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Sep 26, 2024 | thespectator.com | popularBy Gavin Mortimer |Gavin Mortimer |Caleb Quinley |David Loyn

Talk about making history: New York City mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a federal grand jury, the first sitting NYC mayor to face a federal charge while in post. Adams, who has served as mayor for three years, has been the subject of a federal investigation into whether his campaign was on the receiving end of illegal foreign donations from the Turkish government.

Sep 26, 2024 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Jonathan Miller |Joan Collins |popularBy Gavin Mortimer

There was a vigorous interview on Tuesday morning on a prominent French radio station. The guest was Jean-Philippe Tanguy, a senior MP in Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National, and the last question put to him concerned his leader’s impending trial on charges of financial impropriety. Tanguy had on two occasions to remind the presenter to stick to the conditional tense when talking about the charges; his interlocutor made it sound as if Le Pen was guilty until proven innocent.

Aug 7, 2023 | thespectator.com | Katherine Dee |popularBy Gavin Mortimer |Gavin Mortimer |Nicholas Farrell

Have you made your “date-me doc” yet? “Date-me docs” are, per an article in the New York Times last week, “long, résumé-like dating bios” — think of them as the antidote to terse, image-reliant dating apps. They’re thus far confined to the digital outposts of startup, Rationalist and Post-Rationalist communities; at this point it would be more accurate to describe them as a specific cultural phenomenon than a reaction to dating apps.