Conspiracy Theories
“15-minute cities” is not a policy
Our political establishment is consumed by tedious exercises in status-signalling
Erich von Däniken and the modern paranoid style
His archeological esoterica fuelled the development of modern conspiracy theory
Is there a secret plot against AfD politicians?
Conspiracy theories flourish in a culture of anti-democratic censorship and authoritarianism
Watch out James!
It’s looking up for The Spectator’s TV Critic
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
Labour has a conspiracy problem
Dawn Butler MP should reevaluate her eccentric ideas
The paranoid style in British centrism
Disinformation journalists? The call is coming from inside the house
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
The Plot thins
Everything Dorries encounters proves how right she is
How Liz was (tin)foiled
Everybody was to blame but her
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
How the Southport riots broke Starmer’s government
A combination of authoritarianism and hypocrisy proved fatal
The principles of peers
Supporters of assisted suicide are being sore losers
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
Suicide of an author’s credibility
Matt Goodwin has done the causes that he represents no favours with his new book
A moment of profound national unseriousness
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch know that the world faces crises — but are they part of the crises?
Europe should defend itself
European states should invest more in their own defence, and the US should let them
The enduring fascination of Richard Nixon
Why America’s most contradictory president still exerts a strange grip on the political imagination.
Farewell to a gentle jazz-lover
Scholarship trumps zealotry, particularly when it is veiled by modesty
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
What’s so illiberal about “illiberal democracy”?
Viktor Orbán has been a political pioneer in Europe
Zurbarán on Freud’s couch
An acclaimed new exhibition is full of overwrought symbolism and compositional failures