Stop the global tax!
The Biden administration’s ‘multilateralism’ could make ‘America First’ look positively magnanimous
Ross Clark
Ross Clark is a leader writer and columnist who has written for The Spectator for three decades. His books include Not Zero, The Road to Southend Pier, and Far From EUtopia: Why Europe is failing and Britain could do better
Tuesday
Tuesday
Brace yourselves for ‘Bidenomics’
This administration’s financial philosophy seems to be ‘let’s pour rocket fuel on the flames’
Wednesday
What if the virus that causes COVID was man-made?
A new paper looks at the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was artificially created
Monday
The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
No one is telling Americans to ‘look at the EU’ anymore
Wednesday
What are the long-term effects of keeping schools closed?
The crisis in lockdown learning
Wednesday
The cashless lobby is cashing in on the COVID-19 crisis
What does evidence matter when you have a multi-million payments industry to promote?
Monday
We’re all Chinese now
The international coronavirus response marks a huge breakthrough moment for Chinese soft power
Wednesday
Coronavirus’s biggest victim? Money
Balancing the books hasn’t just gone out of fashion — it is treated as if it were some quaint tradition which died out long ago
Monday
Market hysteria is not all down to coronavirus
An infectious disease has not previously caused a recession, at least not in modern times
Wednesday
Coronavirus could be ‘black swan event’ that costs Trump the presidency
The disease could have already triggered a massive stock market correction that might affect his re-election
Wednesday
After Brexit
A US-Britain trade deal would be a boon for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump
Wednesday
There’s a long way to go before Trump can declare victory in his trade war
The goodwill signaled by China’s concessions is perhaps more important than the concessions themselves
Friday
Trump’s Chinese tariffs are simply a scare tactic
The president is often described as unpredictable, but he is really quite easy to read
Saturday
Britain is dangerously close to having an overtly anti-American prime minister
What would that mean for the so-called special relationship?
Friday
The lie that could dominate Britain’s election
Labour is adamant that the Tories want to sell the NHS off to America
Thursday
Are inside-traders profiting from the US-China trade war?
Conspiracy theorists have pointed out a number of large trades conducted at highly opportune moments
Tuesday
Will China meddle in the 2020 election?
It isn’t going to be Vladimir Putin who swings the 2020 election. It might be Xi Jinping
Thursday
Trump has made America less racist
Anti-black and anti-Hispanic prejudice has declined since 2016, new study shows
Friday
A booming economy makes Trump look wiser than his detractors
It is going to take a hell of a heave for a Democrat to push him out of the White House
Sunday
The truth about London knife crime – and the prejudice with which the world listens to Trump
I would love to undertake a behavioural experiment in which a cohort of the public were asked to watch Donald Trump reading out the Gettysburg Address and asked to make comments. I can guess what would happen. There would be an overwhelming negative response. Those who listened would use words like ‘outrageous’, ‘disgraceful’. They would … Read more
