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Did Tom Bradby ask Prince Harry ‘the tough questions’?
Poor old Tom Bradby. He got the interview that everyone wants to watch – the first sit-down with Prince Harry…
The Observer’s embarrassing John Stonehouse blunder
Oh dear. In their endless Tory-bashing quest, it seems that the Observer has blundered again. The release of a new…
China’s ICU problem
The difficulty of ramping up hospital care for Covid might threaten the CCP’s control of its people. Only a few…
The paradox of Alan Watts
There’s an advert for cruise holidays on television at the moment. It’s all dolphins and dining halls and laughing women…
China’s chip industry is struggling
China is entering the new year with its tech ambitions under a Covid cloud. The enormous cost of the now…
Even Americans are growing tired of the Sussexes
With his forthcoming memoir and surrounding publicity tours, the Duke of Sussex has passed the point of no return. He…
How Childline was captured by trans ideology
Childline has acted as a haven for struggling children for over 35 years. In 2006, it became part of the National…
What has Kevin McCarthy won?
After Kevin McCarthy finally ascended to the heights of the speaker’s chair, it remains to be seen what he actually…
It’s not just social science that could do with more mathematics
The physics department at King’s College London offers a module called ‘Gender Action’. Students studying this module go into schools and…
The UK has finally chalked up a Brexit win
We haven’t lowered tariffs on food. We haven’t done many new trade deals, and certainly not one with the United…
Does Harry’s own ghostwriter dislike him?
You really have to wonder what Harry and Meghan, hunkered down in their Montecito wellness bunker, currently make of the…
How long before Rishi Sunak goes off his own pledges?
When I was a student, my housemates and I would buy our groceries from a shop that offered only days…
Isn’t it time we stripped Harry and Meghan of their titles?
Is it time that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex became plain Mr and Mrs Windsor? They seem so full…
Five times Harry invaded other people’s privacy
‘It never needed to be this way,’ sighs Prince Harry in the trailer for his forthcoming ITV interview: ‘the leaking…
The Elgin marbles and the rot of ‘decolonisation’
The proposed return to Greece, in the guise of loans, of some of the British Museum’s most iconic objects, the…
Prince Harry has done something unforgivable
I’m just going to say it: I’m Team William. In that scrap that Prince Harry says happened at Nottingham Cottage,…
Why did Facebook reject The Spectator’s Joe Biden cover?
Earlier this week, I was asked to list the three biggest threats to the media. Aside from the general sales…
Can booze break the gridlock in Congress?
Need a hit on Capitol Hill? Take your pick. Members and staffers alike are addicted to Twitter, where they log…
The Russian conscription adverts that show Putin is losing the plot
‘War is the realm of uncertainty’, said the Prussian military analyst Carl von Clausewitz, and this would seem to apply…
Did Stonewall invent 300,000 non-existent trans people?
How many people in Britain are transgender? Until today, there hasn’t been an official answer to that question. New census…
Putin violates his own Christmas ceasefire in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s 36 hour ceasefire in Ukraine, which came into effect at noon today, didn’t last long: less than two…
Blame weak political parties for Kevin McCarthy’s mess
For the second consecutive time, the opening of a congressional session has been mired in chaos. In 2021, the certification…
Harry and Meghan’s popularity slumps post-Netflix
The Sussexes’ self-promotional tour is up and running: interviews with Tom Bradby and Anderson Cooper for Harry this weekend, ahead…
Isis and the ticking time bomb facing the West
You thought Isis was old news. The world celebrated its territorial defeat nearly four years ago. The group that once controlled…
Prince Harry’s book is a gift to the world
And still it keeps on coming. We had barely absorbed the first wave of revelations – jewellery mashed, dog bowls…
