February 2020 Issue

FROM THE MAGAZINE

February 2020

The Spectator has, since its founding in 1828, always stood on the side of free expression and thought. Without those freedoms, civilized society will quickly fall apart.’

I was expelled from the Electoral College before I was even admitted

Wayward electors run in our family

By Bill Kauffman

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What is a ‘tergiversation’?

The Latin for ‘back’ is ‘tergum’

By Dot Wordsworth

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Cat cafés mix business with pleasure

Paws-itively purr-fect

By Revd Steve Morris

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How many Democrats have made it to the first primary in the last 40 years?

Back in 2016, only three Democrats made it to Iowa

By The Spectator

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Internet

You can’t cancel the truth

The creeps won’t win

By Meghan Murphy

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Education

We’re all high-schoolers now

In the age of social media, we have the largest mobs in the history of mankind

By Bridget Phetasy

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Internet

The rise of cancel chic

Liberal journalists are so desperate to be canceled they’ve begun to form secret societies around the theme

By Chadwick Moore

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Europe

How will post-Brexit Britain find its way in the world?

Those who believe Britain can only trade effectively with the nearest markets know little history

By Robert Tombs

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Middle East

How far will Trump go in Iran?

The Tehran students were chanting in the streets: ‘Our enemy is right here, they’re lying that it’s America’

By Paul Wood

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Europe

After Brexit

A US-Britain trade deal would be a boon for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump

By Ross Clark

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Internet

The mob and me: my life in the crosshairs

Bars that served me were harassed and ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ signs appeared on my lawn

By Gavin McInnes

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Internet

The left’s real cause is muzzling its opponents

The kind of people who want to cancel someone are looking not for an apology, but for vengeance

By Amber Duke

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Europe

French disconnection: how Emmanuel Macron went from savior to failure

Macron needs help and his new best friend, bizarrely, is Britain’s prime minister

By Jonathan Miller

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Politics

Donald Trump, president of peace

The emotional anti-war right is susceptible to its own wishful thinking about the irenic intentions of Iran

By Daniel McCarthy

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Education

So you’ve been canceled. Here’s how to fight back

Let’s make 2020 the year cancel culture gets canceled

By Toby Young

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Education

Defend your friends

The silence of decent people allows the bullies to get away with it

By Douglas Murray

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Spectator Editorial

Tyranny of the minority

Cancel culture is real. It destroys lives, ruins careers, causes suicide and silences reasonable debate

By Spectator Editorial

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