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Abolish the police. Then what?
One of the best rules of thumb to emerge from systems theory is Stafford Beer’s famous statement: the purpose of…
Trump’s German troop withdrawal will hurt America
Tensions between Germany and the United States have increased considerably since Donald Trump became President. Trump has repeatedly criticized Berlin…
Is George Bush brave enough to tell voters to back Biden?
For an instant, it looked as if George W. Bush might be an example of integrity all who believe in liberal…
Remember when Joe Biden gave a eulogy for Strom Thurmond?
Biden did not attend the private funeral and burial of George Floyd today. Instead, Biden recorded a video to be…
How China's fishermen are impoverishing Africa
If Donald Trump didn’t have other things on his mind, here is a story that would make even him an…
Britain shouldn't treat Chinese students as Communist agents
Universities in the West can roll over too easily for the Chinese Communist Party. Jesus College, Cambridge, has been a…
Cuomo and de Blasio’s unearned lap of honor
After weeks of state-mandated lockdown, thousands of preventable nursing home deaths and days of angry protests and looting, New York…
Rod Rosenstein’s devastating admissions
Rod Rosenstein’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee was quiet, calm, almost bemused. But the tale he told was devastating…
Why is the Labour left so averse to Winston Churchill?
It has become a ritual almost as traditional as the Changing of the Guard. During a weekend of mostly peaceful…
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…
