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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Alexander Larman |Damian Thompson |Joanna Pocock
It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after JustStopOil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” a trio of JSO protesters have again targeted the artist’s work at the National Gallery in London.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Joanna Pocock
There is a moment in my life that marks a split between a ‘before’ and an ‘after’. I was around 12 years old, sitting cross-legged on the cream carpet in my family’s living room in Ottawa when I opened a large, heavy book, awkward in my skinny arms. The texture of the paper was strange: it was matt, a word I didn’t know then. The ink was blacker than anything I had seen. A pure void – no light, no reflection, nothing.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | James Innes-Smith |Bryan Appleyard |Joanna Pocock |Francis Beckett
Lee Child has sold more than 200 million books. He reckons his royalties at about a dollar per book. He doesn’t write short stories to make money. He contributes to anthologies, largely pro bono. “Fabergé eggs they ain’t,” he says, in the introduction to Safe Enough and Other Stories, but they are real gems nonetheless. With no global readership to worry about and no commercial interests involved, Child was free to have fun.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Joanna Pocock |Ben Domenech |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller |Freddy Gray
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to tax charges in a last-minute reversal of his previous not guilty plea. The younger Biden was accused of failing to pay taxes on his lucrative business — often foreign — ventures and accepted guilt on all nine charges.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Joanna Pocock |Alexander Larman |Paul F Kildea |Anne De Courcy
On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t particularly large, but the time span it covers, from prehistoric goddess figures to Laure Prouvost’s 2021 cyborg-octopus installation “MOOTHERR,” is enormous. The trajectories, practices and obsessions of the artists discussed range far and wide.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Joanna Pocock
On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t particularly large, but the time span it covers, from prehistoric goddess figures to Laure Prouvost’s 2021 cyborg-octopus installation ‘MOOTHERR’, is enormous. The trajectories, practices and obsessions of the artists discussed range far and wide.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Joanna Pocock
Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Joanna Pocock Portrait of the artist and mother Linkedin Messenger Email Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood Hettie Judah Thames & Hudson, pp. 272, £30 On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t particularly large, but the time span it covers, from prehistoric goddess figures to Laure Prouvost’s 2021 cyborg-octopus installation ‘MOOTHERR’, is enormous. The trajectories,...
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Amber Athey |Gavin Mortimer |Joanna Pocock
This week a security deal was announced that could see Chinese police on the streets of Hungary. Despite this, there was remarkably little fanfare about the agreement — just a few vague details in public statements made days after the deal was signed between the interior ministers of the two countries. Yet is represents another troubling challenge by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán to both NATO and the European Union, of which he remains an increasingly troublesome member.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Amber Athey |Gavin Mortimer |Joanna Pocock |Ben Domenech
As war rages in Gaza and Ukraine, Joe Biden is preoccupied with another bloody battle, in the White House — between his new German Shepherd, Commander, and Secret Service personnel. Cockburn first reported Commander was roaming the West Wing looking for flesh in July. Since then, under the loving care of Joe and Jill, the canine’s bloodlust has intensified.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Amber Athey |Gavin Mortimer |Joanna Pocock |Ben Domenech
When you work in the media as a practicing Catholic, there are few things more hilarious than watching fellow journalists repeatedly fail miserably to get even basic components of your faith correct.
