…
Why we should stop worrying and learn to love AI
Whether on British television news panels or late-night TV in America, it is hard to get away from talk about…
Farage gets his fortune (and freedom)
He’s had his money worries in the past, but life seems to be pretty sweet for Nigel Farage right now.…
Eighty years later, World War II is fading from historical memory
With worries about inflation, the war in Ukraine, and tension over Taiwan, it’s easy for Americans to forget that we…
Why Sunak backtracked over fines for missed GP appointments
Not surprisingly, Rishi Sunak has dropped plans to fine NHS patients £10 for missed appointments. It was one of the…
Are Sunak and Hunt planning a windfall tax grab?
When Rishi Sunak entered No. 10 on Tuesday, he paid lip service to the aims of his predecessor. Liz Truss…
Why shouldn't Macron meet Meloni?
One in four Italians who voted at last month’s election backed Giorgia Meloni’s conservative Brothers of Italy party – that is 7,302,517…
Will Putin use Belarus to attack Ukraine?
For the past month, Russian soldiers have been gathering in Belarus. Thousands of conscripts are assembling. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, Russia’s…
Now is the time for a strong social conservatism
President Biden’s recent interview with transexual TikToker Dylan Mulvaney is a clarifying event for anyone who pays attention to America’s…
Democrats are losing because liberalism has become cruel
Welp, so much for the blue wave. That towering electoral tsunami, which was to deluge the midterm races in a…
The radical alternative to a hospital birth
Giving birth hurts. A lot. Like any other major physical feat, it’s risky, but it’s not the inherently dangerous medical event…
