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2 months ago | thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Piers Morgan |Ben Domenech

Last year, I wrote a feature for this magazine in which, disturbed by the apparent revival in the British gangster genre, I counseled a degree of caution as to its practitioners’ apparent lack of discernment in their approach to the tropes and clichés of the tradition.

Mar 25, 2025 | 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.

Mar 25, 2025 | thespectator.com | Damian Thompson |Piers Morgan |Freddy Gray |Magdalene Taylor

Last Sunday the Vatican released the first photograph of Pope Francis since his ordeal began. He was wearing a stole around his neck, indicating that he had concelebrated mass in the chapel of the Gemelli hospital. Admittedly, all he had to do was raise his hand and whisper a few words of consecration, but it would have been impossible to take such a photo a week earlier, when Vatican-watchers were checking their phones hourly to discover whether the See of Peter had become vacant.

Mar 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Piers Morgan |Kevin Roberts |Martin Vander Weyer

Ex-Media Matters influencer Kat Abughazaleh announced a run for the US Congress today, telling Democrats, “It’s time to drop the excuses and grow a fucking spine.”Abughazaleh is fed up with the Democrats “cowering to Trump,” and says the party should be “standing up to authoritarians, not shrinking away when the fight gets tough.” So she decided to run herself. Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.

Mar 24, 2025 | thespectator.com | John Lough |Freddy Gray |Piers Morgan |Kevin Roberts

Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate a quick end to the war in Ukraine have run into trouble. As US negotiators meet with Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to explore possibilities for a comprehensive ceasefire, the Russian side is clearly going through the motions. Vladimir Putin’s call last week with Trump showed that he sees no need to stop fighting when he is winning.