The Spectator

26/07/2024

Equestrian journalist Alice Plunkett: how will Team GB equestrian star Charlotte Dujardin face the ‘judge and jury of social media’ after an upsetting video of her whipping a horse was released online? 👉 https://youtu.be/n8RPIAX4ayw

26/07/2024

'Sir Arthur reasoned that, though ubiquitous, the many varieties of fairies and goblins were hard to spot as they were made of gaseous matter and beyond the human colour spectrum.'

✍️ Robert Gore-Langton

26/07/2024

'We inglesi are not much loved in the Mediterranean. It has to do, I think, with the weird juxtaposition of two national stereotypes: the English gentleman, who is a complete cad, and the English hooligan, who is a complete animal.'

✍️ Nicholas Farrell

26/07/2024

'Everyone knows that Harris is a long way from being the ideal candidate, but she has shaken up the contest and the speed with which congressional Democrats lined up behind her suggests the party is not as divided as the experts thought.'

✍️ Freddy Gray

26/07/2024

'Is it the dismal weather? Or Labour’s campaign to persuade us that the Tories left the economy in ruins when in fact it’s moderately perky?'

✍️ Martin Vander Weyer

25/07/2024

'Netanyahu's fundamental problems still remain: dozens of hostages held by Hamas, a war with no end in sight, the risk of escalation with Hezbollah and the Houthis in Yemen, and an increasingly unstable coalition. Perhaps he’d prefer to stay in Florida.' ✍️ Arieh Kovler

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/netanyahus-speech-to-congress-wont-achieve-much

25/07/2024

'Joe Biden spoke in soft, faltering tones that did little to answer Americans’ questions or reassure them our nation is in capable hands until 20 January, 2025.' ✍️ Charles Lipson

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/joe-biden-delivers-his-own-eulogy

25/07/2024

‘Saying we respect private property, people should work, people should not expect benefits – I think that’s extremely revolutionary, actually.’

Dr Paola Romero on why Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado’s centre-right policies are actually revolutionary 👉 https://youtu.be/iCTW2m48RU8

25/07/2024

'As President Biden sank more deeply into the mire this month, kind friends kept urging me to write in his defence, because respect for the old must be maintained in our discourteous society.'

✍️ Charles Moore

25/07/2024

‘Maria Corina has the support of the people. They’re coming out in masses.’

Dr Paola Romero on Maria Corina Machado, the stylish 56-year-old Venezuelan firebrand who mixes the crowd-pulling allure of Evita Peron with the politics of Margaret Thatcher 👉 https://youtu.be/iCTW2m48RU8

25/07/2024

🎙The Edition | The curious rise of Kamala Harris

🗣 Kate Andrews and Freddy Gray: can Kamala beat Trump?

🗣 Aron D’Souza, creator of the Enhanced Games, on the ‘Olympics on steroids’

🗣 And finally: why did Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believe in fairies?

The curious rise of Kamala Harris, the Australian Millionaire behind the Enhanced Games and why Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle believed in fairies.

25/07/2024

'When Musk speaks movingly about his son’s struggle with the gender identity ‘mind virus’, Peterson comes across as hysterical and intolerant, chucking words like ‘pathetic’ into the mix. It’s hardly intellectual rigour. Why didn’t he let Musk speak?' ✍️ James Innes-Smith

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/jordan-peterson-isnt-what-he-was

25/07/2024

'Parents and school governors in several of California’s less demented districts had decided on parental notification policies so as to ensure that their own children couldn’t change gender in secret. AB1955, astonishingly, makes these parental notification policies illegal.'

✍️ Mary Wakefield

25/07/2024

‘Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the reason more women don’t do Stem subjects and go on to start software companies and become billionaires is because of ‘gender stereotypes’.’

✍️ Toby Young

25/07/2024

‘Divorce is presented as a glamorous life choice. One divorcee boasts that she can ‘go out with girlfriends on a whim, book impulsive weekends away… I am answerable to no one’. These sound like teenage ambitions; perhaps that’s the point.’

✍️ Hannah Moore

25/07/2024

'Venezuela is used to left-wing populists railing against America, the rich and capitalism in general. Machado is their equal and opposite. She’s a stylish 56-year-old who mixes the crowd-pulling allure of Evita Peron with the politics of Margaret Thatcher.'

✍️ Paola Romero

25/07/2024

‘Visitors talk of watching young children chasing rats in and out of the frowsy houses. Some 43 per cent of the residents were not born in the UK and 70 per cent of families are in some way ‘deprived’.’

✍️ Rod Liddle

25/07/2024

'As the Vatican-watcher Nico Spuntoni points out, in Rome only one man is spoken of as an obvious frontrunner to succeed Francis.'

✍️ Damian Thompson

25/07/2024

In this article for The Spectator magazine, Douglas Murray compares the public image projected by Western democracies, and the social and security challenges they face.

Should France maintain a positive national image in the face of its underlying problems? Leave a comment with the word ‘read’ and we’ll DM you a link to Douglas’s article.

25/07/2024

'In order for a picture-postcard version of Paris to be maintained there will be 45,000 members of the French security forces and an additional 10,000 soldiers on duty. Does that seem to you to be a society at peace?'

✍️ Douglas Murray

25/07/2024

‘Despite promises of best behaviour, MPs worry the leadership race could degenerate fast. ‘I think it will turn into in-fighting quickly which is why I think we should have gone for it more quickly,’ says one.’

✍️ Katy Balls

25/07/2024

'What Democrats can’t bring themselves to say out loud is that Harris would never be the nominee were it not for extraordinary circumstances.'

✍️ Kate Andrews

24/07/2024

Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer was given an easy ride at his first Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons today.

24/07/2024

The Chinese Communist party is rarely shy about highlighting America’s chaotic politics. State media and the CCP’s growing army of bots enthusiastically prowl around western social media, inserting themselves in the most difficult of debates, seeking to sow distrust.

24/07/2024

Team GB equestrian star Charlotte Dujardin has pulled out of the Paris 2024 Olympics after a video emerged of her whipping a horse

24/07/2024

Labour won the election on a campaign of change and its politicians certainly have a knack for, um, changing their minds. Sir Keir has made some fascinating U-turns over the years, and it now appears that Lisa Nandy has a taken a leaf out of his book.

24/07/2024

There was a ripple of shock across the House of Commons on Tuesday night after Keir Starmer withdrew the whip from seven Labour MPs for backing an amendment on lifting the two-child benefit cap. Parliament’s new awkward squad includes some familiar faces of the Labour left, such as John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana.

24/07/2024

James Cleverly, the first official Tory leadership contender, has today ruled out a merger with Reform if he becomes Tory leader in November. After announcing his candidacy in an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph, the shadow home secretary was quick to get across the airwaves today.

24/07/2024

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating in no uncertain terms that world war three is possible. Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK, who is also his country’s former top commander, has suggested that other countries can prepare by learning from what is happening in Ukraine.

24/07/2024

In a vote last night on an amendment to axe the two child benefit cap, seven Labour MPs lost the whip. But will they get it back?