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Oct 31, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Edward Howell |Freddy Gray |Michael Evans |Jonathan Campbell-James
When Kim Jong Un does not get what he wants, he makes his displeasure known far and wide. Over the past few weeks, one would have thought that Kim would be reasonably content. In return for sending artillery shells, ballistic missiles, and most recently, troops to Russia, North Korea has been receiving food, cash, and most likely, technological assistance, the latter which is what Kim craves the most.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Fin DePencier |Fin dePencier |James Sunderland |Brendan O’Neill |Jonathan Campbell-James
West BankIt’s hard to take someone seriously when they tell you: be extremely careful there, the West Bank is just like Gaza now. Hyperbole, surely, but duly noted. It was late August and I was heading to the Tulkarem and Nur Shams refugee camps, two adjacent Palestinian communities in the northern occupied West Bank which are now the site of almost daily fighting between the Israeli military and Palestinian armed groups. The nearby city of Jenin has seen even worse violence.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Thomas Fink |Jonathan Campbell-James |Gavin Mortimer |Matthew Parris
Something extraordinary has happened. It wasn’t just the docking of a SpaceX capsule at the International Space Station, some 250 miles above the Earth, on a mission to rescue stranded astronauts. It was the sight of Americans and Russians embracing. As the new arrivals — Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov — appeared through the hatch, it was hugs all round. There are now four Russians and seven Americans manning the ISS.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Campbell-James |Gavin Mortimer |Jonathan Miller |Jonathan Spyer
Following the mass ballistic missile attack on Israel at the beginning of the month, speculation is rife once again that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz should it be subject to the reprisal attack promised by Israel. The thinking is that this is particularly likely if Israel were to attack Iranian oil facilities. Iran certainly has the capability to close the Strait, at least in the short term.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Jonathan Campbell-James
Following the mass ballistic missile attack on Israel at the beginning of the month, speculation is rife once again that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz should it be subject to the reprisal attack promised by Israel. The thinking is that this is particularly likely if Israel were to attack Iranian oil facilities.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
spectator.co.uk | Jonathan Campbell-James
Following the mass ballistic missile attack on Israel at the beginning of the month, speculation is rife once again that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz should it be subject to the reprisal attack promised by Israel. The thinking is that this is particularly likely if Israel were to attack Iranian oil facilities. Iran certainly has the capability to close the Strait, at least in the short term.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |James Ball |Amber Duke |Jonathan Campbell-James
Israel’s overt ground intervention into Lebanon is now entering its third week. So far, the Israeli Defense Forces have advanced just a few miles in and established control in a number of locations across the border. The IDF itself has described its ground action on the border as consisting of “limited, localized and targeted raids.” Standing at a border observation post a few days ago, my impression was that this description appears accurate, at least for now.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ellie Green |Jonathan Campbell-James |Charles Lipson |Ben Domenech
Former president Barack Obama made his pitch on Thursday to black men on why they should vote for Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing them of having hang-ups about voting for a woman. Obama stopped off at a Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh ahead of a rally in the city and said he wanted to “speak some truths” to black men as recent polls show former Donald Trump doing comparatively well with the group.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Ellie Green |Jonathan Campbell-James |Damian Reilly |Lionel Shriver
On Monday afternoon as I sat in class at NYU studying the antisemitic policies of the Third Reich, the “Flood NYC for Palestine” protests descended upon Washington Square Park. This October 7, a year after the worst Jewish massacre since the Holocaust, hundreds of people had interrupted their afternoons to join a march in support of what’s euphemistically referred to as Palestinian “resistance by any means necessary.” To say “terrorism” would be unsubtle, you see.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Campbell-James |Ellie Green |Damian Reilly |Michael Evans
When Iran attacked Israel last week with a barrage of missiles, one thing was certain: Israel would hit back hard. Ten days on, that response has still not come. Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, has warned that the retaliatory strike on Iran will have an element of surprise. Israel’s attack, he said, “will be deadly, precise and above all surprising.
