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How long can No. 10's quarantine policy survive?
Today marks the start of the government’s coronavirus quarantine policy with those arriving into the UK told to self-isolate for…
Watch: Tory MPs clean Churchill’s statue
Yesterday, protestors at a Black Lives Matter demo in London vandalised the statue of Winston Churchill which stands in Parliament…
The Spectator, war and slavery: a note on our history
In her article about the point of protest, Tali Fraser mentions the support of Manchester in the 1860s for the…
Are we heading for a second peak?
Are we going to see a dreaded second spike in coronavirus cases? The question has a new poignancy after a…
Mob justice is no justice
It doesn’t matter how good your intentions are, it’s your process that counts. The push to topple a statue of…
JK Rowling and the road to terfdom
The tale of JK Rowling, finally revealed as a modern-day witch guilty of wickedness over sex and gender, is one…
Would Joe Biden defund the police?
Thanks to the nature of digital media, the last 10 days can be seen in entirely different ways. On one…
What the response to London's young graffiti cleaners reveals
Further Black Lives Matter protests took place yesterday in the UK, in response to the death of a man at…
What is it about Chinese totalitarianism that makes clever people so silly?
There is something about Chinese totalitarianism which brings out the silliness of many clever people. I suspect it is to…
What Bibi wants to do in the West Bank is not annexation
Fifty-three years ago today, Israel was fighting for its survival. In a larger sense, that doesn’t make it all that…
Why I joined today's protest
The protest in Manchester today was supposed to be static and socially distanced. While that may not have worked out…
The march of progressive censorship
It’s official: criticising Black Lives Matter is now a sackable offence, even here in the British Isles, thousands of miles…
Boris Johnson needs to get a grip
It’s pointless to deny that the government is currently performing poorly across a wide range of fronts – and I…
Science, doubt and the ‘second wave’ of Covid
In taking a position on an issue, most of us like to think that we accumulate evidence, consider the pros…
Can Shinzo Abe's Covid bung save the Japanese PM?
I experienced a novel, if fleeting, sensation last week when I was struck with a powerful urge to vote for…
Sources: New York Times not telling the truth about Tom Cotton op-ed
The revolution is eating itself at the New York Times. After the Times ran Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for using the National Guard…
America’s 2.5 million jobs miracle
The US economy created 2.5 million jobs last month — the biggest monthly jobs gain since records began a century…
Don’t compare America’s riots to Hong Kong
As soon as the unrest began in Minneapolis, the inevitable comparisons with Hong Kong began. We saw throngs of masked…
Virtue-signaling isn’t courage
It is completely understandable for African Americans to be outraged at yet another death of a black man by overly…
New study suggests Covid infections were falling before lockdown
When lockdown was first imposed, there was little science to base it on. The virus was assumed to be growing…
The civil war inside the New York Times
After the New York Times published an op-ed written by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton – calling for the military to be…
Hungary offers a lesson in crying wolf on 'transphobia'
Transphobia is a word thrown around far too easily. But Hungary’s move to end legal recognition of trans people really is something to…
Is Black Lives Matter a religion for woke white people?
The most memorable footage of the Black Lives Matter protests, and perhaps the creepiest, doesn’t capture any acts of violence,…
The creeping nihilism of the American left
The twin temptations of American liberalism are to radical excess and conservative stasis. Because liberalism is a practical philosophy of…
What's the truth about coronavirus and North Korea?
South Korea is one of the world’s success stories for tackling coronavirus and president Moon Jae-in’s approval ratings have soared…
