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Oct 20, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Ed Nash
In 2018 an event occurred that really deserved more attention. A military parade was being addressed by Nicolás Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, and two small, explosive-laden drones exploded. The attack was unsuccessful (Maduro survived) but around ten people were injured. The use of targeted drones represented a new phase of terrorism. We are now a long way from the comparatively primitive efforts of 2018.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Ed Nash
As Rachel Reeves prepares what is potentially the most difficult Budget in a generation, a question occurs: what if the Conservatives had, somehow, won the election? Historians hate counterfactuals, considering them unhelpful parlour-games. Personally, I enjoy a good ‘what if’ – not least because they can help put current political events in context. In that
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |Michael Evans |Ed Nash |Paul Wood
Israel carried out its largest-scale operation against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon yesterday since the summer war of 2006. Wave after wave, Israeli aircraft struck at 1,600 targets across Lebanon with the aim of targeting Hezbollah weapons stores. Four hundred and ninety-two people were killed, according to figures issued by the Lebanese authorities. After nearly twelve months of controlled escalation on Israel’s northern border, we are now potentially on the cusp of all-out war.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Christopher Harding |Alexander Larman |Ed Nash |Ian Williams
“Everywhere I could see India, yet I could not recognize it.” So said India’s great national poet Rabindranath Tagore of South-East Asia, after traveling there in 1927. Tagore was fascinated by how elements of ancient Indian culture had found their way eastwards: gods, temple architecture, the Sanskrit language and the great epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ed Nash |FoodVitello tonnato |Olivia Potts |Lucasta Miller
The toll wreaked from the events of September 17 and 18 has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more than 3,500 people were injured and thirty-seven were killed. The events I’m referring to, of course, were the sudden and surprise explosions of thousands of electronic devices, carried (in the majority) by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Ed Nash
The toll wreaked from the events of 17 and 18 September has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more than 3,500 people were injured and 37 were killed. The events I’m referring to, of course, were the sudden and surprise explosions of thousands of electronic devices, carried (in the majority) by members of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Ed Nash
Say what you like about Steven Patrick Morrissey – lead singer of The Smiths, the Mancunian miserabilist, ‘the Pope of Mope’ etc – but he has a knack, nearly four decades after his band dissolved acrimoniously, for coming out with attention- and headline-grabbing pronouncements. At first glance these declarations might seem like revelatory news stories,
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Delingpole |Alexander Larman |Ed Nash |FoodVitello tonnato
Kaos is a new Netflix gods-and-monsters black-comedy blockbuster that will scorch your screen and fry your brain like a thunderbolt from Zeus. It’s sick, cynical, brutal and very, very dark but it’s so well acted, ingeniously plotted, moving, inventive, funny and addictive that I fear resistance may be futile.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Max Jeffery |Christopher Harding |Alexander Larman |Ed Nash
Essex, EnglandIt’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m getting psyched up to go catch a pedophile with the boys. Playlist on, rocking down the A12 and chatting to my new mate, Nick, in his van. There’s a man not far from here who thinks he’s going to meet an underage girl tonight. He doesn’t know that we’ll be pulling up instead and that his sick fantasy — and his life as he knows it — will be over. Nick is a guy I met on Facebook who runs a team of pedophile hunters called London Overwatch.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Nicholas Farrell |Alexander Larman |Ed Nash |FoodVitello tonnato
Dante’s Beach, RavennaIn my life I have nearly killed myself mainly with cigarettes and alcohol and dangerous journeys into the night. I have experienced what awaits you in those places but it is not the sort of thing you can easily talk about or even put into words. It is perhaps too secret. I am also usually skint, so all in all I do not exactly fit the bill as a solid and reliable father figure who commands respect.
