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The advert that reveals China's problem with race

16 September 2020 4:39 pm

After the Hong Kong protests, America’s Black Lives Matter protests were like manna from heaven for Beijing. Now Chinese politicians could point…

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Is liberalism really a mental illness?

16 September 2020 9:22 am

Conservative pundits like Michael Savage and Mark Dice like to ruffle feathers by claiming that liberalism is a mental disorder.…

A tighter lockdown could be two weeks away

16 September 2020 4:53 am

Significant further restrictions on our freedom to mix with people, in social or work settings, could be introduced in a…

J.K. Rowling's latest novel isn't 'transphobic'

16 September 2020 2:10 am

The object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does…

The thinking behind Pompeo's Middle East mission

16 September 2020 2:02 am

Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming Democratic…

Ankara's aggression has spurred a most unlikely pact

16 September 2020 12:07 am

The monumental accords being signed in Washington between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain represent a new era in Israeli peacemaking.…

Are we becoming immune to the vaccine message?

15 September 2020 8:00 pm

Much hope is being pinned to a vaccine as our route out of this Covid nightmare. But even if one…

Tory faith in Boris is wavering

15 September 2020 7:37 pm

Having won that 80 seat majority for his party in December, it is really quite an achievement by Boris Johnson…

Farage could still come back to haunt the Tories on Brexit

15 September 2020 4:15 pm

Some Tory MPs are worried about a strategy that the party is apparently seriously considering adopting at the next general…

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The Democrats after Biden

15 September 2020 7:47 am

There’s been lots of speculation, even in The Spectator, about the direction of the Republican party after Trump. But less…

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Pompeo: Biden will give ‘hundreds of billions of dollars to a theocratic, corrupt regime’

15 September 2020 6:50 am

Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming…

Has Boris done enough to halt the Tory rebellion?

15 September 2020 2:27 am

Boris Johnson has just been speaking in the Commons as the government tries to quell the Tory revolt over the…

What David Attenborough's 'Extinction: The Facts' didn't tell you

15 September 2020 1:29 am

It was only a matter of time before Covid-19 got swept up into the wider narrative of humans facing impending…

Why didn't the EU punish Germany when it broke international law?

14 September 2020 11:57 pm

Boris Johnson’s proposal to break international law ‘in a specific and limited way’ has sparked uproar. But do you remember…

Meet Japan's new PM – installed by a grey coup of party insiders

14 September 2020 11:48 pm

There’s a good chance that nothing that occurs in the new Japanese PM’s tenure will be nearly as interesting as how…

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Does Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?

14 September 2020 10:57 pm

Should Donald Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? So far the President has notched up two nominations in a…

Je Suis Charlie and the legacy of jihadism

14 September 2020 7:22 pm

‘You have insulted the prophet – we are al-Qaida Yemen.’ These words, terrifying yet clichéd, were spat at a female…

Geoffrey Cox: I’m a Brexiteer to my core but can’t support Boris’s Bill.

14 September 2020 7:58 am

When Geoffrey Cox was Theresa May’s Attorney General it was his refusal to go give his blessing to her Brexit…

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Why I’m not predicting a Biden blowout

14 September 2020 7:35 am

In 2016, I was one of the very few people who publicly stated the night before the election that, despite…

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Delayed football season could cost Big Ten, says Ohio AG

14 September 2020 2:38 am

Are you ready for some football? The Big Ten college football conference may be gearing up soon — according to…

What I learnt as an Oxford vaccine guinea pig

13 September 2020 4:04 pm

Was the Oxford vaccine trial paused? Mine wasn’t. I signed up for it last week, in the 55 to 69-year-old…

The BBC has given up properly reporting on China

13 September 2020 4:00 pm

Totalitarian powers mostly want foreign journalists to go, but sometimes they want them to stay. China recently detained Michael Smith…

Boris will regret a no-deal Brexit

12 September 2020 5:01 pm

Much has been said about the prospect of no deal over the past few days – the economics, arguments over…

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What Bahrain’s deal with Israel really means

12 September 2020 12:19 pm

On September 15, representatives from the oil-rich Kingdom of Bahrain will meet Israeli leaders at the White House to sign…

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Antifa for Biden

12 September 2020 4:28 am

Hey folks, it’s me, your friendly neighborhood antifa ringleader. You may recognize me from such news clips as ‘Small group…