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Feb 6, 2024 | thespectator.com | Amber Athey |Gavin Mortimer |Royals Charles |Nigel Jones

Country music star Toby Keith died Monday night at the age of sixty-two after battling stomach cancer for a year and a half. Keith’s music career spanned three decades and he racked up twenty #1s, seven Grammy nominations, nearly two dozen combined wins across the ACMs, CMAs and AMAs — and was given the Country Icon Award at the 2023 People’s Choice Country Awards. In 2021, President Donald Trump awarded Keith the National Medal of the Arts. He’s a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Feb 6, 2024 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Royals Charles |Nigel Jones |Alexander Larman

February has not started well for the European Union. On the first day of the month, furious farmers surrounded the parliament in Brussels, chanting defiance and throwing eggs at the people they blame for demeaning their industry. On Saturday, a man stabbed three people at the Gare de Lyon in Paris. The suspect in custody is from Mali but had lived legally in Italy since arriving in 2016.

Feb 6, 2024 | thespectator.com | Nigel Jones |Royals Charles |Alexander Larman |Anne Margaret Daniel

The great ages achieved by King Charles’s mother, the Queen (ninety-six), and maternal grandmother, the Queen Mother (101), show that the modern British royal family generally enjoy rude good health. But their royal status and excellent medical care are no guarantee against the illnesses that beset all mortal men and women. In the contemporary era, the most common condition, now afflicting one in every two people, is cancer.

Jan 26, 2024 | thespectator.com | Andrew Hankinson |Royals Charles |Nigel Jones |Alexander Larman

Here I am, a human, recommending Kyle Chayka’s book about the negative impact of algorithms on our culture. Hopefully that will calm him down a bit, because he worries a lot, possibly far too much, at least as it seems to someone who is less online.

Jan 18, 2024 | thespectator.com | Amber Athey |Roger Kimball |Freddy Gray |Royals Charles

Harvard University has borne the brunt of the backlash for the antisemitism of its student protesters in the last few months: their president had to step down over her mismanagement of the issue and a plagiarism scandal. But Harvard is far from the only elite school in the nation in botching their approach to pro-Palestinian activists. It’s not even alone in its city.