FoodCamari Mick

Jul 29, 2023 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Helen Brown |Fredrik Erixon |FoodCamari Mick

Emmanuel Macron broke his silence about the recent riots in France at the start of this week. In a speech in New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific, the president of the Republic declared that the country required a “return to authority at every level.”  He added: “The lesson I draw from this is order, order, order.”There was a certain irony to the president’s proclamation. He spoke as a crisis erupted in France, at the heart of which is a power struggle between the police and the justice system.

Jul 29, 2023 | thespectator.com | Helen Brown |Fredrik Erixon |FoodCamari Mick |Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

Feminism? Pfft! Marianne Faithfull practically spat the word at me when I interviewed her in 2017. Then she rowed back, conceding that she’d spent most of her life “standing up for women’s rights… I’ve had to.”In chronic pain with arthritis, she’d struggled into a comfy chair while directing me to squat on the mucky floor at her feet. Who could blame her?

Jul 29, 2023 | thespectator.com | Fredrik Erixon |Helen Brown |FoodCamari Mick |Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), dropped the bomb last weekend. In a TV interview, Merz opened the door for collaboration with Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the nationalist-populist party that is home to Germany’s cabal of crackpots and right-wing extremists.

Jul 28, 2023 | thespectator.com | Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore |Oliver Wiseman |Jawad Iqbal |FoodCamari Mick

“I was really fascinated with the process, the science behind everything,” recalls Camari Mick, the now twenty-nine-year-old star pastry chef, who studied anatomy in high school. “I love true crime: I was very into Snapped and crime junkie podcasts.”When she approached her parents, however, they asked her to reconsider.