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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Roger Kimball |Ben Domenech |Ian O’Doherty
Teachers’ unions have donated millions upon millions over the years almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and left-wing organizations. So it’s no wonder Dems, realizing their cash cow could be on the verge of drying up, are losing their minds over President Trump signing an executive order yesterday to begin eradicating the Department of Education.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Ian O’Doherty |Freddy Gray |Owen Matthews
In the matter of Donald Trump v. Leviathan, let me begin by stipulating that Sir Thomas More was right in A Man for All Seasons when he remonstrated with his future son-in-law William Roper. Roper was urging More to arrest the scheming Richard Rich, whose machinations would eventually lead to More’s execution. But, More points out, Rich had broken no law. William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do?
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Freddy Gray |Matthew Lynn |Owen Matthews
The Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin will have felt some relief after his visit to the White House last week. While Trump criticized Ireland for poaching American pharmaceutical companies, the general consensus was that Martin had walked away pretty unscathed. In fact, the mood was so optimistic following the encounter that Tanaiste Simon Harris, also in America for the week, offered Trump a state visit to Ireland sometime next year.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Henry Jeffreys |Catriona Olding |Rod Liddle |Ian O’Doherty
Well, it looks like it’s going to be war between the European Union and the US. A trade war that is, before you start digging a shelter in the backyard.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Rod Liddle |Roger Kimball |Ian O’Doherty |Michael Evans
In January last year the European Union revealed that it had dreamed up a “secret plan” to sabotage the economy of one of its member states. Brussels was growing impatient with the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, who had shown the temerity to dissent from EU orthodoxy on a number of issues. In this particular case it was Orbán’s continued use of the veto to block a £50 billion aid package to Ukraine that had angered the bureaucrats and liberal politicians.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Matt Purple |Roger Kimball |Teresa Mull |Ian O’Doherty
Conservatives’ loathing for diversity, equity and inclusion is easy to understand. DEI’s very mission — junking Thomas Jefferson’s natural aristocracy of talents in favor of race- and gender-based advancement — runs against everything the American right is supposed to stand for. They watched with chagrin during the Biden years as DEI offices spread across the nation, into corporate C-suites and government departments and, of course, universities.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian O’Doherty |Hamish McRae |Sergey Radchenko |Samuel Gregg
The Taoiseach Micheal Martin’s White House encounter with Donald Trump was controversial even before it was announced.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Michael Evans |Kate Andrews |Katy Balls |Ian O’Doherty
President Volodymyr Zelensky needs all the advice he can get, as he prepares for talks with American negotiators in Saudi Arabia tomorrow. A statement over the weekend from the Ukrainian presidential office disclosed that the latest western visitor to make the long train ride into Kyiv was Jonathan Powell, Sir Keir Starmer’s national security adviser and veteran crisis negotiator.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Katy Balls |Ian O’Doherty |Michael Simmons |Philip Patrick
When Donald Trump addressed Congress this week, he declared he was “just getting started.” His words will not have soothed politicians in the UK, who are still playing catch-up with the President’s first 43 days. This week, Trump proved yet again that he is the biggest force in British politics.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Philip Bunn |Kate Andrews |Ian O’Doherty |Michael Simmons
Last month, the online magazine Current announced it will be shuttering in April. A small magazine run by a dedicated team of editors volunteering their time, Current was a lovely diamond in a whole mess of internet rough. I was only able to publish a few short pieces there since discovering it, but many of my favorite writers have appeared in its digital pages, and the outpouring of support it has received since the announcement makes me confident that it will be sorely missed.
