Lionel Shriver

2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Lionel Shriver

The circus around Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia – whose full name the New York Times likes to trot out as if citing an old-school English aristocrat – speaks volumes about the immigration battle roiling the US. Our friend Kilmar is what we fuddy-duddies insist on calling an illegal immigrant. The Salvadoran crossed clandestinely into the US in 2012. As for what he’s done since, that depends on whom you ask.

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Lionel Shriver

The circus around Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia – whose full name the New York Times likes to trot out as if citing an old-school English aristocrat – speaks volumes about the immigration battle roiling the US. Our friend Kilmar is what we fuddy-duddies insist on calling an illegal immigrant. The Salvadoran crossed clandestinely into the US in 2012.

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Lionel Shriver

I’ve struggled to ascertain from afar the true nature of Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland. Progressive media love to quote its supporters’ politically off-key comments, but no party can answer for a membership’s every daft remark; even the odd dodgy politician comes with the territory. Yet the country’s two mainstream but increasingly unpopular parties portray the AfD as stuffed with swastika-waving Nazis building scale models of Treblinka in their basements.

3 weeks ago | spiked-online.com | Lionel Shriver

Five years on, you would be hard-pressed to name a single benefit of the so-called racial reckoning. Share Topics Identity Politics UK USA Want to read spiked ad-free? Become a spiked supporter. I ordinarily ignore the historical anniversary, so often a peg for lazy journalistic filler. But the events of five years ago have been so consequential that a spot of reflection is in order.

3 weeks ago | thefp.com | Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver: I Lost Control of My BodyWhat happens when a freakish bout of medical misfortune stops a writer from writing? This past summer, I had major back surgery, experienced runaway post-operative pain, and arose nine days after returning home with pins and needles in my hands and feet. Four days later, I could no longer stand, and I was readmitted to hospital.