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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Teresa Mull |Freddy Gray |Paul Wood |Orson Fry
The Executive Order establishing President Trump’s Make America Healthy Again Commission presented some big, fat, sobering truths. “Six in ten Americans have at least one chronic disease,” the order says, “and four in ten have two or more chronic diseases.” It also notes that our people don’t live, on average, as long as those in other developed nations: 78.8 years in the US compared to 82.6 years in our cousin countries. How did this happen?
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Doug Bandow |Irwin M. Stelzer |Meghan Murphy |Orson Fry
Panic, even hysteria, has swept Europe. Its leaders realize that in their case Trump should be taken literally as well as seriously, and he seems prepared to trade the transatlantic alliance for détente with Russia. Eight decades of good times for the continent might be coming to a dramatic end. Trump demonstrated contempt for Europe during his first term; however, his top aides moderated his antagonism, carrying on policy as normal. While out of office he evidently decided never again.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Meghan Murphy |Orson Fry |Yascha Mounk |Terry Barnes
You couldn’t have written a better comedy script than the one playing out in the apparently real war that has erupted between America and its usually irrelevant northern cousin. The hockey rink is particularly sacred ground for Canadians, which makes the ego hit doled out by President Donald Trump this week all the more painful.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Orson Fry |Sergey Radchenko |Freddy Gray |Roger Kimball
It’s been almost 100 years since Arcady Fixon, a refugee from the Russian Revolution, opened the doors of Caviar Kaspia on Place de la Madeleine in Paris, and began beguiling his fellow exiles and the crème of Paris society with the exotic flavors of his homeland: shiny black caviar, served with blinis or potatoes, and ice-cold vodka.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Clark |Orson Fry |Ian Williams |Svitlana Morenets
The decision by Donald Trump to hold peace talks with Russia on ending the Ukraine war — without Ukraine actually being present — is starting to look even more disgraceful. It transpires that the war was not the only item on the agenda in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. A significant part of the day’s business seems to have been discussing oil deals in the Arctic.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Orson Fry |Ian Williams |Svitlana Morenets |Iain Macwhirter
Negotiating peace can be delicate business. Often it requires a steady hand, a strong sense of compassion and inexhaustible patience. As Senator George J.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Orson Fry |Amy Everett |Jawad Iqbal |Andrew Watts
Biohacking, one of the more bearable buzz words of recent times, refers to the practice of using science, technology and self-experimentation to improve the body’s function and performance. When I was recently invited to experience the Alpina Gstaad’s new three-day wellness program — designed to “biohack your ski trip for improved performance and mood” — I didn’t hesitate.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Kara Kennedy |Orson Fry |Juan P. Villasmil |Lionel Shriver
In her favorite room of the White House, the Yellow Oval room, stands Melania, in a black Dolce & Gabbana pantsuit. She’s less Barbara Bush, more the first female James Bond. Mrs Trump’s second official portrait appears to be a deliberate homage to the promo photograph for Diamonds Are Forever, which depicted Sean Connery standing firm with an American flag rippling behind him.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Orson Fry |Lionel Shriver |Justin Brierley |Grace Curley
What do the musicians Paul Weller and Daryl Hall, the gallerist Iwan Worth, and the actor Gary Oldman have in common? A taste in tailors. I meet Tom Arena, who’s just setup a regular pop-up atelier, in his suite-cum-studio on the Chelsea Hotel’s fourth floor. He has just finished a morning of fittings with “Young British Artist” Liam Gillick and the makeup queen Bobbi Brown.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Rich Cromwell |Orson Fry |Travis Elborough |Timothy Clark Jacobson
We were somewhere around the Palazzo when the drugs began to take hold. Unlike Hunter S. Thompson, though, we were surrounded not by imaginary bats but an amiable crowd of agèd hippies. Our destination was the Las Vegas Sphere, to hear Dead & Company. The venue itself eschews the definite article, but it’s futile. No one says they’re going to Sphere. It’s too much of a destination. It needs the definite article.
