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Apr 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | Dan Hitchens |Nigel Jones |Jonathan Spyer |LifeThe tradition

It’s always too good to be true for the moral majority. After dedicating his life to Christ with the release of his gospel album in 2019, Kanye West is seemingly putting his conversion to Christianity on hold while he starts his own porn studio. West confirmed his latest venture on Wednesday with a video on X, although his account his since been deactivated. “Yeezy porn is cumming,” the video read with a voiceover telling viewers to visit Yeezy.com.

Apr 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | Dan Hitchens |Nigel Jones |Jonathan Spyer |LifeThe tradition

It sounds straightforward enough: a tennis romance starring Zendaya, idol of the mid-teen demographic and last seen riding a sandworm in Dune: Part Two. She plays Tashi Duncan, a junior player tipped for greatness, who finds herself in a love triangle with two other juniors: spoilt-but-roguish Patrick (Josh O’Connor) and nice-but-needy Art (Mike Faist).

Apr 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | Nigel Jones |Jonathan Spyer |LifeThe tradition |Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Fifty years ago today, on April 25, 1974, Europe was stunned by an almost bloodless military coup that removed the continent’s most durable dictatorship: Portugal’s authoritarian “New State” that had held the country in an iron grip since 1926. Military coups have an evil reputation in Europe. We associate them with ham-fisted juntas, arbitrary arrests, torture, and reactionary politics: the sort of regimes that ruled Chile and Argentina in the 1970s, and left those countries drenched in blood.

Apr 24, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |LifeThe tradition |Thomas W. Hodgkinson |Francis Pike

President Joe Biden signed the foreign aid package, which features $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, on Wednesday after the bill swiftly moved through Congress. The breakdown of aid is as follows: $61 billion for Ukraine, $26 billion for Israel and $8 billion for Taiwan.

Apr 24, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jonathan Spyer |LifeThe tradition |Thomas W. Hodgkinson |Francis Pike

On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched its deepest attack into Israel since the current round of hostilities between Jerusalem and the Iran-supported Islamist group began lat October. Sirens sounded in the town of Acre as drones and rockets were launched at what pro-Hezbollah media described as “military targets” between Acre and Nahariya. There were no casualties. In response, Israeli aircraft struck at Hezbollah targets across the border.