World
Is Cambridge university ashamed of Winston Churchill?
When I first started at Churchill College, Cambridge, I was proud that I had joined an institution whose very existence…
Nick Kristof and a tale of two Oregons
It’s a strange thing about the long-serving New York Times opinion writer Nick Kristof, who apparently now wants to be governor of Oregon. The…
Macron’s pointless fish war
During the now virtually forgotten cod wars between Iceland and the United Kingdom from 1958 to 1976, the diminutive foreign…
Join: The Spectator's online COP26 summit
The two-week COP26 climate change summit starts this weekend, with 100,000 expected on a protest march in Glasgow. And tomorrow, we…
Zemmour's xenophobia
The received opinion is that Islam and immigration are Éric Zemmour’s prime targets as his putative presidential campaign gathers pace. But…
Do we want the nanny state tracking our every step?
The best thing that can be said about the government’s latest anti-obesity scheme is that it’s cheap. For now. The…
Saint Jacinda backs a two-tier society
For many so-called liberals, Jacinda Ardern seemed to be the perfect premier. Warm, empathetic, progressive, above all – moderate –…
Joe from Scranton? More like Bogus Biden
During the 2020 election, Joe Biden positioned himself as the Democrat who could win the working class from President Donald…
Why did we decide that Covid was over?
Look, I don’t know much epidemiology. Can’t pretend to. So what follows is, necessarily, a personal finger to the wind.…
Is the European Court of Justice about to unravel?
For the European Union to work, its law must be supreme. All member states have courts, but those courts submit…
Who asked Meghan Markle to save Build Back Better?
Could a helping hand from a considerate royal help Nancy Pelosi in her time of need? Right now the House…
Boris Johnson should trust the market to solve climate change
In a 368-page document published this week, the government announced its strategy to cut emissions to net zero by 2050…
LSE takes £1.5 million from China
Boris Johnson might insist that the UK will not ‘pitchfork’ Chinese investment but it seems not everyone in government agrees.…
Joe Biden’s Soviet town hall
Is it more worrying that President Biden might not be in charge, or that he actually is in charge? Nobody…
No. 10 moves to kickstart the booster campaign
In a move that as important as any in the recent Cabinet reshuffle, Emily Lawson is returning to run the…
The latest celebrity must have? A trans child!
Hard luck, Madonna, your lovingly assembled rainbow family is no longer the most cutting-edge crew on the showbiz block. If…
Rishi's Budget wriggle room
Whisper it, but Rishi Sunak looks to be heading into the Budget next week with the public finances in a…
Labour MPs pose with convicted harasser
Irony was officially pronounced dead this week after disgraced MP Claudia Webbe launched an attack on ‘wrong, bad and exploitative’…
Biden’s State Department is a laughingstock
Last week, the State Department learned that twice this summer China had tested a new hypersonic missile weapon with nuclear…
The void at the centre of Britain's net zero strategy
Boris Johnson wants to turn your house green. This week, he published the plan for doing it. In fact, the…
Does ‘white privilege’ exist?
On Wednesday Radio 4 aired a programme called White Mischief,which promised to trace ‘where whiteness came from and how its…
The media has a climate change blind spot
Are you someone who is delighted by the government’s eye-wateringly expensive commitment to deliver ‘net zero’ by 2035, or are…
Banning anonymity creates more problems than it solves
There are growing calls to end internet anonymity in the wake of Sir David Amess’s death. The Tory MP Mark…
COP26 hit by yet another strike
It’s just ten days to go before COP26, the green gathering described by Ed Miliband as ‘the most consequential summit that has ever…
The problem with the EU’s messianic treatment of Poland
Mateusz Morawiecki insists his government does not want to take Poland out of the EU. ‘Eighty-eight per cent of Poles…
