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Lionel ShriverNew Statesman |
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...
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...
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...
Spectator TV viewers may recall that in last week’s Americano podcast, Freddy Gray interviewed the University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax,...
For many readers, my absence from these pages may have gone unnoticed. Those few who’ve detected my disappearance might have idly concocted...
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...
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...
For progressive onlookers abroad, the Labour landslide now projected next month will seem a cheerful counterweight to the EU parliamentary...
Last Thursday evening a companionable London dinner party was just wrapping up when our hostess returned to the table brandishing the New York Times...
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...
I originally intended to observe that American universities’ anti-Israel protestors and Hamas terrorists deserve each other, because they’ve so...
Following the release of the Cass report deprecating NHS ‘gender-affirming care’ for minors as reliant on rubbish medical research, the number of...
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...
Lionel Shriver has narrated this article for you to listen to. When so many polls suggest that restricting mass immigration would be to politicians’...
By now, most of you have probably seen the preposterous images generated by Google’s new AI conversation app, Gemini. Admitting to ‘missing the...
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...
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....
Apologies for this seasonal downer. Had the website such a listing, this column would surely soar to number one in The Spectator’s ‘Least...