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Teddy Roosevelt saw this mob coming
So now they have come for Teddy Roosevelt. The large bronze statue of TR on horseback, flanked by a black…
Labour’s path to victory lies in destroying the Lib Dems
It has become a truism that there are not enough liberal voters to get Labour a majority at the next…
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Self-righteous vandals
Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so…
The conservative legal movement is dead
Imagine if Sonia Sotomayor, once she got on the Supreme Court, started ruling like Clarence Thomas. I know, I know,…
Is Attlee really more worthy than Churchill?
As the toxic furore over statues continues, a number of left-wingers yearn to see the monument to Winston Churchill in…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Vladimir Putin’s history fetish
Russia, the old joke goes, has long been a country with an unpredictable past. On September 22, 1939, for instance,…
What would Thatcher do?
No one seems to think Boris Johnson has handled this crisis particularly well. But who might have done a better…
Gracious China allows athletes to speak out on social issues again
Even after China unleashed a viral pandemic on the planet, crashing the world economy and killing thousands, we all find…
Here’s some left-wing stuff we can cancel, too
‘What do we burn apart from witches?’ ‘More witches!’ A pitchfork-and-iPhone-wielding diversity mob is running amok in major metropolitan areas…
Insects of the hour
Did you go to college? If so, then it is overwhelmingly likely that you have been the recipient of a…
Conservatives talk about cancel culture too much
If you are on the right I suspect you have heard leftists saying something like this: ‘Thousands of people are…
Juneteenth is Trump’s chance to win in November
Of course June 19 should be a federal holiday. It’s not just the right thing to do: it’s also the…
Don’t defund the police: reform them
‘Nothing works if public space is unsafe,’ says the respected urban sociologist Patrick Sharkey. The ‘Defund the Police’ initiative demands…
Can’t stand free speech? You’re fired!
Since the whole world is in crisis, a crisis in the world of publishing might seem like a niche issue.…
Dexamethasone isn't a coronavirus breakthrough
It’s welcome news, of course, that dexamethasone can reduce mortality in people with moderate to severe respiratory complications due to…
Churchill once challenged BBC intolerance
Winston Churchill: hero or villain? That was the question the BBC asked on its website on 10 June. It caused…
Did slavery really make Britain rich?
‘It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade’, said London’s mayor Sadiq Khan.…
The full story of the ‘second wave’
Has the second wave of COVID-19 arrived? Or is it time to fully reopen the country? It depends where you…
Is Macron Boris's best friend now?
If Emmanuel Macron is intending to extract a pound of flesh from the United Kingdom as the price of Brexit,…
I will not be silent
After the horrible death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I started to grow increasingly uncomfortable by what I saw. I…
Could British farmers block a UK-US trade deal – and what does it mean for Oz?
Will the UK agree a trade deal with the US? Such an agreement has long been cited by Leave campaigners…
Watch: Andrew Neil on why The Spectator is returning furlough money
Earlier this month, The Spectator‘s chairman Andrew Neil announced that we would be handing back the government furlough money. He…
Is this the deal that could break the Brexit deadlock?
Trade talks between the UK and the EU are in a better place than they have been at any point…
