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China has taken control of Hong Kong's legislature
Hong Kong’s legislature has today moved one step closer to becoming a local branch of the Chinese Communist Party, after…
A third of Muslim voters backed Trump. Why?
Donald Trump’s defeat in the election was widely predicted. What was less anticipated was the level of support Trump received…
Did Brexit boost Britain’s vaccine deal?
The government’s successful deal to secure 40 million shots of Pfizer’s vaccine is a political coup in more ways than…
Keir Starmer should welcome a Labour party split
‘A split party will be doomed to defeat,’ says Len McCluskey, with a hint of threat. The left of Labour…
Three key questions on the Pfizer Covid vaccine
News that the Pfizer vaccine is 90 per cent effective has sparked a number of questions about the prospect of…
Make America Great Again Again: Prepare for Trump 2024
Imagine Donald Trump acknowledging that he lost the election and placing a formal concession call to Joe Biden. Now imagine…
The wars go on
America’s longest war has just entered its 20th year. The US invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to overthrow the Taliban…
Biden’s NeverTrump transition
Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t yet been officially certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election and the…
The unbearable niceness of Canadians is driving us to destruction
While Americans spent last week panicking about the state of their democracy, north of the border we were having a…
Pfizer's Covid vaccine is a victory for the free market
There are still safety trials to be completed. Data has to be collected, checked, double-checked, and then peer-reviewed. And we…
The need to concede
The political and emotional climax of US presidential elections comes when the losing candidate, accompanied by a teary spouse, tersely…
In praise of Big Pharma
In the last decade, the mega corporation has taken a lot of stick from just about everyone. But hold on.…
Pfizer U-turns at warp speed
Pfizer announced Monday that a coronavirus vaccine the company was working on had proven to be 90 percent effective at…
The Democrats’ civil war begins
There is, as our presumptive and somewhat presumptuous President Malaprop told us on Sunday, a time to plant and a…
Will the Pfizer vaccine live up to the hype?
So is this the big turning point? Markets certainly seem to think so. No sooner had news broken that the…
The cowardice of an ‘anti-fascist’ video game company
Anti-fascism isn’t a game. You can’t preen yourself and say you oppose dictatorship and the power of the mob, then…
Why do American journalists take Trump so seriously?
You don’t need to know any more about Stephen Colbert than that he is an American political broadcaster and satirist…
The collapse of American progressivism
In the early hours of Wednesday, with Joe Biden appearing to trail Donald Trump in the key states of Michigan…
How will the Trump presidency end?
Donald Trump will not go quietly into the good night. In fact, he seems determined to leave the office with…
Deplorables don’t riot
For months, the media has warned us that a narrow Joe Biden victory in the presidential election could lead to…
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: 1948-2020
The former chief rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, died yesterday at the age of 72. In an article for The Spectator, republished here, he wrote…
Joe Biden wins the election
Four days after a (much closer than predicted) election, American networks have called the race for Joe Biden, who has secured more…
Trump should concede — with a caveat
The networks have made official what seemed to have occurred when Georgia flipped from red to blue: Joe Biden won…
The Republicans’ nightmare in Georgia
Joe Biden is the President-elect. President Trump, however, at the time of writing, continues to dig in. With lawsuits filed in…
Liberté! An open letter by 200 French lawyers protesting against lockdown
After saying there was ‘no question of lockdown’, Emmanuel Macron has announced what many feared: the implementation of a new…
