Donald Trump and the limits of free speech
Is Donald Trump’s expulsion from Twitter an attack on free speech? A great many Republicans are saying so. You certainly…
Why 2020 was the fourth best year in history
The Spectator has a long and proud history of fact-based optimism, sometimes represented by an end-of-the-year article explaining that statistics…
The Covid trap
Will we ever go back to how we were?
Can we trust Covid modelling? More evidence from Sweden
At last we’re getting a debate about Covid-19 modelling. When people finally got to look under the hood of the…
The rise – and disastrous fall – of the kibbutz
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell are part of a breed of socialists who argue that this time will be different.…
Our golden age
‘We have fallen upon evil times, politics is corrupt and the social fabric is fraying.’ Who said that? Donald Trump…
How to lose an election
What Cameron can learn from the defeat of Swedish moderniser Fredrik Reinfeldt
