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Inside Boris Johnson's Brexit call with Tory MPs
This evening Boris Johnson used a video call to address Conservative MPs following unease over No. 10’s Brexit tactics. With…
Leading vs lying
At his short Thursday news briefing, President Trump laid out the many successes that the United States has enjoyed in…
Why a Covid vaccine won't be a ‘get out of jail’ card
When Covid-19 vaccines arrive, are people going to agree to have them? Most of the world’s advanced economies have chosen…
What the hell happened to Bob Woodward?
Famed reporter Bob Woodward is dropping his new book about President Trump, Rage, next week. Woodward has already leaked the…
Boris Johnson can't afford many more weeks like this one
Boris Johnson will address his MPs tonight – and they are in need of some soothing. This week has strained relations…
Want to 'save the Earth'? Buy the Guardian
Nothing like a bit of alarmism to flog a few newspapers. In an apparent bid to capitalise off the Extinction…
What will happen in the debates?
From late September through to mid-October, Americans will get to watch Donald Trump and Joe Biden debate three times. Mike…
UK agrees 'historic' trade deal with Japan
The UK and Japan have this morning agreed a new free trade deal between the two countries. With International Trade Secretary…
Is the British Library really a 'great symbol of British imperialism'?
Architects are taught during training of the ‘looks like’ trap: just because a building resembles another building – or indeed…
Why university isn't for me
‘So, what uni are you going to?’ It’s a question sixth form students are often asked. But for me, the…
In defence of Boris's 'Rule of Six'
It wasn’t supposed to be like this, was it? Six months after the imposition of lockdown, we were meant to…
People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why
The national media is now less trusted than President Trump to provide accurate information and analysis about COVID-19, according to…
It's hard to see a way through the Brexit deadlock
The drama has ramped up again in the Brexit talks. At today’s meeting of the Joint Committee on the Northern…
No, Boris isn't breaching the rule of law. Here's why
Does the government threaten the ‘rule of law’ by asking parliament to vote its way out of a Brexit treaty?…
The EU’s bizarre new climate change targets
In recent years, governments have increasingly opted to legislate to ensure they do the things they say they are going…
Introducing Spectator TV, with Andrew Neil
Last week, we launched Spectator TV with The Week in 60 Minutes. Hosted by Andrew Neil and featuring James Forsyth,…
Boris's latest coronavirus crackdown is a sign of things to come
Boris Johnson confirmed in his coronavirus press conference yesterday that gatherings will be restricted to a maximum of six people from Monday onwards.…
The competing theories that will decide Brexit
One thing is keeping the temperature among Tory MPs in check: the government’s poll lead. It’s hard to claim that…
India and China are on a path to war
The foreign ministers of China and India, Wang Yi and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, will meet today on the sidelines of a…
Could the Lords reject Boris’s Brexit bill?
A senior Tory tells me the House of Lords will turn the Salisbury-Addison convention – which says the upper house…
Hollywood’s transrace hypocrisy
It is an article of fashionable faith that genetic differences in sex are meaningless and malleable, but genetic differences in…
The Oscars' woke McCarthyism is a step too far
Normally the best response to political correctness at the Oscars is to laugh at it. Whether it’s Lady Gaga singing…
Starmer needs more than just competence
Keir Starmer went back to what he most enjoys at Prime Minister’s Questions: calling the government incompetent and demanding that…
Pakistan's lockdown gamble appears to have paid off
Pakistan’s stock exchange isn’t typically seen as one of the world’s best, but in recent weeks it has outperformed almost…
Oxford's vaccine delay has thrown the global race wide open
Even a politician as tenaciously optimistic as Matt Hancock was struggling to put any positive spin on it: the world…
