Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator
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Freddy Gray talks to Spectator USA’s publisher Zack Christenson about how the coronavirus will impact the way American voters cast their votes in the upcoming election.
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Historian Niall Ferguson writes in this week’s cover piece that, even before coronavirus, the Cold War between America and China was already getting underway. With the current pandemic, animosity between the two superpowers has only increased. So when it comes to the geopolitics of the ‘corona wars’, who will win? Niall tells Cindy on the podcast
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‘What did you do in the coronavirus crisis, dad?’ ‘Well son, I’m glad you ask. I helped make a very important video, entitled ‘You Clap for Me Now’. It used a technique we call passive-aggression to make people realise what horrible racists they had been towards immigrants. The video was really a poem, set to
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Freddy Gray talks to author Benjamin R Teitelbaum about Steve Bannon and Teitelbaum’s new book ‘War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right’.
America needs ‘transparency’ from its government. It doesn’t need the daily Punch-and-Judy shows
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According to psychologists, denial is a common defence mechanism. We humans reject truths which we find too uncomfortable to bear. When reality becomes too painful, we refuse to acknowledge it. The more evidence mounts against us, the more we insist that everything is ok. I fear I might be doing precisely that in reaction to
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What Bernie did, like Trump, was expose the rift between the party’s voters and its leadership
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Leader approval ratings are ticking up — similar to those terrifying COVID charts
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Our daughter Clementine, 5, has just decided what she wants to be when she grows up. ‘A cleaner …. and a mother,’ she says, in that order. Her mother, my wife Taffeta, winces at Clemmie’s ambition. Middle-class rules dictate that we should try to knock such traditional notions out of little girls’ brains. It’s not
The Fox News host on the media, Trump, Biden and the theological implications of the current crisis
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Freddy Gray talks to Fox News host Tucker Carlson about the coronavirus, his meeting with President Trump and whether Joe Biden will make it as far as the Oval Office.
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Perhaps you shouldn’t be
A letter from US editor Freddy Gray
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