Gwythian Prins

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Arabella Byrne |Gwythian Prins

I am not, nor ever have been, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein. Yet, after I wrote a piece earlier this week commenting on Meghan Markle’s peculiar decision to change the name of her lifestyle brand America Riviera Orchard to As Ever, this was merely one of the things I was accused of being. Within hours of the story being published, I was inundated with a level of online abuse that swiftly went from the intimidating to the unintentionally hilarious, so vitriolic and overblown was its content.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Grace Curley |Gwythian Prins |Julius Strauss |Mark Galeotti

When your fiercest loyalists are accusing your government of being taken over by Elon Musk, who they brand a “parasitic illegal immigrant,” what’s the best way to respond? Donald Trump opted for a side-by-side interview with the X CEO on Fox News, speaking to Sean Hannity, the anchor with whom he remains friendliest. And for all the attempts — both from inside and outside the conservative tent — to drive a wedge between Trump and tech billionaire Musk, the two seemed chummier than ever before.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Gwythian Prins |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller

Usually, by the time the BAFTAs — now comfortably established, along with the Golden Globes, as a dress rehearsal for the Oscars — roll around, it is fairly clear which film or films are likely to be taking gold at the Academy Awards next month. Thanks to the often frenzied behind-the-scenes lobbying and intriguing of various well-paid publicists, a storyline will emerge, and it is only in relatively rare cases that there will be a genuine surprise on the night.

2 months ago | thespectator.com | Gwythian Prins |Mark Galeotti |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball

Political science uses anemic jargon. The “Overton Window” frames all topics that at any given moment are deemed to be politically respectable. It moves. However, since Trump’s inauguration on January 20 we need more robust imagery. POTUS — Mr. Trump — is the captain of an ice-bound ship and he has been dynamiting the pack ice to get it free. Sequenced, linked charges have been exploded to create open water leads. The shock waves have global importance.

Oct 15, 2024 | lucianne.com | Gwythian Prins

Original ArticlePosted By: FlyRight, 10/15/2024 6:24:35 AMSuch were the mutilations that not a single corpse of a girl or a woman was in a state fit to be shown to her family before burial. [W]ithin days of the atrocities, the global moral compass had swung 180 degrees.