Alys Key

Nov 26, 2023 | thespectator.com | Oren Harman |Freddy Gray |Andrew McQuillan |Alys Key

Origin stories have always helped humans gain a moral compass. Locked in a tight embrace, the Maori deities Rangi and Papa are separated by their enveloped children, creating the distant father sky and nurturing Mother Earth, bringing light to the world. Mayan gods fashion man from maize after destroying earlier clay and wood versions, who are seen to have no soul. Adam and Eve eat from the Tree of Life but illicitly also from the Tree of Knowledge.

Nov 25, 2023 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Andrew McQuillan |Alys Key |Henry Olsen

It’s not often that the New York Times has a prophetic vision. In 2021, the paper ran a fawning profile of Calla Walsh, a high-schooler leading an “army of sixteen-year-olds” against Massachusetts’s Democratic establishment. Now all grown up, Walsh has become a general to a violent group of diligent protesters. Walsh, now a committed communist, was arrested on Monday morning at a defense contractor facility in New Hampshire along with two other women.

Nov 24, 2023 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Andrew McQuillan |Alys Key |Henry Olsen

Geert Wilders’s victory is another slap-in-the-face moment for the European Union. The complexities of Dutch democracy may mean that he struggles to form a strong government. But his victory, which seemed impossible just a few weeks ago, reminds us that, whether we like it or not, anti-immigration politics is the most potent force in twenty-first century western democracies.

Nov 24, 2023 | thespectator.com | Andrew McQuillan |Alys Key |Henry Olsen |FilmRidley Scott’s Napoleon

The situation in Dublin Thursday — in which five people were injured in a knife attack in the heart of the city, resulting in a riot and violent clashes with the police — was to the untrained eye reminiscent of Belfast from days gone by. Speculation about the nationality of the attacker fueled the scenes of violence which took place last night and that has led to condemnatory tutting. After all, Ireland’s national myth is tied into tales of immigration and welcoming.

Nov 23, 2023 | thespectator.com | Alys Key |Amber Athey |Amy Everett |Melanie Ferbreach

The sirens sound in the street. The lockdown order comes. The images on the television are of chaos and illness, total societal collapse. The apocalypse is here, and where are the rich? Already holed up in their survival compounds, ready to ride out the end of the world before emerging to take control of what’s left of it for themselves.