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1 week ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Jonathan Miller
More Indians? Bring them on. The more the better. The prospect of a forthcoming tidal wave of immigration following Labour striking a trade deal with India is the best news in years. The last tidal wave of Indians arrived from Uganda and they were a shot in the arm of moribund Britain – where because of half-day closing, you couldn’t even buy a pint of milk on a Wednesday afternoon.
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1 week ago | 
causeur.fr | Jonathan Miller
Vous avez faim, une petite envie, ou alors vous êtes carrément famélique ? Rejoignez-moi au Josie’s Diner à Lexington, Kentucky, au cœur du pays du Bluegrass, où les chevaux sont sveltes et, soyons francs, beaucoup de gens ne le sont pas. À 8 heures du matin, le Josie’s est bondé, les clients bien en chair affluent pour le repas matinal. Une étudiante mince, heureusement, de l’Université du Kentucky, est ma serveuse.
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1 week ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Miller
I was born in Saskatchewan and have no intention of returning. It’s the Siberia of Canada, an area bigger than France – where I now live – with the population of Buffalo, New York. It’s sucked dry by Ottawa. Elon Musk was here, and left. And it has winter temperatures of -40 degrees. Alberta has slightly more going for it: skiing, bears. But Albertans aren’t gruntled, either. The last time I was in Calgary I had lunch at the elite Ranchmen’s Club and the chatter was seditious.
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1 week ago | 
spectator.com.au | Jonathan Miller
It is time to take seriously the possibility that the next president of France will be Jordan Bardella. His star power was persuasively demonstrated at Thursday’s May Day rally of the Rassemblement National (RN) in Narbonne, the heartland of the French right. It was part political rally, part disco. The demographic was startling.
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1 week ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Jonathan Miller
It is time to take seriously the possibility that the next president of France will be Jordan Bardella. His star power was persuasively demonstrated at Thursday’s May Day rally of the Rassemblement National (RN) in Narbonne, the heartland of the French right. It was part political rally, part disco. The demographic was startling.
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2 weeks ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Jonathan Miller
Are you hungry, peckish, esurient? Join me at Josie’s diner in Lexington, Kentucky, in the heart of Bluegrass country, where the horses are lean and very many people are, let me be frank, not. Josie’s is heaving at 8 a.m. as the well-upholstered clientele arrive for the morning feed. A mercifully slim student at the University of Kentucky is my waitress.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Calla Jones Corner |Raheem Kassam |Gavin Mortimer |Jonathan Miller
Since moving to France, one of my greatest pleasures has been rushing to pick up my two grandchildren from the tiny schoolhouse in the village of Monthelie. I can’t wait to hear about what they had for le déjeuner. Le déjeuner scolaire, a three- to four-course lunch, subsidized by the government, is sacrosanct. The French even have a phrase for socializing and eating together: la commensalité.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Jonathan Miller
President Trump swerved in his “Liberation Day” event last week, speaking on an issue that has preoccupied America for months: the price of eggs. Trump said: “The first week I was blamed for eggs, I said, ‘I just got here.’ The price on eggs now is down 55 percent and will keep going down. They were saying that for Easter, ‘Please don’t use eggs. Could you use plastic eggs?’ I say, we don’t want to do that.”Like him or not, Trump has a way of understanding the zeitgeist.
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1 month ago | 
spectator.co.uk | Jonathan Miller
President Trump swerved in his ‘Liberation Day’ event last week, speaking on an issue that has preoccupied America for months: the price of eggs. Trump said: ‘The first week I was blamed for eggs, I said, “I just got here”. The price on eggs now is down 55 per cent and will keep going down. They were saying that for Easter, “Please don’t use eggs. Could you use plastic eggs?” I say, we don’t want to do that.’Like him or not, Trump has a way of understanding the zeitgeist.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Clark |Dave Seminara |Alex Castellanos |Jonathan Miller
What did Donald Trump tell us outside the White House? According to the President, tariffs will lead to a boom in the economy, bringing in almost $8 trillion of investment as overseas firms rush to establish factories in the US to feed the market without incurring tariffs. On that, he is likely to be disappointed.
