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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Edward Howell |Alexander Larman |Joan Collins
Amid the blizzard of earth-shaking Trump news, the appointment of a new British ambassador may not seem the most pressing story coming out of the nation’s capital. Yet today, Peter Mandelson will hand over his credentials to the Chief of State Protocol in Washington, DC and his arrival as His Majesty King Charles III’s man in America is certain to keep the “special relationship” gossip mill whirring for months to come. It could prove a brilliant appointment.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Edward Howell |Alexander Larman |Joan Collins
There is a wind of change blowing through the West. It emanates from Washington DC, where Donald Trump continues to dash off executive orders; more than fifty by the end of last week, the highest number in a president’s first 100 days in four decades. The liberal mainstream media is rattled. The New York Times magazine ran a piece at the weekend in which it described Trump as ‘the leading light of a spate of illiberal leaders and parties flourishing in democracies around the world’.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Joan Collins |Lionel Shriver |Rod Liddle |James Kanagasooriam
“Traitor!” the woman yelled at me the instant I entered the beautifully decorated living room of a famous actress. It was a Twelfth Night celebration, and the room was full of glamorous friends and acquaintances. “What?” I replied, bemused. “That photo!” she screamed, “How could you take that picture with all those Republicans?”Over Christmas I had been to a dinner hosted by some good friends who happen to be Republicans. This, it turned out, was a great crime.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Miller |Christopher Harding |Alexander Larman |Joan Collins
Overlook for the moment the shenanigans surrounding French prime minister Michel Barnier’s attempt to cobble together a new government. One political crisis can conceal another. And a more existential specter is haunting Paris. Its name is Marine Le Pen. Amid the chaos, the weakened president and the hapless efforts to form a government, the leader of the Rassemblement National seems to be the only winner.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
outerbanksvoice.com | Joan Collins
By Submitted Story on September 21, 2024 By Joan L. Collins Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc. (PIPSI)The Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc., (PIPSI) is pleased to announce two October events to be held at the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum located at Collins Park, 622 Sir Walter Raleigh Street in Manteo.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Bryan Appleyard |Simon Parkin |Joan Collins |Roger Kimball
The memory of Tsutomu Yamaguchi will be with me for some time. Though wounded, he survived the Hiroshima atom bomb and returned to his home town, Nagasaki. Three days later, he survived another nuclear attack. He died in 2010, aged ninety-three. The Invention of Good and Evil is a fat, complex, good-natured and intriguing book is full of such memorable material. Hanno Sauer is a German philosopher with an all-encompassing mind and a capacity to entertain.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Elisenne Stoller |Joan Collins |Roger Kimball |Deborah Ross
When hearing “Taiwan,” people who have some awareness of the world will think of its focal role in US-China relations or computer chips. And if they don’t have much awareness they’ll confuse it with Thailand — yes, this has happened to me multiple times. But most simply do not know much about the island that was once known as “Ilha Formosa” —beautiful island — by Portuguese settlers in the sixteenth century. The colonizers knew what they were talking about.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Roger Kimball |Joan Collins |Ross Anderson |Calla Jones Corner
Regular readers will recall my fondness for Lord Falkland’s observation that “when it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.” That crisp declaration is not only elegantly framed but (in my view) true.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Philip Womack |Joan Collins |Roger Kimball |Will Self
Will Self’s recent, exceptional fictional trilogy, comprising Umbrella, Shark and Phone, displays a deep preoccupation with the ways that time, memory, family, psychosis and history interact. The novels are complex, multigenerational narratives, composed in a late modernist style as engaging as it is experimental. Formal playfulness, with the prose switching between its characters’ consciousnesses, sometimes even midsentence, is married to solidly satisfying plots.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
thecoastlandtimes.com | Joan Collins
Published 12:03 pm Wednesday, June 19, 2024 By Joan L. Collins, Director, Outreach and Education, Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc. We are excited to hold our annual Juneteenth outdoor celebration on the grounds of the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum, a celebration that is quickly becoming an Outer Banks favorite! Please join us at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 19 at the Cookhouse Museum to hear the Sounds of Freedom as sung by our beloved Roanoke Island native Tshombe Selby.
