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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…
John Bolton is a greedy hack
Bolton is a peculiar and stubborn man – you can tell that from his moustache. He’s also a greedy hack.…
The five most explosive Trump claims in Bolton's new book
Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has made a series of bombshell revelations in a new tell-all biography. Claims…
Will India finally learn its lesson on China?
Clashes between Indian and Chinese troops are shocking but nothing new. For almost twenty days, in the autumn of 1962, a…
Footballers should get to their feet – not 'take the knee'
It’s hard to argue that English football is chronically racist. Unlike in many boardrooms up and down Britain, there are…
Will Trump's 'Great American Comeback' work?
There’s no spinning it: if the U.S. presidential election were held today, it is highly unlikely Donald Trump would win…
Black mass: the Georgetown Lecture Fund’s odd diversity campaign
The New York Times’s opinion editor resigned in disgrace earlier this month following a newsroom revolt over the publication of…
The ill-timed revelations of John Bolton
It’s starting to look as though the question isn’t who Donald Trump asked to assist him in his 2020 bid…
Keir Starmer has no idea how to use normal language
A testy, ill-tempered PMQs. Sir Keir Starmer began by welcoming the anti-viral breakthrough achieved by British scientists. He got an…
Boris should keep calm and ignore the polls
When those words and phrases of the year lists come out there is bound to be a place in them…
Is this the real reason Sweden didn't lockdown?
Anders Tegnell is either a hero or villain, depending on whether you think Sweden’s approach to Covid-19 has saved the…
Macron is trying to bathe in de Gaulle’s glory. It won't work
Emmanuel Macron never misses an historical opportunity to emblazon his banner. One is reminded of the nineteenth century diplomat Talleyrand…
Is dexamethasone a major Covid breakthrough?
Just how a big a deal is today’s announcement that the steroid anti-inflammatory drug Dexamethasone has been shown to be…
Have the protests proved that Covid-19 risks are being vastly exaggerated?
By now, we ought to be seeing some evidence of increasing Covid-19 cases from the mass protests. The fact we are…
What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it
How do you navigate conversations with people when the default assumption is that you’re a racist? What do you do…
The Biden factor is difficult to calculate
The final stage of the election campaign and its result will depend on four factors: management of the balance between…
Defend the police
President Trump is signing an executive order today on police reform. The order, while relatively toothless, does one important thing:…
