June 2020

‘We need a careful but determined uncoupling from China’s vast economy. When the COVID-19 crisis passes, America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest.’


Malevolent depravity: the rise of PrEP

A successful anti-Aids drug is wreaking havoc

Chadwick Moore

Bannon’s one agenda in the White House was China

Bannon was pushed out by Jared Kushner, because Kushner wanted to do business with China and Saudi

Taki

Our exile in London

The rich are in their country cottages tweeting about social distancing and playing videos of cats playing violins

Aidan Hartley

How ‘odd’ became normal

Odd is Scandinavian in origin, Viking if you like

Dot Wordsworth

Is this the Boog?

First the government makes you wear a mask to go to the supermarket. Next they’ll be after your guns

Philip Delves Broughton

China June 1, 2020

Wuhdunnit? We have only suspicions, not proof

The idea that the virus is man-made is not just a crazy theory that Trump got from one of his golf buddies

Paul Wood

Politics June 1, 2020

We need a Pompeo Plan to tame the dragon

The demagogues’ answer is to repatriate American production overnight. But this is impossible

Dominic Green

Let’s blame China

Much of the western media is behaving like a subsidiary of the Chinese Communist party

Roger Kimball

China June 1, 2020

Xi’s useful idiots against free speech

Free-thinking people everywhere should condemn those among us who facilitate China’s lies

Toby Young

Internet June 1, 2020

Rebuilding #MeToo

Just because politics took the movement and made it toxic, doesn’t mean we can’t take it back

Bridget Phetasy

Spectator Editorial June 1, 2020

A new balance

America must deploy an industrial policy to strike a better balance between globalization and the national interest

Spectator Editorial