Trump should shut down his press conferences, now
America needs ‘transparency’ from its government. It doesn’t need the daily Punch-and-Judy shows
Freddy Gray is deputy editor of The Spectator and the editor of the US edition. He hosts Americano on YouTube.
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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‘We are the United States of Amnesia,’ said Gore Vidal in 2004. These days, it’s more the United States of Dementia. In 2020, the country seems determined to choose between two elderly men who, it is fair to say, are some distance from sanity. Joe Biden, the 77-year-old who even aides admit has lost his
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The nature of his success — never mind the obvious flaws — suggests the Trump campaign should be somewhat alarmed