Sebastian Shakespeare

Sep 25, 2024 | thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Freddy Gray |Sebastian Shakespeare |Austin Williams

It was presented as a bold stimulus to boost China’s ailing economy — but while it excited stock markets in Asia, Western economists were underwhelmed. At a rare press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, the usually gnomic governor of the People’s Bank of China, Pan Gongsheng, unveiled a range of measures designed to “support the stable growth of China’s economy” and see that it hits this year’s target of 5 percent growth.

Sep 24, 2024 | thespectator.com | Freddy Gray |Sebastian Shakespeare |philanthropyBy Jude Cook |Jude Cook

“Some things are more important than staying in power,” Joe Biden just told the United Nations, and the General Assembly broke into sustained applause. Biden left the stage clasping his hand to his chest, so touched that he had so touched the crowd. “It’s your people that matter the most,” said Biden. “Never forget we are here to serve the people. Not the other way around.” It says quite a lot about the state of modern political leadership that such remarks are construed as moving insight.

Sep 24, 2024 | thespectator.com | Sebastian Shakespeare |Lee Langley |disgracefullyBy Cosmo Landesman |Cosmo Landesman

Brighton, EnglandRecently I lost my mother, my job and nearly my wife in quick succession (she was diagnosed with breast cancer). My son now needles me by asking what I do all day. “Son, I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have dark thoughts.” That is what I want to say, but I don’t have the courage. It is hard to explain to an eleven-year-old that the black dog can be as demanding as any full-time employer. Besides he wouldn’t get the Blade Runner reference.

Sep 18, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Sebastian Shakespeare

Recently I lost my mother, my job and nearly my wife in quick succession (she was diagnosed with breast cancer). My son now needles me by asking what I do all day. ‘Son, I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have dark thoughts.’ That is what I want to say, but I don’t have the courage.

Sep 18, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Sebastian Shakespeare

Recently I lost my mother, my job and nearly my wife in quick succession (she was diagnosed with breast cancer). My son now needles me by asking what I do all day. ‘Son, I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have dark thoughts.’ That is what I want to say, but I don’t have the courage. It is hard to explain to an 11-year-old that the black dog can be as demanding as any full-time employer. Besides he wouldn’t get the Blade Runner reference.