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The quiet desperation of Macron’s Greenland visit
Emmanuel Macron spent his Sunday in Greenland on what can best be described as an anti-Trump visit. The French president…
How likely is regime change in Iran now?
The clue is in the name of Israel’s operation. ‘Operation Rising Lion’ is a direct reference to the Pahlavi flag used by…
The danger of recognising a Palestinian state
As Western leaders prepare to gather in New York this week to discuss international recognition of a Palestinian state, a…
America’s next president must study Trump’s golden escalator ride
On June 16, 2015, Donald Trump descended a golden escalator in Trump Tower and into political history. The press corps…
Does the BBC doubt Iran wanted a nuke?
I don’t monitor this stuff all the time. It would be soul destroying. All that happens is that I tune…
Why Russia wants war between Israel and Iran
Israel’s assault on Iran represents a double helping of good news for the Kremlin. Years of two-track diplomacy have allowed…
Dominic Cummings has run out of answers
On Wednesday, The Spectator dispatched me to Dominic Cummings’s Pharos lecture in Oxford. Packed into the Sheldonian theatre was an…
Sunday shows round-up: Reeves weighs in on Israel
Rachel Reeves: ‘Israel has every right to defend itself’ In a major escalation of conflict in the Middle East, Israel…
Bibi has run rings around Trump
Donald Trump likes to see himself as the Great Negotiator but on this occasion Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, appears…
What will Iran do next?
‘They are scared. You can hear it in their voices,’ someone wrote to me on Friday from Tehran. And in…
Why the Israel-Iran war could raise your taxes
If Rachel Reeves is to have any chance of making it to her autumn budget without U-turns or raising taxes,…
What the army parade says about America
So the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the US Army will not be a day that will live infamy. Nor…
Grooming gangs inquiry is welcome, but too late
The announcement that there will, after all, be a statutory inquiry into the child rape and pimping gang scandal – euphemistically referred to as ‘grooming gangs’ – should…
Bristol museum’s trans exhibition is like something out of a cult
The Bristol Museum and Art Gallery is one of those places that makes me feel uncomfortable. I feel picked-on even…
AI is rotting our children’s minds
‘He’s more machine than man now’, complains Obi-Wan Kenobi of his notoriously fallen apprentice Darth Vader in Star Wars. The same thought…
Saudi Arabia’s soft power art attack
From roughly the 1970s to the mid-2010s, Saudi Arabia was the stuff of nightmares, referred to now, with understatement, as ‘the…
Does anyone really want AI civil servants?
Of course they’ve called it ‘Humphrey’. The cutesy name that has been given to the AI tool the government is…
Motability won’t give up its lucrative business without a fight
Motability, the scheme set up to provide vehicles, scooters and powered wheelchairs to disabled people, has become something of a…
How to be a better father
Children in this country are desperate for fathers to rise to the occasion. All the research indicates that a key…
This is Netanyahu’s Churchill moment
History may not repeat itself, but it certainly rhymes, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now finds himself in precisely…
On the ground at the President’s military parade
Washington, DC “Every other country celebrates their victories, it’s about time America did too,” Donald Trump told a whooping, albeit…
Minnesota is no longer the “state that works”
Fifty-two years ago, TIME magazine featured Governor Wendell Anderson on its cover, dressed in the state’s unofficial uniform of a…
Trump’s military parade is no show of strength
“This is a big day for America!!! DJT” wrote on his Truth Social account, kicking off the day of his…
Starmer agrees to grooming gangs inquiry
This evening, Keir Starmer has announced he does want a national inquiry on grooming gangs after all. The Prime Minister…
The British right is embracing direct action
First, it was Robert Jenrick tackling fare dodgers. Then it was Gareth Davies pursuing a thief. You might be forgiven…
