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What we know so far about the Oxford vaccine
It’s three for three as far as positive outcomes from Covid vaccine trials are concerned. But the announcement from AstraZeneca…
Meet Boris Johnson’s new chief of staff
Boris Johnson’s search for a chief of staff to bring order to 10 Downing Street has proved so difficult that…
What do excess deaths tell us about Covid?
Assessing the number of Covid deaths has been notoriously difficult throughout the pandemic. Over the summer, English figures were revised down…
Diego Maradona, a god of football
Argentina has announced three days of national mourning after the death of Diego Maradona. Take a second and think about…
Trump does the right thing by pardoning Gen. Flynn
Once again, President Trump has done the right thing. This afternoon, he announced that earlier today he had pardoned Lt.…
Trump’s story is still not over
The triumphant ululations of the almost unanimous Trump-hating media of America and much of the world did not clarify the…
The pathetic attempt to cancel Jordan Peterson
There was a time when publishers had to battle with external forces for their right to publish controversial authors. It…
Have Boris and Starmer worked out each other's weaknesses?
Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to use his Prime Minister’s Questions to build a narrative about the government’s lack of…
Could Saudia Arabia and Pakistan soon recognise Israel?
Mohammed bin Salman and Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting – albeit deniedby Riyadh – shows it is surely only a matter of time before…
Why Boris should go for no deal
Boris Johnson has negotiated his way into a corner. With the naïve view that the EU would eventually buckle and…
Rise of the swamp creatures
It started a few weeks before Election Day. With the polling data almost universally showing that Joe Biden would win…
The kids are not on the right
There are still questions hanging over the 2020 election. Not the ones Rudy Giuliani and his team are posing about…
Letter from the online trenches
November 7, 2020 To my dear parents, Victory. Uttering the word feels strange after four long years of battle. But…
Republicans should make AOC House Speaker
Republicans are currently on track to end up with 214 seats in the House of Representatives in January. As of…
Biden would be a fool to reverse Trump's foreign policy wins
‘We’re going to be back in the game,’ our presumptive and somewhat previous new president tells us. ‘It’s not America…
Arab states are fighting back against Turkey’s ‘neo-Ottomanism’
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seems determined to reinvent the secular Muslim country he inherited as a sort of Sunni Iranian ‘Mini-Me’:…
Did Trump just concede?
President Trump said Monday in a tweet that his administration is willing to start the formal transition of power to…
The amazing blandness of Joe Biden’s foreign policy team
What does a Joe Biden presidency mean? We all know the answer. It means that tired but nice-sounding clichés about…
Was Covid beginning to peak before the second lockdown?
‘I don’t think that word means what you think it means,’ says the Spaniard Inigo Montoya in the film The…
Criminal gangs are making billions from fake medical supplies during COVID
While it’s great news that Pfizer, BioNTech, AstraZeneca and other pharmaceutical companies are developing vaccines to prevent people from getting…
The mullah report: is Biden bringing back the Iran Deal?
‘We’re going to be back in the game,’ our presumptive and somewhat previous new president tells us. ‘It’s not America…
The urgent case for voting reform
By now, The Spectator knows better than to say that Donald Trump has been definitively beaten. The President’s final defeat…
Donald Trump is now the Republican party's kingmaker
As Donald Trump continues to insist that he actually won the 2020 presidential election, speculation has grown about how the…
What if Thatcher won the 1990 leadership challenge?
Thirty years ago today, Margaret Thatcher was in 10 Downing Street. For almost eleven and a half years, it had…
The mystery of Melania Trump
Melania Trump should be a feminist icon. She is determined and self-assured. Despite being one of the most criticized women…
