Ella Dorn

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Ella Dorn |Christopher Caldwell |Alex Castellanos |Alexander Larman

For the first half of the 2010s, any teenage girl in her room had a chance of amassing more political influence than a junior government advisor. She could define political terms and concepts, blacklist undesirable elements and argue for a different kind of society. Thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of other teenage girls would be following her, reading and engaging. These were the days of Tumblr, a youth blogging website that functioned like a dysfunctional think tank.

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Ella Dorn |Ani Wilcenski |Theo Hobson

I was determined to write something positive about Blue Origin’s “historic all-female spaceflight.” The spectacle was an all-American underdog story. Jeff Bezos worked his way up from dorky book salesman to buff billionaire who can launch his busty bride-to-be into space alongside some celebrities — because hey, why not? Then I saw the group photos of the girl gang, and I just couldn’t. My resolve dissolved faster than the lip fillers in Khloé Kardashian’s fake face.

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Ross Clark |Michael Evans |Ella Dorn

When President Trump held up an easel in the White House Rose Garden illustrating each country’s “tariffs charged to the USA” and the new “USA discounted reciprocal tariffs”, there appeared to be some small print underneath the first column, barely readable. Then printed copies started to circulate the garden.

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Ella Dorn |Magdalene Taylor |Ian Williams |Cosmo Landesman

Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want men with above-average incomes, but the gender pay gap has been reversed – young women now out-earn men. They want men who share their politics, but in almost every western country over the past decade or so, women have slid to the left while men have remained centrist.

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Ella Dorn |Ross Clark |Magdalene Taylor |Ian Williams

Women’s expectations are off. They want men with advanced degrees, but on university campuses, women outnumber their male counterparts. They want men with above-average incomes, but the gender pay gap has been reversed – young women now outearn men. They want men who share their politics, but in almost every western country over the past decade or so, women have slid to the left while men have remained centrist.