Will this election be a lesson to anyone? Out now: the December 2024 World edition of The Spectator World. With Aidan McLaughlin, Amber Duke, Benjamin Domenech, Bridget Phetasy, Charles Lipson, Drea de Matteo, Stephen L. Miller, Roger Kimball and more. Subscribe: thespectator.com/subscribe

"Staten Island offers the spiritual antonym to elitist performances such as the Met Gala and the Oscars that peddle a distortion of American life." trib.al/wYhZlTq

"Let me make it clear: I’m just as desperate for the love and attention of strangers as the next sad sack. But we’re all embarrassed to admit it because intelligent, well-read and critically aware people are meant to be above such crass cravings." trib.al/0HeeHAq

It’s lucky we have a famously competent state, a well-funded health service, & courts with plenty of time on their hands, or I’d be worrying that this is a terrible decision

A pilgrimage to St. Francis’s holy sanctuary at La Verna: there’s a fairytale quality that permeates this land. thespectator.com/life/pilgrimag…

Under the skin of Seville trib.al/AoRewIZ

'London is the city that survived the Black Death and the Blitz, the Great Fire and Gordon Brown.' ✍️ Sean Thomas buff.ly/4g0ALIO

Who really lost when the Berlin Wall fell? We’re becoming what the communists hated Spectator Life spectator.co.uk/article/who-re…

Palestinians could do worse than setting up home in Somaliland. The people of the unrecognised east African country know a thing or two about recovering from the ravages of war. The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/1…

Excellent

The latest installment in the Berlin chronicles; seems apt as the Berliners and Germans go to the polls: spectator.co.uk/article/who-re…

Solid opening line, and one that increasingly preys on my mind as an Americanophile: "Like reconstituted chickens, culture wars and so much else that makes us sick and sad, it started in America." newstatesman.com/politics/media…

No idea if this is true, but it sounds bloody good: each line is a zinger.

Planned Parenthood is not a struggling healthcare provider—it’s a partisan political powerhouse profiting off of vulnerable women without providing quality care. firstthings.com/its-time-to-de…

BBC Northern Ireland is the Beebiest part of the Beeb. At The Critic thecritic.co.uk/bbc-northern-i…

One of the best contemporary writers around today on bull fighting -- Christopher North The Critic:

This will be [was] the first clickbait conclave, and everyone will be following [then and now still] telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/0…

'They want to feel like men': Why are gen Z men turning to rightwing politics? theguardian.com/politics/video… theguardian.com/politics/video…