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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Michael Taube |Joshua Trevino |Mark Galeotti |Douglas Murray
As widely expected, Mark Carney has become the new Liberal party of Canada leader — and will become Canada’s next prime minister. The former Bank of England and Bank of Canada governor won by an overwhelming margin on Sunday, taking 85.9 per cent of the vote. Former Liberal deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland finished a distant second with 8 per cent. Carney will now meet with outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to set a timetable for the transition of power.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |John Connolly |Joshua Trevino |Joseph Humire
In the fight against climate change, China loves to present itself as the world’s White Knight. Armed with wind turbines and solar panels, EVs and batteries, it will rescue us from oblivion if only we would let it. There’s no shortage of western politicians, academics and organizations who are happy to go along with the idea that China is an ally in the global green revolution.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Yascha Mounk |Grace Curley |Joshua Trevino |Joseph Humire
Over the last weeks, the words and actions of the Trump administration have caused the biggest rift between the United States and Europe since the end of the Cold War. Relations between the longstanding partners are more strained now than they were in the run-up to George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq or in the aftermath of Trump’s 2018 joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Matthew Lynn |Michael Taube |Joshua Trevino
What are the real intentions of President Donald Trump’s trade war? Does he really believe tariffs work to boost economic growth domestically? Does he see them as tools to prop up American businesses, as his vice-president does? Or, as in his first term, are threats of import levies almost purely about leverage — and if so, what does he want?
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Matthew Lynn |Michael Taube |Joshua Trevino
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump described his sweeping 10 percent tariffs against Chinese goods as an “opening salvo.” Within minutes of them taking effect at midnight last night, Beijing retaliated with targeted tariffs of its own against US coal, liquified natural gas (LNG), farm equipment and cars. It also announced export controls on a string of critical minerals to “safeguard national security” and what it described as an “anti-trust” investigation into Google.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Joshua Trevino |Alexander Larman |Kate Andrews
Mexico and Canada have been given a last-minute reprieve from Donald Trump’s tariffs. China has offered only the most half-hearted response to them. At this rate, even the European Union may be off the hook. Equity markets have rallied strongly as the trade war which seems about to crash the global economy appears to have been averted. But has it really? Investors are kidding themselves if they think the crisis is over.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Robert Bryce |Joshua Trevino |Kate Andrews |Ian O’Doherty
Barack Obama famously said, “Elections have consequences.”For proof of that, look no further than the carnage hitting Big Wind. A few days ago, Jason Grumet, the head of the American Clean Power Association (annual revenue: $62.3 million), told Heatmap News that “probably more than half” of all new wind projects under development in the US could be killed due to President Trump’s executive order requiring a “comprehensive assessment” of federal permitting.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Joshua Trevino |Alexander Larman |Kate Andrews |Juan P. Villasmil
“The Mexican drug-trafficking organizations have an intolerable alliance with the government of Mexico,” announced the White House last month, buried in the official statement on US tariffs on that country’s goods. The declaration has sent shockwaves through Mexico.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
armas.co | Joshua Trevino
The Free Press article on Catholic women veiling at Mass is an interesting vignette on one small facet of a particular search for meaning that increasingly defines the twenty-first century West. Of course the search for meaning has always characterized humanity, but this one has a quality of being ex nihilo, in its way: it comes upon the culmination of what was to have been the end of all things.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
sgtreport.com | Joshua Trevino
by Joshua Trevino, Daily Sceptic:A much-remarked and deeply chilling aspect of the British regime’s social repression following the civil disorder and violence of early August is its pursuit of those who merely engaged in speech online. The various mechanisms of the regime have been crowing about the wave of arrests and jailing, including a Home Office posting that “[t]here’s no place in society for armchair thugs”.
