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Lionel Shriver

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Remember Covid? / The column you don’t want to read

08.12.2024 20

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Non-crimes / The true meaning of free speech

Right after Donald Trump’s landslide, I opined on YouTube that this turning point could sound the death knell for Woke World – an observation that...

21.11.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Debt crisis / The real test for the republic

It’s always intimidating to write for a readership more clued up than you are. I file this on the very Tuesday the international commentariat have...

11.11.2024 5

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Hobson’s choice / America’s last undecided voter

This is the last column I’ll file before the American presidential election, and I’ve dreaded writing it for months. (The next one, filed on...

24.10.2024 30

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Amy Wax / My friend, Amy Wax, the pariah

Spectator TV viewers may recall that in last week’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray interviewed the University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax,...

10.10.2024 8

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Health / Whatever happened to Lionel Shriver?

For many readers, my absence from these pages may have gone unnoticed. Those few who’ve detected my disappearance might have idly concocted...

26.09.2024 20

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

America / Will the real Kamala Harris please stand up?

About five minutes ago, the one Democrat more certain to lose to Donald Trump than Joe Biden was his widely ridiculed vice president. Party wonks...

01.08.2024 20

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Similar vain / Biden is as big a narcissist as Trump

The dullest assertion you can make about Donald Trump is that he’s a narcissist who has no interest in the American people and only cares about...

04.07.2024 7

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Left turn / Tory voters want to punish their party – and themselves

For progressive onlookers abroad, the Labour landslide now projected next month will seem a cheerful counterweight to the EU parliamentary...

21.06.2024 4

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Criminally popular / Another election boost for Trump

Last Thursday evening a companionable London dinner party was just wrapping up when our hostess returned to the table brandishing the New York Times...

07.06.2024 7

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Demographic shift / What will Europe look like in the future?

This year, several articles in mainstream papers have sounded the alarm that the global human fertility rate will soon cross below the point needed to...

23.05.2024 20

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

US politics / I hate hate speech laws

I originally intended to observe that American universities’ anti-Israel protestors and Hamas terrorists deserve each other, because they’ve so...

09.05.2024 20

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Bucking the trend / It rarely pays to be ahead of your time

Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the number of...

25.04.2024 30

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Shock factor / Going electric requires electricity. Who knew?

A lead article in the sober-sided New York Times is seldom funny. Yet ‘A New Surge in Power Use is Threatening US Climate Goals’ earlier this...

28.03.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

US immigration / Beware pathological niceness

Lionel Shriver has narrated this article for you to listen to. When so many polls suggest that restricting mass immigration would be to politicians’...

14.03.2024 4

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Bot bias / Gemini AI exposes the progressive playbook

By now, most of you have probably seen the preposterous images generated by Google’s new AI conversation app, Gemini. Admitting to ‘missing the...

29.02.2024 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

In the dock / Can Trump ever get a fair trial?

Lionel Shriver has narrated this article for you to listen to. I’m an unlikely defender of Donald Trump. Politically, he’s not my boy. Most of the...

01.02.2024 5

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Election woes / Hell hath no fury like the left scorned

Over a leg of lamb, I joined five other expat Americans for Christmas. Our topic du jour was which faction in our homeland we were most afraid of....

09.01.2024 9

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

Time’s up / No one wants to talk about Ukraine any more

Apologies for this seasonal downer. Had the website such a listing, this column would surely soar to number one in The Spectator’s ‘Least...

14.12.2023 10

The Spectator

Lionel Shriver

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