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When piracy meets protest
Sometimes there are advantages to being ill-informed. Knowing embarrassingly little about why 30 Greenpeace activists were jailed in Russia in…
Portrait of the Week: Farage returns, Abbott reselected and Trump guilty
Home Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton.…
Trump’s indictment and the trouble with the law
The latest charges against Donald Trump will do nothing to deter his many supporters within the Republican party. On the…
What Washington was like during the Cuban Missile Crisis (2002)
On 27 October 1962, US Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stepped out of crisis meetings and looked up at the sky.…
Opec will regret taking on the US
Production will be cut. Supplies to the rest of the world will be curbed. And inflation will rise just a…
Nato is no longer 'brain dead'
Finland and Sweden will be formally invited to join Nato today. Them joining the alliance will bolster Nato’s presence in the…
Why Biden’s inflation plan will fail
It sounded impressive at the time. On the last day of May, a whole ten days ago, president Biden laid…
Lionel Shriver on mass shootings, gun control and American carnage
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
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?
‘I want your point of view, Joe,’ Barack Obama once told his vice-president Joe Biden. ‘I just want it in…
Kamala invades Poland
You can tell that the Biden administration is getting serious. They have unleashed their ultimate weapon, cackle diplomacy. The warhead is…
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…
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.…
India is going to keep polluting. They can thank China
Mumbai India is the last major global polluter to set a date to go carbon neutral. In a surprise announcement…
Colin Powell: A great man – and a failure
My memory of Colin Powell feels personal, even though we were 6000 miles apart at the time. I was in…
No, Biden didn't just snub Brexit Britain
For European Union enthusiasts, the ‘trade deal with America’ has joined ‘£350 million pledge on a bus’ as one of…
Biden is losing Nato
The forming of the Australia-UK-US (Aukus) military alliance in the Pacific shows how everything Trump can say, Biden can do.…
Afghanistan and the end of the American hegemony
We used to sneer at the way the Russians were chased out of Afghanistan by a ragtag of mujaheddin armed…
The real reason Biden was prepared to let Kabul fall
The speed of the Taliban’s advance, culminating in Sunday’s capture of Kabul, has been widely put forward as proof that…
The China challenge has no precedent
The US has never been more worried by the rise of China than it is today. In my Times column…
Why the Biden-Putin summit wasn't a waste of time
The meeting between U.S. president Joe Biden and Russian president Vladimir Putin in Geneva started cordially enough. A quick handshake, toothy smiles…
Can Biden bring relations with Russia back from the brink?
Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a depressing assessment on the state of U.S.-Russia relations earlier this month. While holding…
Iran’s missile diplomacy
It’s a time for delivering messages in the Middle East, where messages rarely come without their near constant attendant: violence.…
What will Joe Biden do about North Korea?
Kim Jong-un marked the new year by treating North Koreans to several days of lengthy speeches followed by a display…
Joe Biden's Republican Convention
Joe Biden’s range of emotional expression has narrowed with age – when he wants to convey feeling now, he shouts.…
