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Jan 19, 2025 | thespectator.com | Gareth Roberts |Julie Bindel |Drea de Matteo |Alexander Larman

OnlyFans content creator Bonnie Blue claims to have broken a world record by sleeping with over a thousand men in twelve hours. I say “slept with” but obviously the euphemism doesn’t really apply to this dubious feat. Blue, who was born in England but now lives in the United States, added to the glamour of the occasion by uploading a video of the aftermath, where she walks the streets with her face covered in what appears to be a pot pourri of male ejaculate.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Peter Jones |Marc Oestreich |Drea de Matteo |Boris Johnson

Former British PM Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed imagines him, like Cincinnatus, leaving his plow, saving Rome, and returning to it. But given that Boris is among the international elite, perhaps Alcibiades (c. 451-404 BC) would fit him better. Athenian elites had long had connections with the other powerbrokers of the classical Greek world, Sparta and Persia.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Marc Oestreich |Drea de Matteo |Charles Lipson |Ben Domenech

I’ll be upfront: I’m skeptical of the trans movement. Not the individuals within it, but the broader cultural shift that prioritizes feelings over facts and subjectivity over objective reality. Yet, despite my reservations, I have deep empathy for those grappling with identity confusion — an experience that must be profoundly disorienting. My concern is that we’re accelerating this confusion by feeding a culture obsessed with validation.

Nov 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Drea de Matteo |Roger Kimball |Amber Duke |Ben Domenech

Nov 22, 2023 | reelviews.net | Drea de Matteo |James Berardinelli

When it comes to historical epics, Ridley Scott has acheckered past and Napoleon, his bio-pic of the early-19thcentury ruler of France, doesn’t change that. An uneven and historicallyquestionable examination of the man behind the legend, the movie attempts towed spectacle with drama, interweaving impeccably recreated battle sequenceswith the soap opera-ish romantic angst of the marriage of the title character(Joaquin Phoenix) with Empress Josephine (Vanessa Kirby).