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War games / We should fear drones, not invasion

A stray thought of my own while watching Iranian drones tracing fiery paths over the Gulf, a stray quote from Ukraine and the background rumble of...

10.07.2026 30

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

US politics / The death of two-party politics has been greatly exaggerated

Every twist in the winding road of our politics brings a latest thing to say. These wisdoms usually survive a season or two before succumbing to the...

26.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

US politics / The death of two-party politics has been greatly exaggerated

Every twist in the winding road of our politics brings a latest thing to say. These wisdoms usually survive a season or two before succumbing to the...

25.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

DEI / The truth about two-tiering

What has been remarkable about Henry Nowak’s case was not the story itself, tragic though it is, but the potency of it to spark public anxiety. The...

12.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Politics / Stopping the boats shouldn’t require magical thinking

The BBC’s tracking-down of Kardo Ranya as a people-smuggling mastermind is a triumph of investigative journalism. But anyone who thinks this will...

15.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Veggie tales / Tomorrow belongs to the vegetarians

Can there be any thinking person who has passed a lorry filled with live animals peering out through the slats on their way to slaughter, without a...

18.04.2026 30

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Can the special relationship survive Trump?

Since this calamitous Iran war began, there’s been endless talk in Britain about our ‘special relationship’ (often capitalised) with the United...

20.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

My Epstein confession

Is this Britain, 2026, or Spain, 1478? Our era begins to feel horribly like the latter. So, as the flames of the Epstein Inquisition burn higher, let...

24.02.2026 300

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Matthew Parris

Coming clean / My Epstein confession

Is this Britain, 2026, or Spain, 1478? Our era begins to feel horribly like the latter. So, as the flames of the Epstein Inquisition burn higher, let...

19.02.2026 100

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Marooned / Lima’s monument to memory

27.01.2026 40

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Marooned / Lima’s monument to memory

27.01.2026 20

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Matthew Parris

Healthy anxiety / In praise of the climate ‘emergency’

13.01.2026 30

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Healthy anxiety / In praise of the climate ‘emergency’

13.01.2026 20

The Spectator

Matthew Parris

Healthy anxiety / In praise of the climate ‘emergency’

08.01.2026 20

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Matthew Parris

Agony Auntie / Was the BBC’s Trump edit outrageously wrong?

20.11.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

The engine’s pitch has changed

09.11.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Life’s journey / The engine’s pitch has changed

08.11.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Life’s journey / The engine’s pitch has changed

06.11.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Golden era / The lost art of the insult

23.10.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

On a hunch / In defence of Chris Cash

15.10.2025 30

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Matthew Parris

On a hunch / In defence of Chris Cash

09.10.2025 50

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Matthew Parris

On a hunch / In defence of Chris Cash

09.10.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Turning tides / Hard-won gay rights will be easily lost

01.10.2025 30

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Matthew Parris

Turning tides / Hard-won gay rights will be easily lost

01.10.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Has Zelensky become a liability?

13.08.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Full steam / What it means to be English

31.07.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Full steam / What it means to be English

31.07.2025 30

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Matthew Parris

Why you should never trust a travel writer

17.07.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Baby bust / The real reason birth rates are falling

19.06.2025 30

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Matthew Parris

Baby bust / The real reason birth rates are falling

19.06.2025 30

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Matthew Parris

Time travel / What history doesn’t tell us

09.06.2025 20

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Matthew Parris

Time travel / What history doesn’t tell us

09.06.2025 20

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Matthew Parris