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Cummings' attack spells big trouble for Boris
When Number 10 briefed newspapers on Thursday that Dominic Cummings was the source of leaks of the Prime Minister’s text…
Putin steps back from the Ukrainian brink
After weeks building up forces in Crimea and close to the Ukrainian border — over 100,000, all told — Moscow…
Merkel's vaccine nationalism threatens India
You might have thought that Europe’s leaders would be wary of handing Brussels greater powers, given the various mishaps of the…
London's mayoral election is an embarrassment
Count Binface, a man who claims to be a 6,000-year-old ‘independent space warrior’, is running to be London mayor. In…
Number 10 should fear a Welsh nationalist coalition
As Disraeli’s famous maxim goes: England does not love coalitions. In Wales, by contrast, we can’t get enough of them.…
How the Tories can tackle generational inequality
Covid is far more fatal for the old than the young. But it is the young who have borne the…
Distorting the news to inflame the mob
NBC’s flagship news program completely garbled one of the week’s top stories: a deadly fight among teenage girls in Columbus,…
Scotland cannot be held in the Union against its will
Adam Tomkins’ suggestion that the UK should morph from a consent-based union of equals into a constitutional forced marriage contains…
Can Boris Johnson's green makeover woo red wall voters?
COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference due to be held in Glasgow, isn’t until November, but work is already…
The geriatic wokeness of Joe Biden
Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, has never been able to keep his mouth shut. Throughout his…
What the fight against HIV can teach us about defeating Covid-19
In the eighties, we were warned to beware an easily spread, deadly virus. The government’s ominous HIV adverts told us…
The Church of England's new religion
This article first appeared in the 20 March edition of The Spectator.The Church of England report that was leaked to Douglas…
Our shameful failure to commemorate black Great War heroes
A report by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) has this week concluded that ‘pervasive racism’ was to blame for the failure…
Pollster consistently overstated Scottish independence support
Few events are as eagerly anticipated in Scotland as the release of a bombshell new poll. Unionists and nationalists eagerly…
The rules of Putin's game
What does Putin want? It’s more straightforward than you might think: usually the answer is ‘what he says’. It’s worth remembering…
Democrats bring a gun to a knife fight
‘Let them kill each other’ is now the message coming from the White House, the activist left and mainstream media…
Is No. 10 planning a vaccine passport ruse?
Michael Gove’s trip to Israel to study the country’s ‘green pass’ system isn’t diminishing the impression among Conservative MPs that…
Boris is right to scrap televised press briefings
It may have been drowned out by the collapse of the European Super League last night, but for the government’s…
How the Super League sabotaged itself
‘So you’re telling me they’re wetting the bed because we’re suggesting the same teams should compete in a competition in…
Scotland’s Mean Girls election
Presented for whatever is the opposite of your edification, an exchange between the leaders of Scotland’s main political parties. The…
Beijing is quietly challenging Brussels
The new agreement between China and the US on climate change, announced this week, contained the usual worthy overtures. Both…
Can Biden bring relations with Russia back from the brink?
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a depressing assessment on the state of U.S.-Russia relations earlier this month. While holding…
There's nothing wrong with foreign owned football
Many are blaming the failed European Super League on foreign owners, presenting it as a greed fuelled attempt by overseas…
How to dip into political philosophy
Beneath the polarised political spats that characterise our national conversation, there is a surprising degree of consensus between left and right…
The collapse of the Brexit scare stories
The collapse in UK-EU trade after 1 January was widely reported. What has not been reported nearly as much is…
