Lukas Degutis

Mar 5, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jon Gabriel |Francesca Peacock |Lukas Degutis |Jacob Heilbrunn

Donald Trump is cleaning up in the Republican primaries on Super Tuesday. The 45th president has secured victories in Oklahoma, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter. Results in Massachusetts, Maine and Vermont are still pending. President Biden also bagged easy wins in North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia. Results are pending in Alabama, Maine and Texas.

Mar 5, 2024 | thespectator.com | Jon Gabriel |Francesca Peacock |Lukas Degutis |Jacob Heilbrunn

Senator Kyrsten Sinema, the bipartisan independent from Arizona, announced Tuesday she would not seek re-election. This isn’t the biggest shock, considering Americans’ current aversion to conversation and compromise. The senator kept silent for months, avoiding any questions about her political future. But over that time, her approval polls remained as low as her Election Day chances. In a social media post, Sinema lamented the current era of hyperpartisanship. “It’s all or nothing.

Mar 5, 2024 | thespectator.com | Francesca Peacock |Lukas Degutis |Jacob Heilbrunn |Juan P. Villasmil

An informal survey of friends, family, acquaintances and previous reviews suggests that the word most usually associated with Helen Oyeyemi’s fiction is “weird.” The author of eight novels has hardly shied away from unconventional storytelling, with books about everything from Brexit-through-biscuits (Gingerbread, 2019) to magical trains and a pet mongoose (Peaces, 2021).

Mar 5, 2024 | thespectator.com | Lukas Degutis |Francesca Peacock |Jacob Heilbrunn |Juan P. Villasmil

At the age of seventy-four, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian or she’d be deported. “I felt physically ill when the policy was announced,” she tells me when we meet in an office close to Riga’s city center. “I’ve lived here peacefully for twenty years.”There was no requirement for her to seek Latvian citizenship after the Cold War ended.

Feb 28, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Lukas Degutis

Text size Line Spacing Playback speed Comments Share Share Lukas Degutis Why Latvia is expelling its Russian speakers Linkedin Messenger Email 00:00 08:42 Lukas Degutis has narrated this article for you to listen to. Riga, Latvia At the age of 74, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian or she’d be deported. ‘I felt physically ill when the policy was announced,’ she tells me when we meet in an office close to Riga’s city centre. ‘I’ve lived here...