Will Peter Mandelson thrive in Trump’s Washington?
His appointment is a disruptive move at a time when Trump 2.0 is turning democratic politics in the English-speaking world on its head
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Monday
Thursday
A guilty verdict won’t sink Trump
The ‘lawfare’ against him so far been a boon politically
Thursday
Searching for the energy at the New Hampshire primary
Biden was invisible, Trump inevitable, nothing much left to say
Tuesday
My favorite Red Lion pub
Spare a thought, dear Americans, for the British cost-of-drinking crisis
Sunday
Wrong then, wrong now — Joe Biden’s maddeningly inconsistent foreign policy
Joe Biden’s public pronouncements on Afghanistan neatly signal the folly of American leadership in the last two decades
Monday
The president of platitudes
Biden’s speeches aren’t disastrous — just listless and flat
Friday
Out now: the June edition of The Spectator World
Featuring Bridget Phetasy, Cosmo Landesman, Dominic Green, Mary Harrington, Zoe Strimpel and more
Tuesday
How COVID-19 killed Hollywood
The pandemic has sped up the decline of glitzy award ceremonies
Monday
Out now: The Spectator’s May 2021 edition
Featuring Daniel McCarthy, Ian Williams, Lionel Shriver, Matt Purple and many more
Friday
Will Joe Biden really squeeze the rich?
‘Rebalancing the American economy’ is not as easy as it sounds
Tuesday
Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis
The Biden era is much like the Trump era — you just hear more cant from the leadership
Friday
Please Twitter, stop playing ‘Guess the Killer’s Race’
It shows no empathy, scant concern at best for the victims
Tuesday
No, Meghan Markle isn’t going to be president
The more people see her, the less they like
Hot off the press — what’s in the April issue
Our April edition concerns the alarming power of the cannabis industry
Thursday
Joe Biden is a China patsy
But the Russiagate media see no evil in the big guy
Sunday
Eight handy phrases for bluffing your way through the crypto-currency boom
‘It’s no coincidence this is happening in the middle of a pandemic’
Friday
The honorable Mike Pence
The VP did not ‘turn on Trump’ — though Trump quickly turned the knife on him
Monday
The Trump racket
The movement has collapsed under the weight of its own absurdities
Friday
You don’t have to be crazy to think the election was stolen. But it helps
Paranoid thinking is taking over the Trump movement
Sunday
‘He said, she said’ reports from the MAGA march
Most of the brawls appear to have been fairly inconsequential, even boring
