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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Julius Strauss |Roger Kimball
Violence broke out in Bucharest on Sunday evening after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau disqualified Cǎlin Georgescu from running in May’s re-run presidential election.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Maggie Fergusson |Alexander Larman |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Sara Wheeler
I am married to a wood snob. When we bought our house in 1999, my husband insisted that all the shelves (he is an antiquarian book dealer, so there are miles of them) should be made of “real” wood, with not an inch of Medium Density Fibreboard. The price made me squeal. But a quarter of a century on, while friends’ MDF shelving droops like cables between telegraph poles, ours remains beautifully strong and straight.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Adrian Pascu-Tulbure
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Alexander Kolyandr |Michael Evans
Strange things are happening again in global politics. In Romania, a former UN sustainability advisor who has made admiring remarks about the fascist 1930s Iron Guard movement has just won the first round of the presidential elections. If you like Andrew Tate, the notorious “manosphere” influencer who also happens to be a Romanian resident, you’ll love Calin Georgescu. A trim sixty-two-year-old former national judo champion, he likes to post videos of himself swimming in ice on TikTok.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Adrian Pascu-Tulbure
Strange things are happening again in global politics. In Romania, a former UN sustainability adviser who has made admiring remarks about the fascist 1930s Iron Guard movement has just won the first round of the presidential elections. If you like Andrew Tate, the notorious ‘manosphere’ influencer who also happens to be a Romanian resident, you’ll love Calin Georgescu. A trim 62-year-old former national judo champion, he likes to post videos of himself swimming in ice on TikTok.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Adrian Pascu-Tulbure
Strange things are happening again in global politics. In Romania, a former UN sustainability adviser who has made admiring remarks about the fascist 1930s Iron Guard movement has just won the first round of the presidential elections. If you like Andrew Tate, the notorious ‘manosphere’ influencer who also happens to be a Romanian resident, you’ll love Calin Georgescu.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Michael Karam |David Honigmann |CarsThe joy |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure
The recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that’s not yet officially a war, initiated by a political party without a mandate that takes its orders from Tehran, in support of a Palestinian party that few Lebanese care about. Hezbollah was the jewel in the mullah’s turbanIt is a decades-old conflict, an exhausting, deadly stalemate, but this recent escalation could prove to be decisive. There’s a chance Israel could finally deliver a dagger blow to Hezbollah.
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Sep 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | Michael Karam |David Honigmann |CarsThe joy |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure
The recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah is a war that’s not yet officially a war, initiated by a political party without a mandate that takes its orders from Tehran, in support of a Palestinian party that few Lebanese care about. Hezbollah was the jewel in the mullah’s turbanIt is a decades-old conflict, an exhausting, deadly stalemate, but this recent escalation could prove to be decisive. There’s a chance Israel could finally deliver a dagger blow to Hezbollah.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | David Honigmann |CarsThe joy |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Ian Williams
Joe Boyd’s masterly history of what some of us still defiantly call World Music, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, takes its title from Paul Simon’s “Under African Skies,” but is really less about the roots of rhythm than its routes.
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Sep 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | David Honigmann |CarsThe joy |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Ian Williams
Joe Boyd’s masterly history of what some of us still defiantly call World Music, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, takes its title from Paul Simon’s “Under African Skies,” but is really less about the roots of rhythm than its routes.
