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Playgrounds are no place for Pride parades
Parents standing at the school gate have all kinds of hopes and expectations. They want their children to be happy,…
Welsh rugby is on the brink of collapse
Rugby is a gladiatorial game – as Wales’s Six Nations match today against Ireland will surely prove. But even the greatest…
No man should ever be sent to a women’s prison again
It’s interesting, the way that laws and policy can change seemingly out of the blue. In April last year, following…
It’s time to talk about Nato membership for Ukraine
There was a time when Ukraine’s accession to Nato was a fantasy. It wasn’t just that Ukraine was dismally poor,…
George Santos: ‘I’ve kept 100 percent of my campaign promises’
George Santos is frustrated. In an hour-long interview with The Spectator, Santos tried to make it clear he came to…
China and the strange history of balloon warfare
China’s ‘spy’ balloon, (or is it an errant weather balloon?), is currently being tracked across America. Picked up above the…
Women prisoners are being let down
The safety of women in prisons cannot be allowed to plummet back down the news agenda after the latest Sturgeon…
The ever-shifting excuses about Hunter Biden’s laptop
Hunter Biden’s defense about his incriminating laptop sounds like an old joke about a trial lawyer who was accused of…
How will Mason Greenwood fare in the court of public opinion?
Mason Greenwood’s future at Manchester United remains uncertain, but one thing is clear: the footballer will not be available for…
Gender self-ID and the challenge for America’s children
America’s Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wisely advised this week that thirteen years of age is too young for kids to…
Europe has lost control of the migrant crisis
Piers Morgan brought out the bulldog in Rishi Sunak during their interview on Thursday evening. ‘If you come here illegally…
Why Putin is channelling his inner Stalin
Vladimir Putin has journeyed to the southern city of Volgograd – better known by its former name of Stalingrad –…
Do mask mandates work?
This week there was an update to a Cochrane review, which studies the way physical interventions can interrupt or reduce the spread…
Why won’t the Palestinian ambassador condemn the Jerusalem massacre?
Husam Zomlot is head of the Palestinian mission to London and an adviser to the country’s president Mahmoud Abbas, currently…
Why after Covid does everyone drive like maniacs?
I’m cruising on an uncongested stretch of Interstate 80 when I see an eighteen-wheeler plodding up the hill ahead. I…
Trump forfeits his vaccine success to attack DeSantis
Why would a candidate for the presidency purposefully undermine his greatest achievement in government — one that required the movement…
Democracy in Peru is under attack
For over a month, Peru has been in a state of near-constant unrest. In December, as the legislature threatened to…
Why is Australia’s bank snubbing King Charles?
Traditionally, the reigning monarch has appeared on the lowest denomination of Australia’s banknotes. It is a practice that harks back…
Why is the British Medical Journal investigating the Beano?
One of the regular characters in Viz is an old woman called Meddlesome Ratbag who goes to great lengths to…
Have interest rates finally peaked?
Markets expected another interest rate rise today of 50 basis points. That’s exactly what they got. This afternoon the Bank…
Shame on the Cardinal Pell funeral protesters
In Sydney today, the LGBT movement had its Westboro Baptist Church moment. It protested at someone’s funeral. Like that cranky…
Don’t condemn Shell over its bumper profits
It is ‘obscene’ and ‘an insult to working families’, according to the TUC. If there was one thing more predictable…
From the archive, 1943: The Germans have suffered a humiliation at Stalingrad
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the German defeat at Stalingrad. Below is The Spectator’s piece from February 1943, available…
When the moon brought America together
The Artemis rocket is back from the moon. Within a couple of years, if all goes to plan, it will…
The tragedy of corporate America’s anti-child messaging
My brothers and I grew up in a very active household. We were always busy with sports, schoolwork, and chores,…
