World
How terror changed Europe’s Christmas markets
Europe’s public buildings and major infrastructure are positively surrounded by bollards and steel barriers
The myth of white exceptionalism
We are currently living through a period of change in our moral order
In defense of Maria Butina
It seems entirely plausible that her biggest crime was networking
Trump’s sudden Syria pullout reveals his administration’s chaos – and misguided priorities
Whatever trust there was between the White House and the Pentagon has vanished
Donald Trump is a man of peace – his enemies are a war machine
War brings our elite together
Ignore the hawks, Trump’s Syria withdrawal is bold and brave
It makes a conflict with Iran less likely
Should George Soros be Person of the Year?
It depends on which year
American Catholicism is going back to the future
A religious revolution is underway
It’s time to tell the truth on North Korea
We are nowhere near a deal to denuclearize North Korea
Who does Leo Varadkar think he is?
He thinks that what is good for his government is more important than what the British people voted for
Are we really going to abandon Brexit because of a chocolate bar shortage?
We know that we have to be lighter on our feet and more agile, if we are to take advantage of all the freedoms we will gain
The Maduro diet
A letter from Venezuela
‘Theresa May has failed Pakistan’s Christians’: An interview with Asia Bibi’s lawyer
Saif ul-Malook on fearing for his life and defending Asia Bibi from blasphemy
Is the Cohen-in-Prague mystery about to be revealed at last?
Trump’s fixer has always denied a meeting took place
The confusion of the Confucians
Kissinger is right about Trump, of course
Theresa May has boxed herself in
She stays because she has promised to go
After a day of high drama in Westminster, nothing has changed
Inside Parliament as Theresa May wins a confidence vote
The confidence vote was not a win in any real sense for Theresa May
Ministers are keen to put to The Spectator that 200 is a respectable figure – even if it is on the low end of respectable
Have the Tory rebels’ methods scuppered their chances of success?
The heavy-handed confidence vote operation is deterring Conservative MPs
Ditching Theresa May achieves nothing
Changing the pilot right now does not mean a change in direction
What will happen for Theresa May in today’s confidence vote?
One long-time backbench ally of the Prime Minister predicts that she’ll win by 200 to 115
Jamal Khashoggi is the right TIME Person of the Year – for all the wrong reasons
Khashoggi represented everything that is repressive and repugnant about journalism in the Arab world. Why is he so honored?
The lies and liars of Brexit
The politicians I’ve spent my adult life talking to, writing about and often defending, have failed in their first responsibility: to tell people the truth
May’s delay has made a leadership challenge more likely
It has become a received wisdom that the British PM has somehow has stayed the executioner’s axe. Yet the opposite is true
If Brexit is blocked, will it ever be worth voting again?
Although we were offered two choices in 2016, only one of those choices was ever ready to be implemented
