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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer |Michael Evans
For the past several months, it’s been well apparent that Donald Trump is winning this election. There are numerous factors that would indicate this. Early vote numbers are distinctly more Republican-leaning than they have been historically. Behind-the-scenes reports among Democrats indicate high levels of buyer’s remorse for picking Kamala Harris — and additional doubts about the failure to pick a higher-quality vice presidential candidate.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Michael Evans |Zack Christenson
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday for a three day state visit, during which time he will discuss trade and security. Among his entourage is Yassine Belattar, a light entertainer with a controversial past. In September last year, the forty-two-year-old Franco-Moroccan was found guilty by a Paris court of making death threats against the screenwriter and director Kader Aoun. Belattar was given a four-month suspended sentence and he was also ordered to pay damages to an actor.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Ben Domenech |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Michael Evans
Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday for a three-day state visit, during which time he will discuss trade and security. Among his entourage is Yassine Belattar, a light entertainer with a controversial past. In September last year, the forty-two-year-old Franco-Moroccan was found guilty by a Paris court of making death threats against the screenwriter and director Kader Aoun. Belattar was given a four-month suspended sentence and he was also ordered to pay damages to an actor.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Juan P. Villasmil |Ben Domenech |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer
It’s Joever. The president of the United States has announced that he is out of the race and thrown his support behind “Coconut Tree” Kamala Harris. On its face, this may sound like good news for overly confident Republican strategists. Harris may not be fossilized, but she still shares responsibility for her administration’s failures. Polls show that she is roughly as popular as Biden.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Matt McDonald |Matthew Lynn |Europe Emmanuel Macron
The biggest question in politics right now has to be: why is Kristi Noem doing this to herself? Let’s do a quick recap. The South Dakota governor is your classic Tea Party-era politician, running for Congress in 2010 and beating an incumbent Democrat. When she arrived in Washington, she was a reliable Republican vote for the anti-Obama House majority — anti-tax, pro-Keystone, anti-abortion, pro-balanced budget, drill baby drill. Her congressional career was pretty unremarkable.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Matt McDonald |Matthew Lynn |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer
Stephanie Clifford, the adult film star and director who performs under the name Stormy Daniels, took the stand in Donald Trump’s “hush-money” trial in Manhattan today, vividly describing the sexual encounter between them in 2006. Unlike with previous witnesses, where Trump has seemed tired or disengaged, the former president paid close attention to Daniels’s testimony, according to reporters in the courtroom.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer |Roger Kimball
It happened by accident. In 1829 the naturalist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward was trying to hatch a moth pupa. He placed it in a sealed glass container, along with some soil and dried leaves, and set it aside. Sometime later he was surprised to find that a fern and some grass had taken root in the soil, despite having no water.
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May 7, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Roger Kimball |Limor Simhony Philpott
Try as he might Emmanuel Macron and his party are unable to arrest the popularity of the National Rally. A month out from the European elections, the latest poll has their principal candidate, Jordan Bardella, on thirty-two points, double the score of Macron’s representative, Valerie Hayer.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Amy Everett |Ben Domenech |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer
Halloween traditions might hail from All Hallows’ Eve, the Christian celebration preceding All Saints’ Day, but that has roots in Samhain — a Celtic pagan festival. Long before Westerners carved pumpkins come fall, the Scots were sticking knives into “neeps” (turnips). Disguised children (“guisers”) warded off evil spirits on the streets of Scotland centuries before brats in Gryffindor scarves demanded Twinkies.
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Aug 4, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Christopher Bray |Tanith Carey |Europe Emmanuel Macron |Gavin Mortimer
There has been no shortage of reminders of the gerontocracy in which we live lately. Last week brought two in the Senate. One was Mitch McConnell’s worrying freeze-up at a press conference when he had to be helped away from reporters. The second came courtesy of Dianne Feinstein, who had to be prompted several times when asked to cast her vote on the Defense Appropriations Bill. “Say aye,” Senator Patty Murray of Washington told her ninety-year-old colleague from California.
