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Nov 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Travis Elborough |Matt Ridley |Ruaridh Nicoll |Harry Ritchie
In 2019, Kate Bush felt the need to issue statement on her website clarifying that she was not a supporter of the Britain’s Conservative Party.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Harry Ritchie |Lisa Haseldine |Sam Leith
President-elect Donald Trump is slowly revealing who will — and who will not — be a part of his second administration come 2025. As a reminder, last week Trump announced campaign co-manager Susie Wiles as his chief-of-staff. Over the weekend, Trump rebuffed Nikki Haley, who previously served as Trump’s UN ambassador, and Mike Pompeo, who was Trump’s secretary of state.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Harry Ritchie |Lisa Haseldine |Sam Leith
As the finger-pointing begins, and the autopsy of the Kamala Harris campaign continues, financial details are being released on how the Harris campaign managed to blow more than $1 billion in war-chest funds — and not only lose, but get wiped off the electoral map by Donald Trump, who ended his campaign with roughly $488 million. That’s not a Dr. Evil typo: Kamala Harris not only blew a billion dollars, but actually ended up $20 million in debt. Where did the money all go?
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Harry Ritchie |Lisa Haseldine |John Keiger |Michael Moorcock
There are about 7,000 languages currently spoken on this planet. By the end of this century, all but 600 will have disappeared — the inevitable result of an unstoppable process as the last speakers of the world’s little languages die out, usually leaving no trace, for the vast majority are spoken only, with no written record. But even languages which have had the good fortune to be written down face their own extinction as their individual writing systems struggle to survive.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Sean Thomas |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Harry Ritchie |Amy Everett
How many Spectator readers are aware that tiny Montenegro, that silver sixpence of south-east Europe, so long lost in the jumbled purse of geopolitics, has some of the deepest canyons in the world? Not many, I’d bet — we know the luscious Montenegrin Mediterranean coast, if we know anything. And I’d wager even fewer know that one such abyss, the Tara River Canyon, is one of the fastest watercourses on the continent.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Harry Ritchie
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Global Exploration of the Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing Quercus, pp.256, 30 There are about 7,000 languages currently spoken on this planet. By the end of this century, all but 600 will have disappeared – the inevitable result of an unstoppable process as the last speakers of the world’s little languages die out, usually leaving no trace, for the vast majority are spoken only, with no written record.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Harry Ritchie
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Harry Ritchie Celebrating Sequoyah and his Cherokee alphabet Linkedin Messenger Email An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A Global Exploration of the Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing Tim Brookes Quercus, pp. 256, £30 Weekly delivery of the magazine Unlimited access to our website and app Enjoy Spectator newsletters and podcasts Explore our online archive, going back to 1828...
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Philip Hensher |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Harry Ritchie |Mary Wakefield
The empire of LEGO has many dominions and protectorates, with every year, it seems, new territories to conquer. There are theme parks; there are films of excruciatingly ironic sophistication; there are competitions to make bizarre tableaux that grip nations; there are highly controlled TV documentaries about life at the heart of LEGO in Denmark.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Robin Ashenden |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Harry Ritchie |Douglas Murray
There are many good reasons, we’re constantly told, for millennials and Generation Z to resent their elders. What they can barely imagine, we took for granted: affordable housing, for instance. But there is another justification for their envy, one that is hardly ever mentioned: we wrote letters to each other. Mine was the very last generation to do so. Bleak and empty was the day you didn’t find a stuffed envelope, in handwriting you recognized, waiting for you on the doormat.
