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Exclusive: Trump blasts Biden on Critical Race Theory - and much, much more
President Donald Trump spoke exclusively with Amber Athey, The Spectator’s Washington editor, via phone on Wednesday. The interview covered a range of…
Audits restore faith in elections
Election audits of the 2020 election are under attack in the media. It’s easy to see why some calls for…
Levelling up is Johnsonian cakeism
Until this morning, few people in Britain will have heard of the works of Wilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). Now, thanks to…
Boris is sprawling across the centre ground
That was the most Boris Johnson speech imaginable. His supporters at party conference will have lapped it up, they certainly…
Help! I don’t know what a cervix is
With all this talk of private parts, the political has now gotten very personal. Recently, I was having an argument…
The Facebook empire is beginning to crumble
When empires crumble they slide slowly at first, then the temple walls come crashing down. Facebook is not quite at…
A short history of political violence
The ugly attack on Iain Duncan Smith by five protestors at the Tory conference in Manchester has been widely seen…
Biden stole Donald Trump’s foreign policy
When President Donald Trump in 2020 signed a trade deal with China after years of escalatory tariffs, then-presidential candidate Joe…
Liz Cheney is running scared in Wyoming
Last Wednesday, Rep. Liz Cheney seized the opportunity during a House Armed Services Committee hearing to apologize to Gen. Mark…
One of Washington’s best bars returns
Cockburn has rarely met a pub he didn’t like, though plenty of pubs haven’t taken a liking to Cockburn. Fortunately,…
Power fail: French tantrum diplomacy is wearing thin
It’s hard for tabloid journalists to engage in mad hyperbole when politicians seem all too willing to do it for…
Sunak faces the free-marketeers
Rishi Sunak didn’t give too much away tonight when he spoke at the ThinkTent Conservative Party Conference. The Chancellor is…
Priti Patel strikes a bullish tone
The theme of Priti Patel’s party conference speech this afternoon was very much ‘large and in charge’. She devoted much…
The powerlessness of Priti Patel
It is hard not to feel sorry for Priti Patel. She would surely have been a Tory conference darling at the…
How the Tories can 'level up' without annoying Nimbys
Have the Conservatives lost their nerve on planning reform? Not quite, but a couple of small interventions at the Conservative…
The contradictory Tory home working jibes
Why have ministers become so obsessed with where people are doing their work? The war on working from home has…
Dave Eggers cancels Amazon
Selling books through Amazon is now part and parcel of a working author’s life. It would be a brave writer…
Why the fringes are taking centre stage at Tory conference
Tory conference is so stage-managed these days that the main hall has long felt like a bit of a sideshow…
Why Boris is losing his fight against Sturgeon
Gavin Barwell has made a good point, albeit inadvertently. Theresa May’s former chief of staff has a book out, imaginatively…
Joe Biden and Terry McAuliffe’s ‘conservative’ friends
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, in the recent Virginia gubernatorial debate against Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin, touted an odd endorsement:…
WhatsApp collapse throws Tory plots into chaos
The world’s oldest democratic party has had a few problems with technology in recent years. Famously it was the 2018…
Kyrsten Sinema’s harassers shouldn’t get a pass from Biden
Ever wonder why President Biden doesn’t take questions very often? Or more accurately, why his staff doesn’t allow him to…
Is Russia ready for a Romanov restoration?
Hail the tsar! Georgy Romanov, great-grandson of Grand Duke Kirill, cousin to Nicholas II, the ill-fated final Emperor of Russia,…
Xi threatens Taiwan because he's weak
Over the weekend, China sent waves of warplanes racing towards Taiwan in numbers not seen before, forcing the democratic self-ruled…
Red Wall Tories hit out at cost of net zero
One of the government’s flagship priorities this parliament has been its pledge for Britain to reach ‘net zero’ carbon emissions…
