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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Flawed women are hot

1 week 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 week 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 week 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

2 weeks 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

1 month 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.
Confessions of a luxury travel writer

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

It was when the peasant didn’t move for the second hour that I became suspicious. I was in an ultra-expensive hotel in southern Thailand. It was built to resemble a sequence of exquisite villas from some ancient Thai dynasty, arranged around tropical gardens and meadows. I was staying in my very own, beautiful, teak-and-mahogany mini-palace, which came with a grand piano and butler – all the usual things I’d come to expect as a luxury travel correspondent. Yawn.
The Last Untouchable in Europe

2 months ago | thomassean.substack.com | Sean Thomas

An old domestic door in the Basque Country. The sunflowers are to ward off evilThe Last Untouchable in EuropeSitting in her suburban living room in Tarbes, in southern France, is Marie Pierre Manet-Beauzac. With her wistful smile, neat dark hair, and politely friendly children, she could be Madame Everywoman.
The bitter cocktail of British decline

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

You can’t get a Pegu in Rangoon any more. That may not sound like a disaster for the ages – nothing, say, compared to the ongoing chancellorship of Rachel Reeves, MP for Blankstare-upon-Derr – but it is quite telling, once you know the background. To explain, the Pegu is a cocktail. Here’s the recipe, if you fancy making one:• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice and combine all the ingredients. • Shake vigorously for 15 to 20 seconds until well chilled.
It’s not just DeepSeek, all AI is censored

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

There are multiple reasons to be fascinated by DeepSeek, the Chinese AI chatbot that debuted last week, knocking Donald Trump off the headlines and $1 trillion off the US stock market. For a start, it represents yet another remarkable leap forward in the race to artificial general intelligence – which looks likely to arrive this decade, maybe this year. Brace. A second reason to gaze with intrigue at DeepSeek is the mysterious way it arrived.

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sean thomas knox @thomasknox

10 Apr 25

Just want to modestly reiterate that I took this photo today, on the high Kazakh steppes, looking towards the Tien Shan - the Celestial Mountains. Indeed https://t.co/kXIr0CPxz5

sean thomas knox @thomasknox

10 Apr 25

Aaaand into the Tien Shan mountains….. https://t.co/5K7YKv1Ih7

sean thomas knox @thomasknox

9 Apr 25

I am genuinely amazed at the agreeableness of Almaty, Kazakhstan Good food, great bars, young people, no horrible “religion”, loads of booze, big party people, really safe, surrounded by amazing scenery, yet also respectful polite and kind Also, I am about to eat horse https://t.co/DpfOwUx5Az