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The death throes of free speech in Britain – and its opponents

Politicians shouldn’t be allowed to turn the birthplace of liberty into its charnel house

Charles Lipson

Watch: Nigel Farage warns Congress about UK speech laws

‘At what point did we become North Korea?’

Cockburn

J.D. Vance: proconsul to Britain?

In Britain, as with Washington DC, American leaders are now saving localities from too much self-rule run amok

Bruce Gilley

Does Trump’s handshake deal with the EU put America first?

Of course, in Trumpworld, trade-offs don’t exist. There’s no downside, no losing. There’s only ‘winning’

Kate Andrews

Germany

Can Friedrich Merz save Germany from irrelevancy?

German ministers seem determined to advertise their nation’s unwillingness to shoulder serious responsibilities

Henry Donovan

Europe
August 18, 2025
Zelensky dresses up and avoids dressing-down
Trump specializes in the diplomatic theater of the absurd
Madeline Grant
Europe
August 15, 2025
The folly of labeling air conditioning ‘far right’
You are removing any real meaning from the term by using it to describe mainstream ideas held by tens of millions
Stephen Pollard
Europe
August 14, 2025
The US is right to warn Britain about its free speech record
The State Department didn’t even mention the 30-plus people a day arrested for social media posts
Andrew Tettenborn
Europe
August 11, 2025
Candace Owens: on the Macron lawsuit, anti-Semitism and Trump
Bits from Candace Owens and Freddy Gray’s interview
Freddy Gray
Policy
August 6, 2025
Will Trump kill Britain’s pharma industry?
Medicine prices are on average 2.7 times higher in the US than in the rest of the world
Matthew Lynn
Law
August 5, 2025
The Spectator and Douglas Murray win UK defamation claim
The videos Mohammed Hegab publishes are ‘at least as reputationally damaging to him’ as Murray’s article, a judge found
The Spectator
Europe
August 4, 2025
Ann Coulter: On immigration, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein Files
Bits from Ann Coulter and Freddy Gray’s interview
Freddy Gray
Europe
August 4, 2025
Why Europe will be watching J.D. Vance this summer
As Vice President, he has shown an eagerness to use his office to engage in UK domestic issues
James Heale
Europe
July 28, 2025
Jonathan Miller: How I got under Macron’s skin
Nearly half the French population fears civil war. But from chaos comes wonderful stories
Jonathan Miller
Place
July 28, 2025
Why the Cotswolds is a Potemkin England
A rural fantasy for the fundamentally dislocated – not from the land, but from the lives most people actually live
Matthew Wilcox

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