Europe Joining NATO

Oct 22, 2024 | thespectator.com | Francis Pike |Amy Everett |Europe Joining NATO |Owen Matthews

On the November 15 Xi Jinping will mark the twelfth anniversary of his becoming general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party — the sixth paramount leader in China since Mao Zedong established communist rule in 1949. One of the consistent features of Xi’s rule has been China’s hostility to India. People’s Liberation Army incursions across Indian borders became a given. So, the announcement yesterday that India and China have reached a Himalayan border agreement comes as something of a surprise.

Oct 22, 2024 | thespectator.com | Amy Everett |Europe Joining NATO |Owen Matthews |Marc Oestreich

Asked how best to get to know new cultures, travel luminary Anthony Bourdain once said: “Drink heavily with locals whenever possible.”This series is about getting pickled with people far cooler than I am, wherever I’ve washed up. Fast-paced, cacophonous, always surprising; if Mumbai is the hub of India’s creative scene, Soho House Mumbai is the home of its creative set.

Oct 22, 2024 | thespectator.com | John MacArthur |Europe Joining NATO |Owen Matthews |Ryan M. Spaeder

No one should be put off reading Patrick Cockburn’s remarkable biography of his father by its misleading subtitle. “Guerrilla journalism” doesn’t do justice to its subject. The suggestion of irregular warfare from the left underrates Claud Cockburn’s great accomplishments in mainstream politics and journalism and doesn’t begin to embrace the romantic and daring complexity of his life and career.

Oct 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Owen Matthews |Ryan M. Spaeder |Daniel DePetris |Europe Joining NATO

Ukraine’s President Zelensky was in London last week — as well as Paris, Rome, Berlin and Dubrovnik — asking for NATO membership. In every city, he heard the same “not yet” as he’d received in Washington last month. Some of Kyiv’s western allies believe membership is the only way to guarantee Ukraine’s independence. Russia has never attacked a NATO country, because of the Article 5 guarantee that an attack against one is an attack against all.

Oct 21, 2024 | thespectator.com | Daniel McCarthy |Amy Everett |Europe Joining NATO |Owen Matthews

Is it ironic to give a prize for encouraging “open discussion and debate in the classroom” and “creating an environment where all perspectives can be heard” in the name of William F. Buckley Jr.?