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3 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Paul du Quenoy |Teresa Mull |Alexander Larman
The Wall Street Journal has published an eye-opening exposé on Elon Musk’s “harem drama,” diving into the relationships the world’s richest man has with his baby mamas – and the labyrinthine system by which he allegedly manages them. Musk is on a mission to help “seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence,” per the Journal’s Dana Mattioli. The White House senior advisor has at least 14 children by four different mothers – though this number is thought to be higher.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Julie Burchill |James Walton |Ben Domenech |Teresa Mull
Back in the 20th century, there was a trend for beautiful female film stars to compare themselves to comical or unattractive animals. Michelle Pfeiffer insisted that she looked like a duck; Uma Thurman claimed to resemble a hammer-head shark. Not just actresses; there was a song by Pink, in which the then 23-year-old, size-six blonde babe with the snub nose and big eyes beat herself up for not being conventionally pretty like Britney Spears.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Ben Domenech |Ella Dorn |James Fishback
Forget whisky, cars or chemicals. The real blow to the British economy from President Trump’s determination to impose steep tariffs on everything the United States imports from the rest of the world is still to come. Over the next few days, Trump plans to unveil levies on pharmaceuticals. And if the UK can’t find a way of carving out an exemption from that, it will do huge damage to us at the worst possible moment.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Ben Clerkin |Raheem Kassam |Paul du Quenoy
It’s no mystery how Democrats plan to attack Republicans over the coming year and a half: tie them to Elon Musk like a billionaire-sized string of dynamite. They’re doing it already, and intend to ramp it up to 11. Yet Republicans don’t seem to have an answer for how to deal with it – and saying “Musk isn’t on the ballot, I am” isn’t an answer. There was a significant portion of time where Republicans struggled to figure out how to defend Donald Trump, but they’ve solved that problem.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Julie Burchill |James Walton |Teresa Mull |Ben Domenech
Back in the 20th century, there was a trend for beautiful female film stars to compare themselves to comical or unattractive animals. Michelle Pfeiffer insisted that she looked like a duck; Uma Thurman claimed to resemble a hammer-head shark. Not just actresses; there was a song by Pink, in which the then 23-year-old, size-six blonde babe with the snub nose and big eyes beat herself up for not being conventionally pretty like Britney Spears.
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4 weeks ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Aidan McLaughlin |Rod Liddle |Ben Domenech
If you were worried about disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo being too “hands-on” during his run for New York mayor, fear not: the Love Gov’s campaign has an impersonal touch to it. Local news site Hell Gate exposed how the 29-page housing plan released by the Cuomo campaign bore the hallmarks of being partially put together using ChatGPT. One particularly unparsable passage: Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Paul du Quenoy |Dot Wordsworth |Kara Kennedy |Ben Domenech
“I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her.’ I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.” That embarrassing exercise in self-parody was how the former vice president of the United States chose to introduce herself at a July 2022 roundtable on how the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade could affect disabled people. Harris’s pandering indulgence in radical gender ideology barely attracted notice at the time.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Kara Kennedy |Kate Andrews |Peter Watson |Ben Domenech
Tiffany Trump’s baby shower photos emerged this week, a Peter Rabbit-themed extravaganza thrown by her sister Ivanka in a Palm Beach mansion, so lavish that Beatrix Potter would have needed a second mortgage to attend. Think balloon arches as big as monuments, themed cocktails and swag bags worth more than your monthly car payment.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Piers Morgan |Ben Domenech
Last year, I wrote a feature for this magazine in which, disturbed by the apparent revival in the British gangster genre, I counseled a degree of caution as to its practitioners’ apparent lack of discernment in their approach to the tropes and clichés of the tradition.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech |Jacob Heilbrunn
Cockburn wishes farewell to karaoke mainstay and watches baseball fans fightDC is evolving. Cockburn honored the memory of Hill Country Barbecue Karaoke on Wednesday night, ahead of the downtown hotspot closing its doors for good today. No tickets were available at the door and the line snaked throughout the restaurant as Hill staffers, hacks and college students pored in for one last singalong. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
