Max Jeffery

London

Journalist at The Spectator

Online commissioning editor @Spectator [email protected]

Featured in: Favicon

spectator.co.uk

Articles

DC mayor booed by Nats and Phillies fans

3 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech |Jacob Heilbrunn

Cockburn wishes farewell to karaoke mainstay and watches baseball fans fightDC is evolving. Cockburn honored the memory of Hill Country Barbecue Karaoke on Wednesday night, ahead of the downtown hotspot closing its doors for good today. No tickets were available at the door and the line snaked throughout the restaurant as Hill staffers, hacks and college students pored in for one last singalong. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
Which member of the ‘Houthi PC small group’ chat are you?

4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Derek VanBuskirk |Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech

Most people use groupchats to share memes, organize brunch or gossip. The Trump administration plans air strikes. After Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently included in the “Houthi PC small group” Signal chat by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, administration officials were eager to stress that no classified information was included in the unofficial chat. As a result, Goldberg published screenshots of the full conversation this morning.
Team Trump walked into Jeffrey Goldberg’s trap

4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Derek VanBuskirk |Damien Phillips |Max Jeffery

Jeffrey Goldberg laid a trap and Team Trump has blundered right into it. In Monday’s sensational story, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans,” the Atlantic editor rather pompously declared that he was withholding some of the information he had received on grounds of national security, contrasting his own propriety with the slapdashery of the Trump administration’s national security operation.
WATCH: Mike Waltz takes ‘full responsibility’ (kind of) for groupchat leak

4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech |Freddy Gray |Jacob Heilbrunn

It has been a furious week in Trumpland after White House officials accidentally added journalist Jeffrey Goldberg to a highly sensitive group chat on Signal about planned air strikes in Yemen.
Mike Waltz claims he has ‘never met’ Atlantic editor

4 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Derek VanBuskirk |Max Jeffery |Damian Thompson |Ben Domenech

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz spoke to the press this afternoon for the first time since the Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg described how Waltz had inadvertently added him to a Signal groupchat in which air strikes on Yemen were planned. Walz claimed that he’d “never met, don’t know, never communicated with” Goldberg. The only problem: Goldberg says in his report that the pair has met before. So who’s lying?
You can buy Melania Trump’s wedding dress on eBay for $45,000

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Max Jeffery |John Lough |Kate Andrews |Piers Morgan

Melania Trump’s one-of-a-kind wedding dress is on sale for an asking price of $45,000 on eBay. The ivory duchesse satin dress was worn at the 2005 wedding between the future president and first lady – and also featured on the cover of Vogue magazine, the sole instance of international model Melania appearing on a Vogue cover. Jill Biden, meanwhile, has two to her name. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
Signal and the narcissism of connectivity

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Max Jeffery |Ben Domenech |Freddy Gray |Jacob Heilbrunn

Signal is the fashionable place to discuss shady business – and that is probably what tempted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a military man with a previous in at the Pentagon, into using the app to discuss American air strikes against the Yemeni Houthis with top Trump administration officials. It was Waltz who added the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the “Houthis PC small group” on March 13, two days before the strikes.
Does Tim Walz think we still want to hear from him?

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Grace Curley |Toby Young |Max Jeffery |Kevin Roberts

If you thought an embarrassing loss in November would result in Tim Walz taking a hint, you thought wrong. The Democratic party is seeing its popularity continue to decline, even from that low point. A recent NBC poll showed the party’s favorability rating hitting a low not seen since 1990. Yet Walz seems hell bent on sticking around. This leads those of us who just suffered through his three month stint as a vice presidential candidate to ask: are the Dems really doing this again?
The curse of Disney’s Snow White

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Toby Young |Max Jeffery |Zoe Strimpel |Madeline Grant

One of the early decisions David Zaslav made after becoming the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery in 2022 was to cancel the release of Batgirl, a summer blockbuster the studio had spent $90 million making. According to industry insiders, Zaslav thought the politically correct reimagining of the comic book character, whose best friend in the film is played by a trans actor, would be box office poison.
The federal-state collisions looming over New York

1 month ago | thespectator.com | John MacArthur |Max Jeffery |Martin Vander Weyer |Teresa Mull

For New York liberals of a certain age, the term “states’ rights” has long been synonymous with segregation in the South. It’s personified by Alabama governor George Wallace’s “stand in the schoolhouse door,” in June 1963, to prevent desegregation of the state university.