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Sales of The Spectator surge towards 100,000

12 October 2020 6:00 pm

When The Spectator returned furlough money during lockdown, we set ourselves a new target. Rather than take taxpayer subsidy, we’d try…

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Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist

12 October 2020 3:16 am

Seattle In Max Frisch’s 1953 absurdist play The Fire Raisers, a well-off family in an unnamed town invites a man…

Were there any links between Cambridge Analytica, Russia and Brexit?

11 October 2020 8:45 pm

In July 2018, Elizabeth Denham – the woman in charge of enforcing the UK’s laws on data protection – appeared…

Covid has not ‘overwhelmed’ French hospitals — yet

10 October 2020 6:00 pm

Britain is often said to be two weeks behind France in the new Covid wave — so how bad are…

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Retire the Commission on Presidential Debates

10 October 2020 8:38 am

Two-hundred-and-thirty-three. That is the combined age of the three co-chairs of the Commission on Presidential Debates, an organization which has…

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The Democratic art of magical thinking

10 October 2020 3:42 am

I should clear up one thing straight away. I do not believe that Joe Biden is guilty of magical thinking.…

Rishi lays the groundwork for tougher Covid restrictions

10 October 2020 3:22 am

There was a time when the announcement of new Treasury spending tended to spell good news. However, these days it…

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Duty of care: the trouble with America’s nursing homes

10 October 2020 2:51 am

We can debate the value of sacrificing normal life to COVID-19. Personally I think the measures are increasingly destructive —…

Germany's second wave puts an end to the party

9 October 2020 10:57 pm

Berlin’s partygoers are being told to stay at home by health experts and politicians amid rising new coronavirus cases. Researchers say that clubs and restaurants have…

The Covid testing trap

9 October 2020 9:59 pm

We are in a time where money has lost meaning and value, so perhaps the £10 billion plus spent on…

It's time to ban puberty blockers for children

9 October 2020 6:37 pm

A ground-breaking case in the High Court will decide this week whether the UK’s only gender identity development service (GIDS)…

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COVID-positive president won’t debate online

9 October 2020 6:00 pm

The droplets had barely settled after Wednesday’s vice presidential debate when next week’s head-to-head between Donald Trump and Joe Biden…

The collapse of the Cambridge Analytica conspiracy theory

9 October 2020 4:50 am

So there you have it. Cambridge Analytica was ‘not involved’ in the 2016 EU referendum. The digital marketing firm that…

Kamala Harris forgot who she was debating

9 October 2020 2:42 am

Perhaps Senator Kamala Harris would have performed better last night if she had remembered who she was debating. It was…

Could local lockdowns cost Boris Johnson the north?

9 October 2020 1:45 am

When the lockdown tiers are announced, it is inevitable that huge swathes of the north will be under much tighter…

The conflict that could spark a war

9 October 2020 1:35 am

History repeats itself — but sometimes in reverse. Only a pessimist would have predicted a global pandemic followed by a…

The terror threat inside our prisons

8 October 2020 9:28 pm

Later today, two men will be sentenced for their part in the attempted murder of a prison officer at high…

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Why Harris vs Pence could be 2020’s most significant debate

8 October 2020 8:22 pm

‘Who am I? Why am I here?’ That was how Vice Admiral James Stockdale began the 1992 televised vice-presidential debate.…

What was missing from the vice presidential debate

8 October 2020 5:41 pm

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris is a former prosecutor. Vice President Mike Pence is a career politician. The debate between…

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Pence takes Harris to the cleaners in VP debate

8 October 2020 2:19 pm

Vice President Mike Pence emerged from the 2020 vice presidential debate Wednesday night with a sound victory over challenger Sen.…

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Here’s what to expect from VP Pence at tonight’s debate

8 October 2020 6:34 am

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris will square off in Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate in Salt Lake…

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The hostages’ president

8 October 2020 6:06 am

President Trump has tweeted that, among other things he’s best at, he is ‘the greatest hostage negotiator in the history…

Nicola Sturgeon's Covid prohibition

8 October 2020 3:35 am

So now we know the threshold at which Nicola Sturgeon pulls the trigger. If the number of daily hospital admissions…

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Our overstimulated president

8 October 2020 2:01 am

Is Donald Trump feeling overstimulated? First he scorned stimulus talks with the Democrats, tweeting on Tuesday afternoon that he was…

Macron's fight with the far-left over extremism

7 October 2020 10:05 pm

Emmanuel Macron’s bold declaration last Friday that the Republic will eradicate Islamic extremism appeared to draw a swift response in…