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There’s nothing conservative about climate change
The combination of ’40°C temperatures’ and ‘England’ feels about as natural a pairing as ‘English football’ and ‘winning’; God simply…
Tory MPs will regret giving Kemi and Penny the boot
If the chaos of recent weeks in British politics has clarified anything, it’s the almost complete schism between Conservative MPs and…
Why Erdogan is now happy to snub Putin
Vladimir Putin’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the start of the Ukraine war was supposed to project…
Putin could come to regret his gas game with Europe
Russian president Vladimir Putin has always enjoyed trolling European leaders. As relations between Moscow and Berlin deteriorate over reduced natural…
Biden’s problem isn’t his age, it’s his eyesight
My brothers, my sisters, hold it right there. Thank you. We’re missing a major point, howsoever understandably. All this media…
HSBC has answered the call of the Chinese Communist Party
HSBC was being more than a little disingenuous when it claimed on Thursday that Communist party cells don’t have much…
What’s the matter with Disney?
If there’s one thing that gives a bad name to gender stereotyping it’s the Disney princess: a combination of hideous…
Why Zelensky is purging the security services of Ukraine
Could a general of the SBU, the security service of Ukraine, really have helped Russia take the city of Kherson?…
Germany is caught in Putin's trap
A collective sigh of relief went through Berlin this week as Russia resumed its gas deliveries through the Nord Stream 1…
In defence of Liz Truss’s ‘fairytale economics’
One of the key dividing lines of the current Tory leadership contest concerns economic policy. The gap between the candidates…
Priti and Truss back MPs over Beijing’s threats
Most Tories are focusing on the leadership race but for some there are other concerns. Take the five MPs who…
Ukraine and Russia sign grain deal – what next?
This afternoon Kyiv and Moscow signed a UN-backed agreement to free up at least 20 million tons of grain from…
Don’t blame Brexit for the Dover chaos
Queues stretching back for several hours. Children going crazy in the back seat. Cars breaking down in the heat, and…
A rather funny story about Ivana Trump
The death of Ivana Trump last week reminded me of a story I had always meant to check. I rang…
How much have the 6 January hearings damaged Trump?
The congressional inquiry into 6 January’s storming of the Capitol is having a break. In its last prime-time hearing of…
There's one court where Prince Harry can't win
When Prince Harry and Meghan ‘stepped back’ as working royals, you’d be forgiven for thinking we would see and hear from…
Why inflation will soon be over
Here’s a quick test: do you feel, in your bones, that we’ve entered into a new inflationary era or is…
Thatcher's way with words (1982)
This piece is taken from The Spectator’s archive 40 years ago this week. At the time, Charles Moore was the magazine’s…
Are masks bad for you?
Could masks be making us sick? That’s the suggestion in a Japanese study, published this week in Nature’s Scientific Report’s…
What Nigel Farage can learn from Marine Le Pen
It’s been five weeks since Marine Le Pen’s National Rally won 89 seats in the French parliamentary elections and thus…
How Germany's energy crisis could hurt Britain
For now, Berlin can breathe a sigh of relief: after a ten-day shutdown for maintenance, the Nord Stream 1 pipeline…
The unique feminism of Ivana Trump
For a woman whose life was all about ascent, there is a cruel irony to the fact that Ivana Trump…
Does Biden have Covid, cancer, and dementia?
Joe Biden has had a lot to worry about lately. First, according to his own account, he has cancer thanks…
Rishi Sunak has a mountain to climb to beat Liz Truss
It’s day one of the national campaign of the Tory leadership campaign – and Rishi Sunak has a mountain to climb.…
Hunter Biden may be indicted, reports…CNN?
Trouble may be ahead for America’s least favorite fortunate son. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are reportedly discussing whether to…
