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Can Kim Jong-un survive for another ten years?
Ten years ago today, at noon on 19 December 2011, the veteran newsreader and ‘Pink Lady’ Ri Chun-hee, donned an…
Don’t underestimate the Omicron variant
As the Omicron variant makes its way through the population of the UK, the Chief Medical Officer’s warning that we…
Brexiteers will sorely miss Lord Frost
Lord Frost’s resignation is bad news for Boris Johnson, though that’s a side matter. Prime ministers come and go, what…
Lord Frost’s resignation is a brutal blow to Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson’s premiership has been plunged into further crisis tonight by the resignation of the Brexit minister Lord Frost. Frost…
Lord Frost: Britain needs low taxes and no vaccine passports
Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister and one of his closest allies, has resigned in protest at the ‘direction’ of the government.…
My Twitter conversation with the chairman of the Sage Covid modelling committee
The latest Sage papers have been published , envisaging anything from 200 to 6,000 deaths a day from Omicron depending on how…
Is Omicron really no less severe? A look at South Africa’s data
It’s an open secret that ministers are nervous about advice from Sage, given its track record in exaggerating the risk…
Pubs and restaurants are being decimated by Covid uncertainty
The run up to Christmas is normally a merry time for the hospitality industry. Our nation’s restaurants, pubs and bars…
Boris won’t change. Why should he?
Boris Johnson is not short of troubles, or advice. Most of that advice, from colleagues and commentators alike, comes down…
Billie Eilish is right about our porn-sick society
You could have knocked me down with a snowflake when Billie Eilish slammed pornography on the Howard Stern Show this…
The inevitability of Kamala Harris
I come neither to bury Kamala nor to praise her. Commentary on her vice presidency is polarized. Harris’s well-known praise…
Omicron is now Britain’s dominant Covid strain
If you test positive for Covid now in Britain, the odds are that it’s Omicron: it’s now the dominant strain…
Who’s a vigilante anyway?
The idea that what happened at the Capitol of January 6 was an “insurrection” was always a ridiculous and malevolent…
The shamelessness of David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf may not be Ron Klain’s favorite DC pundit. That title goes to Jennifer Rubin, the “conservative” Washington Post…
Can Boris really blame the press for his defeat?
When asked what went wrong in North Shropshire, Boris Johnson gave a fascinating answer: journalists. Apparently, they have been reporting…
How Boris Johnson survives
When the Conservative party looks in the mirror what does it see? Beyond the bruising, what face peers back from…
Is the EU heading for a booster crisis?
The Omicron variant spreads far more quickly. It infects far more people. And it is already rampant around the world,…
The joy of Boris’s bungled by-election
By any reasonable standard the result in the North Shropshire by-election must be reckoned the funniest in years. Perhaps even…
Boris Johnson is now in political purgatory
We have just witnessed one of the most dramatic defeats in the history of British by-elections. A 38 per cent swing…
It's time to take the Lib Dems seriously again
As far as seismic by-election results go, North Shropshire is one for the ages. The Tories had held onto the…
I took Hillary Clinton’s Masterclass in ‘resilience’
At some point near the one-hour mark, wooziness strikes. It’s that voice, that shrill drone. You can only take so much before the…
John Cleese’s cancel culture hypocrisy
‘Always look on the bright side of life’ sang Monty Python. But it seems that for at least one of the…
The war on Christmas comes home
America’s longest war has just come home. Last week, Fox News’s All-American Christmas Tree, standing merrily outside the channel’s headquarters…
The attacks on J.K. Rowling only prove her point
It is often said that J.K. Rowling is uncancellable. So rich and bankable is the Harry Potter author — now…
Ben Wallace takes aim at the misuse of the military
On this week’s Spectator TV, Andrew Neil interviews the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. The pair discuss Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran and…
