Sean Thomas

Göbekli Tepe, Karakoçan

Contributor at The Spectator

Thriller writer, travel writer, vacillator Now doing a lot of my writing on that place Twitter doesn’t like

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When it comes to cheese, I’m Eurocentric

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

There are many reasons to like Kyrgyzstan. It has extraordinarily lovely women: some mad collision of Persian, Turkish, Russian, Mongol and Chinese genes makes for supermodels at every bus stop. It is safe, friendly, cheap. Its cities are commonly free of rubbish and graffiti (how does Central Asia do this, yet we cannot?). Despite these charms, it has few tourists. However, I can’t say anything positive about the cheese – because the cheese is dreck.
My battle to avoid boredom

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

Four days ago I was so bored that I considered starting a terrorist groupuscule. I had no demands, no ideology, no manifesto. I just wanted directionless chaos. I even got as far as ChatGPTing ‘How to start a violent movement’ before realising all movements require meetings. And meetings are dull. You may think I’m exaggerating. But the truth is, I have a lifelong fear of boredom.
My battle to avoid boredom

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Sean Thomas

Four days ago I was so bored that I considered starting a terrorist groupuscule. I had no demands, no ideology, no manifesto. I just wanted directionless chaos. I even got as far as ChatGPTing ‘How to start a violent movement’ before realising all movements require meetings. And meetings are dull.
Are we too stupid for democracy?

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

In 1906, Sir Francis Galton observed a crowd at a country fair in Plymouth attempting to guess the weight of an ox. Nearly 800 people participated – from butchers and farmers to busy fishwives. Galton, ever the measurer of men and beasts, gathered the guesses and calculated their average. The result was startling: the crowd’s collective estimate came within one pound of the actual weight.
Flawed women are hot

4 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

Text size Small Medium Large Line Spacing Compact Normal Spacious Comments Think how many times you’ve seen the ‘Mona Lisa’. You’ve seen her in movies, in books, in cartoons; you’ve seen her as icon of female beauty, as an emblem of feminine mystique, as a commentary on the male gaze, or an amusing face on which to paint a moustache. But in all that time I bet 94 per cent of you have never noticed: she hasn’t got any eyebrows. It is, however, true – go look again. La Gioconda is eyebrowless....
What’s wrong with eating horse?

1 month ago | spectator.com.au | Sean Thomas

There’s not much to do in Almaty, Kazakhstan. You can take a peek at the pretty wooden Orthodox cathedral, which is possibly the world’s third tallest wooden building, and erected without nails around 1904. You could visit the site of Leon Trotsky’s house, where he lived in internal Soviet exile from 1928 to 1929.
What’s wrong with eating horse?

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

There’s not much to do in Almaty, Kazakhstan. You can take a peek at the pretty wooden Orthodox cathedral, which is possibly the world’s third tallest wooden building, and erected without nails around 1904. You could visit the site of Leon Trotsky’s house, where he lived in internal Soviet exile from 1928 to 1929. However the house itself has vanished, replaced by the Luckee Yu Chinese restaurant, a chic European ‘cheeseria’, and the Caspian University branch of Starbucks.
The Canadian region home to vineyards, a desert - and Netflix’s answer to The Traitors

1 month ago | ca.style.yahoo.com | Sean Thomas

Much of Okanagan Lake is lined by vineyards - gettyIf you’re one of the many fans of the hot new Netflix series Million Dollar Secret (think The Traitors with a pot of gold at the beginning) you may, like me, have done a double take on first viewing. The main location looks a bit like a castle in beautiful highland Scotland – just like The Traitors – yet it isn’t? So where is it? What is it? I can tell you, because six months ago I was there.
Australians are destroying our ancient past

1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

I’ve been to a few underwhelming Unesco World Heritage Sites. Take the Struve Geodetic Arc, which curves almost invisibly across Eastern Europe. I visited without even realising. As for the Fray Bentos corned beef factory, in Uruguay, I’m writing this about 20 minutes from the Fray Bentos corned beef factory and I’m still reluctant to go and see. The same might be thought of Australia’s Lakes of Willandra, which I visited around 2014.
Good riddance to literary fiction

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Sean Thomas

In case you hadn’t noticed, the London Book Fair has been gracing our nation’s capital this week, down in Earl’s Court. There, the publishers, agents and buyers of the literary globe (London is second only to Frankfurt in ‘book fair importance’) have been feverishly buying and selling the rights to hot new titles, hot new authors, maybe the odd lucky midlister, while identifying the trends, writers and genres that conceal the ultra-precious kernel of hotness to come.

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9 May 25

Another extraordinary poll

Hugo Gye @HugoGye

🚨 REFORM TAKES 10-POINT LEAD IN NEW POLL 🚨 @BMGResearch survey for @theipaper shows: Reform 32% Labour 22% Tories 19% Lib Dems 13% Greens 9% BMG's Rob Struthers says: "Some polls make you do a double-take. This is one of them."

sean thomas knox @thomasknox

9 May 25

RT @HugoGye: 🚨 REFORM TAKES 10-POINT LEAD IN NEW POLL 🚨 @BMGResearch survey for @theipaper shows: Reform 32% Labour 22% Tories 19% Lib De…

sean thomas knox @thomasknox

8 May 25

The UK electorate is greeting the Indian Trade Deal with maximum enthusiasm