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Aug 13, 2024 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Fraser Nelson |Royals Harry |Jawad Iqbal

Emmanuel Macron believes that the Paris Olympics have shown the world the “true face of France.” The Games were indeed a success, recovering from the disastrous first day, when saboteurs disabled the rail network and torrential rain turned the opening ceremony into a very damp squib. Macron must have feared the worst but the weather improved and crowds flocked to the iconic Parisian venues to watch two weeks of glorious sport.

Aug 13, 2024 | thespectator.com | Fraser Nelson |Gavin Mortimer |Royals Harry |Andrew Tettenborn

Even by its own standards, Twitter has been an asylum of late with a lynch mob going after our associate editor Douglas Murray. An interview he gave months ago has been selectively edited and republished to misrepresent him and, in effect, make out that he was encouraging riots. This is how Twitter works. People respond, others respond to the response and an inverted pyramid of piffle is built.

May 6, 2024 | thespectator.com | Limor Simhony Philpott |Philip Patrick |Alexander Larman |Royals Harry

A day after it seemed that a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel was all but dead, the terror group has issued a surprise statement announcing that it has accepted the deal offered by Egypt and Qatar. Optimism, though, would be premature at this point. The deal accepted by Hamas is reportedly somewhat different to the one they had been considering in the last few days.

May 6, 2024 | thespectator.com | Philip Patrick |Alexander Larman |Royals Harry |Jane Robins

Tokyo, Japan“Shhh! Now on face to respectable great eels life.” How’s that for the first line of an article? I spotted this gem written on a sign in the window of a seafood restaurant in the Hibiya Midtown shopping center in Tokyo recently. I was delighted. I’ve spent twenty-five years in Japan and have always enjoyed a good bit of mangled Japanese English. I had been dismayed of late by an apparent improvement in the quality of English on signs and noticeboards around Tokyo.

Dec 15, 2023 | thespectator.com | Peter Wood |Kendall Jenner |Mark Galeotti |Royals Harry

Claudine Gay is a self-declared “transformational” president of Harvard University. She campaigned for the job by promising to retire the old Harvard of privilege and patrimony and to bring into being a new Harvard founded on principles of anti-racism and social justice. How is she doing? At the moment, she is a bit distracted by allegations of plagiarism in her slim portfolio of publications. But she has a whole sea of troubles to take arms against.