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Dec 9, 2024 | thespectator.com | James Ball |Rory Sutherland |Royals Meghan |Julie Burchill

Like all other forms of culture, video games offer a way to escape from, or reflect on, reality through fiction. Unlike almost any other form of culture, they are interactive — you, the player, control the experience. Nowhere is this more true than with immersive role-playing games (RPGs), in which the player embodies a character forced to make moral (or wildly immoral) choices in a fictionalized world, which change the narrative of the game for good or ill.

Dec 9, 2024 | thespectator.com | Rory Sutherland |Royals Meghan |Julie Burchill |Daniel DePetris

I had a friend whose approach to entrepreneurialism was to take two separate things that seemed stupidly popular and somehow find a way to combine them. He thought karaoke was ridiculous; his friend thought twenty-four-hour rolling news channels were daft. The two of them created a twenty-four-hour karaoke channel in Asia — and sold it at a sizable profit.

Dec 9, 2024 | thespectator.com | Julie Burchill |Royals Meghan |Daniel DePetris |Owen Matthews

Looking back on the Queen’s 1992 “annus horribilis,” the events involved — though surprising at the time — seem almost staid now. The wife of her favorite son was photographed canoodling with an American. Her daughter divorced. Her daughter-in-law was the co-creator of a frank book about the sorrows of her marriage to the Queen’s eldest son, and to top it off, Windsor Castle burnt down.

Dec 9, 2024 | thespectator.com | Julie Burchill |James Ball |Rory Sutherland |Royals Meghan

Looking back on the Queen’s 1992 “annus horribilis,” the events involved — though surprising at the time — seem almost staid now. The wife of her favorite son was photographed canoodling with an American. Her daughter divorced. Her daughter-in-law was the co-creator of a frank book about the sorrows of her marriage to the Queen’s eldest son, and to top it off, Windsor Castle burnt down.

Dec 12, 2023 | thespectator.com | Andrew Roberts |Sam Meadows |Jawad Iqbal |Royals Meghan

At 6:30 pm on Thursday December 16, 1773, a group of between 100 and 150 Americans raided three East India Company merchantmen moored in Boston and threw 92,000lb of tea (worth $1.7 million in today’s terms) into the harbor.