Will Trump be a convicted felon?
Plus: Biden doles out more student loan forgiveness
The Spectator
Wednesday
At Home with Emily Brontë
From our UK edition
Ironing is her favourite task. The rhythm and the steam transport her to an outer state more vivid than a dream – a place of creased and crumpled hills, a wet and heavy land through which a burning body moves, directed by her hand. Each stroke a stride, the rugged earth dissolves into a plain
Monday
Biden’s rough weekend
Plus: Cohen’s final day of cross & Senate brings back immigration bill
Friday
Mayorkas’s daughter is on ‘national security threat’ TikTok
Plus: MTG and AOC smackdown & White House blocks release of Hur audio
Thursday
2651: Visionary – solution
From our UK edition
The Turner works were RAIN STEAM AND SPEED (5,44) and THE SLAVE SHIP (35), the Ruskin works MODERN PAINTERS (16,9) and UNTO THIS LAST (18) First prize Geran Jones, Bromley Runners-up Nigel Finlay, Thames Ditton, Surrey; Michael Debenham, Shrewsbury
Letters: how to get the uni protestors out
From our UK edition
Soft left Sir: I read with a certain wry amusement in Yascha Mounk’s piece that ‘activists’ occupying Columbia were demanding the university administrators should supply them with food and water (‘Preach first’, 11 May). How times have changed. In winter 1976 I was the president of the student body at Edinburgh University. A group of
When was the last genuine royal tour of Nigeria?
From our UK edition
Royal welcomes The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visited Nigeria last week. When was the last genuine royal tour of that country? – The late Queen made a 20-day visit in 1956, four years before Nigeria’s independence. She went for three days in 2003 when she opened the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.– The then
Portrait of the Week: Natalie Elphicke defects, wages rise and Switzerland takes Eurovision
From our UK edition
Home The parliamentary Labour party shook itself uneasily after Natalie Elphicke, the MP for Dover, crossed the floor of the Commons and joined it, because she found the Conservatives too left wing. Monty Panesar, the former England cricketer, left George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain a week after being announced as a parliamentary candidate. Some
Britain should embrace the AI revolution
From our UK edition
Rishi Sunak’s big speech this week was easily lampooned. Having accused Keir Starmer of ‘doomsterism’, the Prime Minister warned that Britain’s most dangerous years lay ahead, and talked of the threat from ‘colluding authoritarian states’. Less attention was paid to the part of his speech about artificial intelligence, which was in fact genuinely optimistic. As
Wednesday
Biden and Trump say ‘YES’ to debates
Plus: Cohen is cross-examined & a primary night roundup
Letters from Spectator readers, June 2024
Ballots, baseball and blue-collar jobs
This month in culture: June 2024
Our guide to what should be on your radar
Monday
Cohen in court
Plus: RFK flip-flops on abortion & Jen Psaki spins for Biden
Saturday
Why won’t phone companies stop kids using social media?
From our UK edition
When it comes to social media, parents find it difficult enough to keep up with their offspring’s online world. What hope, then, do governments and regulators have of keeping up with digital technology? This week, Ofcom has announced a new code of practice which aims to use powers granted under the Online Safety Act in
Friday
Does RFK know what he believes on abortion?
Plus: Cuellar aides reportedly working with the feds
Thursday
How violent are prisons?
From our UK edition
Name calling Springwatch presenter Gillian Burke says she finds it ‘jarring’ to call animals by their English names, preferring Swahili. Some popular Swahili translations: – Elephant: tembo/ndovu – Giraffe: twiga – Lion: simba – Hyena: fisi – Hippopotamus: hippopotamus – I’m fed up of paying for a TV licence: Nimechoka kulipa leseni ya TV Full
Letters: the Tory party has gone mad
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Right is wrong Sir: Katy Balls’s article ‘Survival Plan’ (4 May) starts from a false premise. The problem is not Rishi Sunak, but the current Conservative party’s underlying ethos. With Brexit, the lunatics took over the asylum. The ‘Get Brexit Done’ single-issue election resulted in a Conservative party, cabinet and parliamentary majority sharing populist right-wing
2650: Detention for History – solution
From our UK edition
Santayana said ‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’ First prize Magdalena Deptula, Eton, Berks Runners-up Jim Knox, Beaconsfield, Bucks; Simon Purves, London N6
Portrait of the week: Tory defections, local elections and a China defence hack
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Home The local elections proved dreadful for the Conservatives but not quite perfect for Labour. The Conservatives lost 474 of the council wards in contention, ending up with 515; Labour gained an extra 186 to reach 1,158. Independents and others, some standing on the issue of Gaza, increased their councillors by 93 to 228, and
Tories for Starmer
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Nick Boles was once at the heart of a mission to renew Conservatism. He was one of a small number of modernisers, central to the Cameron project, who ended up serving as Tory ministers. He quit over Brexit and this week made his public debut in a new job as an adviser to Rachel Reeves.