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Travis Aaroe

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Liberal stereotype / Keir Starmer and the myth of the metropolitan elite

We are meant to be living in the age of the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’. Professor Matt Goodwin and David Goodhart tell us that selection by...

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The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Keir Starmer and the myth of the metropolitan elite

We are meant to be living in the age of the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’. Professor Matt Goodwin and David Goodhart tell us that selection by...

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The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

The crass anti-politics of the Lib Dems

At Prime Minister’s Questions the other week, Ed Davey mildly chided Sir Keir for whipping his MPs on a privileges committee vote, before...

11.05.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Can AI make Spencer Pratt mayor?

What to make of the new AI election ad created by the filmmaker Charles Curran on behalf of Spencer Pratt, a reality TV star who is running to be...

06.05.2026 20

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

The spies who are loved

One consequence of Trumpism has been the open entry of America’s national security state into politics. Former spies and generals such as Mark...

30.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

The Palantir manifesto doesn’t go far enough

Tech companies like Palantir now find themselves in a bind. Wanting government contracts, they have a reason to stay politically neutral. At the same...

25.04.2026 20

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

The Palantir manifesto doesn’t go far enough

Tech companies like Palantir now find themselves in a bind. Wanting government contracts, they have a reason to stay politically neutral. At the same...

25.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Orbán’s defeat is a warning to MAGA

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán was the first populist of the 21st century. The problems his country faced, he said, were immigration – both legal and...

14.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Hungary has become a tired gerontocracy

Hungary in 2026 is what most developed countries were probably on their way to becoming in the 1980s and early nineties, had mass migration not...

09.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Hungary has become a tired gerontocracy

Hungary in 2026 is what most developed countries were probably on their way to becoming in the 1980s and early nineties, had mass migration not...

09.04.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Bring on the nihilists / MAGA shouldn’t try to build a new moral order

Americans increasingly suspect that the entire social order is a sort of elaborate swindle. Billions of their taxpayer dollars were found to have gone...

17.03.2026 20

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

MAGA shouldn’t try to build a new moral order

Americans increasingly suspect that the entire social order is a sort of elaborate swindle. Billions of their taxpayer dollars were found to have gone...

15.03.2026 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Paper protest / Teen Vogue and the end of woke

12.11.2025 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

When Curtis Yarvin met Alastair Campbell

26.09.2025 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

The Mandelson ‘joke’ fell flat in Washington

12.09.2025 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Crime / Iryna Zarutska and the reality of American ‘two-tier’ justice

10.09.2025 10

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe

Henry VIII turned England upside down

28.06.2025 20

The Spectator

Travis Aaroe