Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have significantly upped the stakes in the competition for The World’s Most Annoying Couple™. The “privacy-seeking” ex-royals have bared their souls in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Their grievances are many. In Spectator UK, Melanie McDonagh casts a gimlet eye over their incendiary accusations.
In his newly released memoirs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter presents himself as a victim, magically transforming his copious vices into virtues. In Spectator US, Dominic Green tells how a colluding media spins the story of a corrupt President and his sleazy son into one of absolution and redemption.
Pope Francis’ silence over the dismantling of a Catholic Church in China is unsettling. Long-time Vatican-watcher Damian Thompson wonders if the Pope could be an agent of Beijing. In Spectator US, Thompson notes that the Pontiff’s toxic resentment of the U.S. means he has never met a dictator he didn’t like.
The media, politicians, progressive intellectuals and the business elite continue to advance the idea that the U.S. is an apartheid regime, requiring reparations for minorities and open discrimination against whites. In Spiked, Joel Kotkin cites statistics refuting this ill-conceived telling of American history and discusses the threats the racialized narrative poses to social peace.
Charges of “institutional racism” are the evidence-free, all-purpose tool for ending meaningful discussion about disparities between ethnic groups. In Unherd, Douglas Murray argues that the problem with such accusations is not just their predictability and inaccuracy, but also that they distract from genuine attempts to investigate the complex questions surrounding race.
In his newly released memoirs, U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter presents himself as a victim, magically transforming his copious vices into virtues. In Spectator US, Dominic Green tells how a colluding media spins the story of a corrupt President and his sleazy son into one of absolution and redemption.
Pope Francis’ silence over the dismantling of a Catholic Church in China is unsettling. Long-time Vatican-watcher Damian Thompson wonders if the Pope could be an agent of Beijing. In Spectator US, Thompson notes that the Pontiff’s toxic resentment of the U.S. means he has never met a dictator he didn’t like.
The media, politicians, progressive intellectuals and the business elite continue to advance the idea that the U.S. is an apartheid regime, requiring reparations for minorities and open discrimination against whites. In Spiked, Joel Kotkin cites statistics refuting this ill-conceived telling of American history and discusses the threats the racialized narrative poses to social peace.
Charges of “institutional racism” are the evidence-free, all-purpose tool for ending meaningful discussion about disparities between ethnic groups. In Unherd, Douglas Murray argues that the problem with such accusations is not just their predictability and inaccuracy, but also that they distract from genuine attempts to investigate the complex questions surrounding race.
