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Dec 18, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Phoebe Hennell |Christopher Sandford |Sean Rayment |Kevin Dahlgren
Argentina has spent most of its 200-year history in deficit; no other country currently owes the International Monetary Fund a greater sum of money.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Christopher Sandford |Sean Rayment |Kevin Dahlgren |Ian Williams
Most of us have at one time played the you-couldn’t-make-it-up game. What were the odds back in, say, 1973, that millions of us would casually engage in Jetsons-style video chats, conduct business at the swipe of a thumb, or consider the prospect of a space-tourism flight courtesy of Virgin Galactic? Or for that matter, rue the fact that the all-conquering Oakland Athletics might fall so low as to become the worst team in baseball last season, with a dismal 50-112 record?
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Sean Rayment |Kevin Dahlgren |Ian Williams |Aidan Hartley
When the last shot is fired in the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the fog of war eventually lifts, the challenge of who will rebuild Gaza will need to be addressed. While such a thought may be difficult for some Israelis to stomach, especially those who lost loved ones in the October 7 Hamas atrocity, the “what happens next?” question demands both an answer and a plan. In his masterful work World Order, the late US statesman and diplomat Henry Kissinger noted that when President Harry S.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Lionel Shriver |Kevin Dahlgren |Ian Williams |Aidan Hartley
I’m fascinated by the subject of immigration because I’m a sucker for moral complexity. For decades, too, I’ve been an immigrant myself, though I’ve played by the rules (at some cost), and I’ve never been a burden on the state (to the contrary). Besides, I am by nature territorial.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Fiona Sampson |Kevin Dahlgren |Ian Williams |Aidan Hartley
In the 1960s and 1970s, British music was transfixed by the Manchester School. Led by the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Alexander Goehr and Peter Maxwell Davies, this northern powerhouse of art music also included the brilliant pianist John Ogden and the conductor Elgar Howarth. All five had studied in the city in the early 1950s.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Kevin Dahlgren |Ian Williams |Aidan Hartley |Charles Moore
In November 2020, Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalizing non-commercial drug possession. The state also significantly increased funding for recovery and harm reduction programs. It sounded like a great plan to voters, so it passed with 60 percent approval. The deadliest, most addictive drug in history was introduced to a vulnerable population just as the state decriminalized drugsWhat has occurred though over the last three years is nothing short of tragic.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
spectator.com.au | Kevin Dahlgren
In November 2020, Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalising non-commercial drug possession. The state also significantly increased funding for recovery and harm reduction programmes. It sounded like a great plan to voters, so it passed with 60 per cent approval. The deadliest, most addictive drug in history was introduced to a vulnerable population just as the state decriminalised drugsWhat has occurred though over the last three years is nothing short of tragic.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
spectator.co.uk | Kevin Dahlgren
Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments In November 2020, Oregon passed Measure 110, decriminalising non-commercial drug possession. The state also significantly increased funding for recovery and harm reduction programmes. It sounded like a great plan to voters, so it passed with 60 per cent approval. What has occurred though over the last three years is nothing short of tragic. When Measure 110 passed, fentanyl was starting to take over our streets. For...
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
truthonthestreets.substack.com | Kevin Dahlgren
I have worked in homelessness services over two decades and it has never been easy. Verbal assaults are commonplace and even physical assaults have been known to happen. So is property damage, threats, accusations, backstabbing and getting doxxed. Reading this would make most people considering entering this field to change their minds. The homeless population are indeed a complex group of people and no two days are the same.
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Aug 31, 2023 | 
thespectator.com | Kevin Dahlgren |Boris Johnson |Claire Lowdon |William Cash
I stood across the street from Seattle’s City Hall, next to a long line of tents. There were more than fifteen of them, no more than a few feet apart. In between the tents, furniture and trash was piled high. The encampment took up the entire sidewalk, forcing pedestrians to walk in the street and triggering nonstop honking from passing cars. In a parking lot on the corner, people from a local mutual aid group stood at a booth, handing out food and water.
