Tom Goodenough

London

Online News Editor at The Spectator

Online editor at The Spectator. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

Americano Live: Donald Trump’s first 100 days

1 week ago | spectator.co.uk | Tom Goodenough

What is Donald Trump up to now? From trade wars and stock market yo-yos to shouting matches in the White House, it can be hard to keep track. The US president’s first 100 days have been predictably riotous. To make sense of it all, The Spectator‘s deputy editor Freddy Gray and Spectator columnist and bestselling author Lionel Shriver hosted a special edition of Americano Live this week in front of hundreds of Spectator readers and subscribers at Westminster’s Emmanuel Centre.
The plight of Nigeria’s Christians

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Tom Goodenough

The persecution of Nigeria’s Christians is medieval in its horror. Villages are surrounded in the dead of night by bandits who rape and kill the inhabitants. No one is spared: women and children are among those butchered. The Makurdi Diocese, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Benue state, has been hit badly by this savage violence.
The plight of Nigeria's Christians

3 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | Tom Goodenough

The persecution of Nigeria’s Christians is medieval in its horror. Villages are surrounded in the dead of night by bandits who rape and kill the inhabitants. No one is spared: women and children are among those butchered. The Makurdi Diocese, in Nigeria’s Middle Belt Benue state, has been hit badly by this savage violence. In 2024, 549 locals in this diocese alone were murdered and dozens more kidnapped. Over 3,700 people in Makurdi have been killed since 2015.
The Sazerac: an old favorite... from New Orleans

1 month ago | thespectator.com | Ross Anderson |Michael Evans |Tom Goodenough |Dave Seminara

As the Super Bowl rolled into New Orleans, with Kendrick Lamar and his flared jeans in tow, I was thinking about the many contributions that this small Louisiana city has brought to the cocktail bar. There’s the creamy green Grasshopper, the French Quarter’s whiskey-based Vieux Carré, the tropical rum punch Hurricane and, of course, the comically difficult Ramos Gin Fizz – which blooms up in a tower of egg-white froth.
Is New Addington Britain’s bleakest estate?

2 months ago | spectator.com.au | Tom Goodenough

There’s blood spattered on the pavement but locals in New Addington, an estate in Croydon, southeast London, seem curiously unbothered. ‘I’ve had no problems,’ Eli, who lives around the corner from the latest stabbing, tells me. Eli’s house is close to Rowdown Field, where last March a human head and other dismembered body parts were found.
Is New Addington Britain's bleakest estate?

2 months ago | spectator.co.uk | Tom Goodenough

There’s blood spattered on the pavement but locals in New Addington, an estate in Croydon, southeast London, seem curiously unbothered. ‘I’ve had no problems,’ Eli, who lives around the corner from the latest stabbing, tells me. Eli’s house is close to Rowdown Field, where last March a human head and other dismembered body parts were found. Sarah Mayhew, a 38-year-old mother of two, was murdered and her remains dumped here.
Why ISIS remains a threat

Jan 14, 2025 | thespectator.com | Michael Evans |Riva-Melissa Tez |Tom Goodenough |Katja Hoyer

The ISIS caliphate in Syria and Iraq was defeated at a cost of billions of dollars and the loss of thousands of lives. And yet the ideology of violence and hatred espoused by the Islamic State lives on and has spread into cities in the West like a poison with no antidote.
New Orleans attacker ‘inspired by ISIS’

Jan 1, 2025 | thespectator.com | Tom Goodenough

President Joe Biden has confirmed that a terrorist who killed fifteen people during the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans was “inspired by ISIS.” Biden said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar — who also injured at least thirty-five people after driving his pick-up truck through crowds of revelers — had expressed a “desire to kill” in videos posted online. An ISIS flag was found in Jabbar’s Ford F-150 Lightning vehicle, Biden confirmed. “The situation is very fluid,” the president said.
Marc Guehi has exposed the flaw in football’s Rainbow Laces campaign

Dec 4, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Tom Goodenough

Is the Football Association’s Rainbow Laces campaign about inclusivity or not? The FA doesn’t seem to be able to make up its mind. When Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi wrote ‘I love Jesus’ on his rainbow-coloured armband during his side’s draw against Newcastle United on Saturday, he was ‘reminded’ by the FA that religious messaging on kit is banned.
Marc Guehi has exposed the flaw in football's Rainbow Laces campaign

Dec 4, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Tom Goodenough

Is the Football Association’s Rainbow Laces campaign about inclusivity or not? The FA doesn’t seem to be able to make up its mind. When Crystal Palace captain Marc Guehi wrote ‘I love Jesus’ on his rainbow-coloured armband during his side’s draw against Newcastle United on Saturday, he was ‘reminded’ by the FA that religious messaging on kit is banned. Last night, Guehi called the FA’s bluff by writing another message – ‘Jesus loves you’ – on his armband in Crystal Palace’s game against Ipswich.