October 2020

The Spectator would like to make one appeal in this tumultuous year: for America to keep faith in democracy.’


Politics October 1, 2020

The hostages’ president

For all his faults, Trump cares about captive Americans

Paul Wood

Europe October 1, 2020

Britain clambers aboard the BLM bandwagon

The public does not buy into the notion that there is ‘structural’ racism in the UK. There isn’t

Rod Liddle

Politics October 1, 2020

Godforsaken: religion is vanishing from American politics

The country is undergoing a Great Unraveling

Damian Thompson

Spectator Editorial October 1, 2020

The danger this time

The promise to live and let live rather than treat every political battle as all-out war to the death is breaking down

Spectator Editorial

How many homes are at extreme risk of wildfire?

Texas has the second-highest number of any state

The Spectator

Politics October 1, 2020

How democracy dies

Mail-in voting undermines elections

Daniel McCarthy

The 747 was the last moment of romance in air travel

From the ground, you almost sensed a 747 before you heard it

Stephen Bayley

Middle East October 1, 2020

Pompeo’s principles

Talking policy, paradigms and turning Trump’s instincts into reality

Dominic Green