Will Putin help Trump’s Iran deal?
Operation Spiderweb was tactically brilliant, but the strategic fall-out remains uncertain
Freddy Gray
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
Thursday
Thursday
The world that Elon Musk couldn’t conquer
From our UK edition
Elon Musk understands astrophysics, yet he seems unable to grasp the strange laws of gravity which govern Washington politics. Last night, the world’s richest man confirmed what everybody in Washington already knew: his time as a ‘special employee’ in the White House is over and he’s leaving his formal role as head of the Department
Thursday
Donald Trump – the Orange Mandela?
The Commander-in-Chief pressed the South African President on violence against white Afrikaner farmers
What we know about the Israeli diplomat shootings in Washington so far
From our UK edition
The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, was seen pacing around Washington DC’s Jewish Museum in the minutes before last night’s attack. According to Pamela Smith, DC’s chief of police, he then shouted ‘Free Palestine’ before shooting and killing two Israeli embassy staffers – a couple, named as Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky, who reportedly were
Thursday
How Donald Trump will be impeached
As Trump continues his pharaonic world diplomacy, the corruption stories are piling up against him
Thursday
Is Pope Leo XIV part of the ‘Trumplash’?
From our UK edition
It feels a bit facile and tasteless to say that the first American Pope, Leo XIV, has been elected to counter the influence of Trumpism. Popes often change in the role and, since Catholicism is a religion and not an electoral party, the servants of the servants of God tend to defy political caricature. Consider
Is the US-UK trade deal a coup for Starmer — or Trump?
From our UK edition
It’s musical deals in world politics at the moment. Last week, Donald Trump and his senior officials intimated that a big new trade accord with India was imminent. Yet on Tuesday, Keir Starmer announced that he had reached a major agreement with Delhi. Then, late last night, the New York Times reported that Trump will
Thursday
Deals, deals, deals vs China, China, China
The world’s two biggest powers are now engaged in a full-blown trade war
Trump’s big gambles are paying off
From our UK edition
‘I run the country and the world,’ said President Donald Trump last week. That’s not really an exaggeration. In our ever more mediatised age, Trump doesn’t just make the news. He is the news, win or lose. Why did Mark Carney triumph in the Canadian elections? A Trump backlash. What happened at the Pope’s funeral?
Thursday
Harvard’s intricate China ties
There are a number of allegations that Chinese funding has excessively influenced the university’s research and academic output
Thursday
What’s going on in the Pentagon?
Insiders have joined the dots between a clear-out of Hegseth’s top team and internal struggles vis-à-vis Iran
Wednesday
Trump shock: is there method behind the madness?
From our UK edition
A ‘black swan event’, as defined by the risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb in 2007, is a surprise occurrence that has a major impact on the global financial system and is rationalised after the fact as something that ought to have been expected all along. The 9/11 terror attacks are one example, the Covid pandemic
Thursday
So long, Elon?
What would happen to Trump 2.0 in the absence of Musk, the world’s most potent MAGA voice?
Thursday
Snow White and the seven circles of Hell
The film’s star can’t keep her progressive political views to herself
Wednesday
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap
From our UK edition
Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, ‘The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans’, the Atlantic editor rather pompously declared that he was withholding some of the information he had received on grounds of national security, contrasting his own propriety with the slapdashery
Monday
What Team Trump’s group chat error really revealed
From our UK edition
Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in the Atlantic is so mind-blowing it’s hard to know what to say in response. It defies belief that Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, appears to have accidentally added a top journalist to a Signal messaging group with senior government officials – including the Vice President, Secretary of State, Defence
Thursday
Did Joe Biden’s presidency really happen?
The 46th presidency only ended eight weeks ago and already Biden is a ghost
Ukraine is just one part of Trump’s Great Game
From our UK edition
Washington D.C. For Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, it’s a case of today Ukraine, tomorrow the world. In their much-hyped telephone call this week, the Russian leader didn’t appear to give much away: a step towards a sort-of ceasefire, a prisoner swap and a few other bits and bobs. But Putin knows that Trump wants
Wednesday
Donald Trump, Putin and the Concert of Arabia
The subject of Iran appears to have been just as important as Ukraine
Tuesday
Trump is giving Putin the opportunity to play nice
From our UK edition
Almost exactly seven years ago, on Monday 19 March 2018, Donald Trump decided he wanted to telephone Vladimir Putin to congratulate the Russian president on his re-election. The call was set up for the following day, though Trump’s then national security advisor H R McMaster ordered his team to give the President helpful note cards.
