Biden

Is America fit to lead the West?

29 June 2024 4:00 pm

Foreign policy rarely plays a significant role in a US presidential election. Domestic issues, the economy, money in the pocket,…

Will Michelle Obama run? The runners and riders to replace Joe Biden

29 June 2024 3:31 am

After a lamentable performance in Thursday’s debate, much of the Democrat press corps is demanding that Joe Biden step aside.…

After last night, nobody believes in Joe Biden

28 June 2024 7:07 pm

‘I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he knows what he…

‘That was painful’: CNN mourns Biden implosion

28 June 2024 6:33 pm

Oh dear. The Democrats are reeling from Joe Biden’s disastrous performance in the first presidential debate of the election (the…

Why are Joe Biden’s poll numbers improving?

21 June 2024 7:31 pm

After several weeks of almost daily embarrassing senior moments on the campaign trail, Joe Biden is somehow improving in the…

Is Jill Biden calling the Nato leadership shots?

20 May 2023 8:16 pm

Ben Wallace has confirmed the worst-kept secret in Westminster: he’s the likely UK candidate for the Secretary General of Nato.…

Will Lula’s Brazil turn away from the West?

14 February 2023 2:21 am

Joe Biden has promised to bring Brazil and America closer together. ‘Both of our democracies have been tested of late’,…

The US knows the main threat is China

22 October 2022 4:00 pm

China’s President Xi Jinping opened the CCP’s 20th party congress by doubling down on four key issues: no let up…

Joe Biden has jolted China

17 October 2022 6:45 pm

The chip war between China and America is heating up, with an increasingly assertive Joe Biden battling with Xi Jinping as…

Does Joe Biden know what ‘super-wealthy’ Americans pay in tax?

16 October 2022 7:30 pm

Joe Biden, ice cream in hand as so often, yesterday pronounced on Liz Truss’s tax reform disaster. ‘I wasn’t the…

The problem with Biden's student debt plan

25 August 2022 6:02 am

In Europe it is handouts to help pay our energy bills – even for people who could easily afford to…

Shouldn't we feel sorry for Hunter Biden?

16 July 2022 9:00 am

Scandal is such a wonderful driver of human emotions. Just think of the number of things you get to feel…

Lionel Shriver on mass shootings, gun control and American carnage

30 May 2022 1:18 am

This is an edited transcript of a conversation between Freddy Gray and Lionel Shriver on The Spectator’s Americano podcast, which you…

The Biden Bust is here

29 April 2022 1:25 am

A wave of government spending would reboot the economy. Fairer taxes would pay for restored infrastructure. Skills would be improved,…

Could Biden gaffe us into world war three?

27 March 2022 9:19 pm

‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…

Was Biden's chemical weapons threat a gaffe?

25 March 2022 11:56 pm

Did Joe Biden mean to threaten Russia with a chemical weapons attack? That seemed to be what he implied at…

Why is Biden copying Obama's mistakes with Iran?

23 March 2022 6:00 pm

There was a picture taken today that says more than just a thousand words. The photograph was snapped in Sharm…

Why was the Hunter Biden laptop story covered up?

18 March 2022 7:17 pm

It’s now a familiar pattern – a sensational news story is dismissed by serious journalists as bogus right-wing agitprop. You’d…

Kamala invades Poland

11 March 2022 3:04 am

You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is…

Why would the Saudis bail out Biden?

10 March 2022 4:47 am

Is Saudi Arabia shunning Washington? Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly been refusing to phone Joe Biden, who wants the kingdom to…

Why the silence over Biden's links with Ukraine?

23 February 2022 6:28 pm

‘He has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.’ So…

Putin must look at the West and laugh

23 February 2022 6:15 am

Whatever the West’s response to Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s sovereignty, the crisis demonstrates the limitations of western politics and policy…

The Ukraine crisis has united the West

15 February 2022 7:38 am

There has been a subtle change of tone from Joe Biden and Boris Johnson about the likelihood of a Russian…

What really happens if Russia invades Ukraine?

15 February 2022 1:47 am

Russia will pay an enormous price if it invades Ukraine, whether it goes for the whole country or only the…

Are Kamala Harris's days as Veep numbered?

1 February 2022 3:48 am

President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…