America
For all its absurdity, it delivers the goods: BBC2's Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America reviewed
In the latest episode of Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America, Louis asked a rapper called Broke Baby if ‘it’s important to…
Would Trump have prevented the crisis in Ukraine?
‘I know Vladimir Putin very well,’ said Donald Trump yesterday, speaking of the Ukraine crisis, ‘he would have never done…
Our monetary bubble is about to burst
OK, I finally watched Netflix’s Don’t Look Up. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it — especially before its effective subtitle for us…
P.J. O’Rourke 1947 — 2022
The great American journalist and satirist P J O’Rourke has died. He contributed a number of articles to The Spectator…
The Ukraine crisis has united the West
There has been a subtle change of tone from Joe Biden and Boris Johnson about the likelihood of a Russian…
San Francisco is decaying
During the pandemic, a growing number of people in floridly psychotic states screamed obscenities at invisible enemies, or at my…
Is Britain heading for an opioid crisis?
Almost everyone here that I’ve spoken to about it assumes that the opioid crisis in the United States won’t ever…
Ukraine's plight paints a bleak vision of Europe's future
It is tempting to view Vladimir Putin as a Cold War relic: a former KGB officer who hasn’t got over the…
Kamala Harris and the problem of affirmative action
In lauding Joe Biden’s promise to fill the upcoming vacancy on the US Supreme Court with a black woman, last…
Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?
President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…
This government’s greatest failure is economic
‘The main job of a government is to ensure that the economics don’t go wrong.’ So argued an economist friend…
The phoney war: what’s really going on between Boris and Putin
It suits both Boris and Putin to pretend that Russia may invade Ukraine
Read: Tucker Carlson on Ukraine, ethno-nationalism and M&Ms
This week, Tucker Carlson spoke to Freddy Gray on the latest episode of Spectator TV. You can watch their conversation…
No one should celebrate the decline of America
Where is America? Like an old friend who hasn’t been in touch for years, you wonder if its silence is…
Don’t bet on interest rates rising
So is this really it: the end of the era of virtually zero interest rates? There was a marked pullback…
Portrait of the week: Saving Big Dog, scrapping the licence fee and tsunami hits Tonga
Home Sue Gray, Second Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, having been asked by Boris Johnson to look into accusations…
Joe Biden’s Civil War re-enactment
We can’t blame American progressives for yearning to relive the civil rights movement. Those were heady days. Opposition to segregation…
Does the world want America ‘back’?
American foreign-policy strategists used to promulgate doctrines. Now they dream up slogans. ‘America is back’ is the jingle under which…
Inside Joe Biden’s disastrous negotiations with Iran
One of the West’s great foreign policy failures of 2021 was the Iran nuclear negotiations, which remained bitterly unresolved as…
Will Trump's pro-vaccine stance prove his undoing?
Donald Trump famously boasted that he could ‘stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody’ and still not lose voters. That…
My snogging spat with Boris
I have not given up on my Build Back Boris campaign, which is the most pressing concern facing the UK.…
Jussie Smollett and the rise of American hate hoaxing
So Jussie Smollett, the world’s most notorious hate hoaxer, has at last been found guilty of lying to the police. …
Abortion rights: the cracks are showing in Roe v. Wade
Crowds gathered outside of the Supreme Court this week as the Court prepared to hear arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson…
Biden is losing America
Plummeting polls are sending a clear message to the Biden administration, but the President is deaf, dumb and blind to…
Kyle Rittenhouse and the failure of the American state
Kyle Rittenhouse is innocent. We knew that anyway, but the simple fact of something being true in no way guarantees…
