Douglas Murray: Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump
In politics, it is often the people who you think have your back who end up stabbing you there.
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The latest Guardian attack on Nigel Farage is desperate stuff
Some years ago I was approached by someone from a platform called ‘Cameo’. Not all Spectator readers will have heard of this platform, and I hadn’t either. As a result I listened to their pitch with the same amount of scepticism I might reserve for an email addressed to me as ‘Dear Beloved’…
Trump’s decision to fight Iran is historic — but he needs to finish the job
This job can’t be left half-finished.
Why is the ‘gay press’ so cowardly on Iran?
Sometimes the obvious is so obvious that people forget to state it. So let me observe one small footnote among recent obvious things. Earlier this month, Donald Trump killed the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and most of the senior leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary government in Iran.
If only Britain was as important as Iran thinks we are
The Prime Minister speaks as though he is a man of far greater significance than he is.
Unlike past presidents, Trump kept and delivered his promise to eliminate our enemies
Perhaps we forgot what it’s like when politicians act on their promises.
The real affordability crisis is in the cities where Democrats rule
The Marist poll reveals that one in three New Yorkers are planning to leave the State in the next five years.
Do we really want our politicians to be uneducated?
The interesting thing about political pendulums is that they always over-swing. In the campaign for this week’s Gorton and Denton by-election, one of the main lines of attack on the Reform candidate is that he used to be an academic and is therefore ill-suited to being the area’s parliamentary representative.
How Apple News and other tech giants change the narrative for Democrats
The New York Post revealed this week that Apple News has set up a sneaky little system of its own to make sure that its customers get indoctrinated in one political direction.
Britain’s right is falling into the same trap as the left
As I have suggested here before, there are few joys in life equal to that of watching the left fall out among itself. Whatever your political views, the whole Judean People’s Front vibe of the parties to the left of the Labour party brings a special type of comedy.
Following the law is the only sensible way to address the illegal immigration mess
If you think way back to 2023 you may remember that this city was suffering a crisis of illegal immigration.
British politics has become a Devil’s Wheel
There is a moment in Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall which has been much on my mind lately. It is the bit towards the very end of the novel when our hero, Paul Pennyfeather, re-encounters the sinister modernist architect Professor Otto Silenus. By this point Pennyfeather has undergone all manner of travails.