Oscars 2019: does Green Book deserve to be called ‘lying white guilt trash’?
It was a big night for Rami Malek and the Green Book team, and a big night for me too. My palms,…
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: Anarchy and Empire with Robert Kaplan
This week, I’m casting the pod with author and foreign policy analyst Robert Kaplan. At the end of the Cold…
Amos Oz, a giant of Israeli literature and politics
In Western democracies, literature no longer matters to politics. Once, literature and politics could co-exist on the same typewriter or…
The Green Room, Spectator USA’s Life & Arts podcast: The Greek way of death
As the old year dies, our thoughts turn to what happens next. What better time, then, to cast a seasonally…
Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks: Our final interview
RIP Pete Shelley. I would suggest three minutes silence, but Buzzcocks would have said it all in 2 minutes and…
The Green Room Podcast from Spectator USA: What do we get? Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks
Two poets named Shelley have graced the English language. One was Percy, and the other is Pete. Just as an…
Life & Arts Podcast: Heather Mac Donald on how race and gender pandering corrupts universities
This week on the Spectator USA Life & Arts podcast, I’m casting the pod with Heather Mac Donald. A scholar…
In a tech-obsessed world, only Generation X can fight back
This week on the Spectator USA Life ’n’ Arts podcast, I’m casting the pod with Matthew Hennessey. He’s an editor…
Was May attacking Trump in New York, or a blond populist closer to home?
This article was originally published on Spectator USA. Did British prime minister Theresa May take a shot at Donald Trump…
Boris Johnson summons the spirit of Churchill in Washington DC
Boris Johnson landed in Washington, DC on Thursday evening just ahead of Hurricane Florence, and leaving far behind the attentions…
Israel at 70: there’s no failure like success
On Wednesday, Israel marks seventy years of statehood. When David Ben Gurion declared independence on May 14th, 1948—the anniversary floats…
Bombing Syria would be a grave mistake
‘The whole of the Balkans,’ Otto von Bismarck said, ‘is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.’ He…
The West’s defeat in Syria is complete
The Syrian civil war is in its endgame, and the ‘political solution’ that the leaders of the Western democracy talk…
The 2018 Oscars were indulgent, overlong, and weirdly amateurish — again
It was always going to be difficult for this year’s Oscars to balance politics and entertainment, the sweeping declaration with…
Oscars 2018: and the winners are…
Tomorrow night, TV viewers will take to their couches for a night of Hollywood glamour, razzmatazz and gross hypocrisy. A…
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