Harry Cochrane

Aug 20, 2024 | thespectator.com | Lucasta Miller |Ben Clerkin |Philip Hensher |Harry Cochrane

I’ve just returned from five days in the Lake District, attending the biennial “Friends of Coleridge” conference in Grasmere. All the other attendees were seasoned Coleridge scholars, but I was a newbie.

Aug 11, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Harry Cochrane

Poet WH Auden (right) with fellow author Christopher Isherwood in 1938 Credit: Paul Popper/Popperfoto via Getty Images “No man is an island,” John Donne famously said.

May 23, 2024 | thespectator.com | Sam Kriss |Ben Domenech |Harry Cochrane

Action films are boring. This isn’t really an opinion, it’s just demonstrably true. Try it for yourself: put on any high-octane, orange-and-teal action movie from the last fifteen years and see how long it takes before you start automatically fiddling around with your phone. I can usually make it about five minutes. This is weird. I can deal with all the incredibly sedate cinematic vegetables just fine, but as soon as there are gunfights or chases involved I get distracted. I think I know why.

May 23, 2024 | thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Harry Cochrane |Europe Why

A record number of countries will hold elections this, including Britain on July 4 and the United States on November 5. These two great powers — each with a veto at the UN — have enjoyed a bond that has survived for so long, is it known on both sides of the Atlantic as “the Special Relationship.”There have been stand-offs: Britain refused to join the war in Vietnam, and when Argentina seized the Falkland Islands in 1982, the US did not intervene.

May 23, 2024 | thespectator.com | Ben Domenech |Harry Cochrane |Europe Why |Ian O’Doherty

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. This old adage has taken on a new meaning for the left as Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is developing a bit of a habit for displaying allegedly “far-right” flags. In under a week, the New York Times has unearthed images of dissident flags waving proudly at the justice’s house on two separate occasions, leaving Democrats clamoring about judicial ethics.