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Storm Eunice has nothing to do with climate change
I sat tight and braced myself for the worst this morning — not high winds but for the Today programme…
Why is Lord’s dropping the Eton-Harrow fixture?
In an act of thinly veiled class war, news broke this week that the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) has decided…
The New York Times takes aim at J.K. Rowling
It looks like the New York Times is at it again. In recent years, America’s least-reliable news source has developed a…
Sorry, Freedom Convoy — fundraisers are only for left-wing criminals
It seems to be harder to donate money to the Canadian truckers protesting their country’s vaccine mandate than it is…
Freedom isn’t ‘white’
An op-ed in the Washington Post about the Canadian truckers’ protest tells us that the idea of freedom is “White” with a capital W…
The Clinton campaign’s plot to politically assassinate Trump
There is a word for secretly collecting information about enemies or competitors to use against them. According to the latest…
Welcome to body-camera democracy
The introduction of body cameras as a staple of the police uniform has been a transformative piece of tech. After…
‘Xi Jinping Thought’ is taking over China’s classrooms
From last fall, in an extension of a personality cult not seen since Mao Zedong, “Xi Jinping Thought” is being…
Should we vaccinate children against Covid?
Is there any point in vaccinating five to 11-year-olds against Covid? For months the policy across the UK was not…
The Tate’s grubby cancellation of Rex Whistler
Tate Britain’s Rex Whistler restaurant will never reopen the gallery announced yesterday. The restaurant – once known for its excellent…
Poll: UK wary of sending troops to Ukraine
Another day and another wait to see what, if anything, will happen in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin still has thousands of soldiers…
Can Joe Biden channel John F. Kennedy over Ukraine?
In a submission for the hotly contested prize for fatuous belligerence over Ukraine, Ben Wallace, UK secretary of state for…
The human rights clampdown on free speech
On Wednesday, in a decision that ought to get a good deal more attention than it will, our Supreme Court…
The EU is pushing Hungary and Poland to the brink
Storm clouds looming over the EU’s ‘rule of law’ dispute turned a shade darker on Wednesday. The European Court of…
Putin has created a Schrödinger’s war in Ukraine
In his famous thought experiment, Schrödinger’s cat was both dead and alive in potential, until its box was opened to…
Will Prince Andrew fuel a republican boom?
So that’s then. After years of claims and counter-claims, Prince Andrew has settled with Virginia Giuffre for an eight-figure sum…
Is Germany finally standing up to Russia and China?
When German chancellor Olaf Scholz met Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday, the visuals said it all. As he had done…
P.J. O’Rourke: the finest satirist of his generation
P.J. O’Rourke was the finest conservative satirist of his generation and therefore the finest of any political persuasion. Satire, an…
Why the French right prefer Putin to progressives
Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Moscow last week was reminiscent of a trip made by Charles de Gaulle to the Russian…
Why ‘Ukraine carnage’ in the markets won’t last
Oil will shoot up to $130 a barrel. The prices of natural gas will double in a few hours, tipping…
DC Republicans quietly comply with Covid restrictions
Conservatives in the DMV have been very loud in their opposition to mask and vaccine mandates — but how many…
As with Iraq, so with Russia
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, we have been bombarded with many historical analogies. Leading the list are the…
P.J. O’Rourke 1947 — 2022
The great American journalist and satirist P J O’Rourke has died. He contributed a number of articles to The Spectator…
Prince Andrew settles. What next?
In some ways, the news is a disappointment. Prince Andrew’s decision to settle the civil case filed against him by…
What is Boris's partygate defence?
The presumption of many MPs — and maybe many of you — is that the Met is bound to issue…
