Curtis Yarvin

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin

Charlie Brooker’s cautionary technological tales have now been running for well over a decade, and they are almost in danger of seeming old-fashioned. When Black Mirror began in 2011, Instagram was only a few months old, the iPhone was a new novelty just coming into the mainstream, and Elon Musk was best known for being CEO of Tesla. Now, virtually everything in the world has changed, and Big Tech plays roles in our lives that the ever-cynical Brooker could barely have imagined.

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Lee Cohen |Alexander Larman |Curtis Yarvin |Peter Pomerantsev

Prince Harry’s clandestine dash to Ukraine this week, trailing last year’s faux royal tours to Colombia and Nigeria, lays bare a brazen hypocrisy. He bangs on about the UK being too perilous for his family, waging legal crusades over security provisions, yet here he is, swanning into war zones and countries with travel warnings, trading on his fading royal luster to clutch at relevance – all while dodging the duties he willingly jettisoned.

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Freddy Gray |Curtis Yarvin |Peter Pomerantsev

Two days ago, talk of a 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” was branded “fake news” by the White House. This afternoon, the President has confirmed a 90-day pause on the higher tariff rates on all countries apart from China. “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” the President shared.

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin |Peter Pomerantsev

China hit back on Wednesday with an additional 50 percent tariff on US imports, matching the extra levy imposed overnight by Donald Trump on Chinese goods. That made the running totals 104 percent so far from Washington, vs 84 percent from Beijing, prompting one analyst to compare them to two racing cars driving straight at each other in a high stakes game of chicken.

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Ed West |Daniel McCarthy |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin

Itry to avoid expressing strong opinions on foreign party politics, because I enjoy the luxury of not having to. From an outside perspective, American politics seems dominated by two quite extreme fringes, the only difference being that the mad things believed by Democrats tend to be aped by British elites, and therefore have an impact on our everyday lives here.