Uri Kurlianchick

Oct 4, 2024 | thespectator.com | Paul Wood |Boris Johnson |Arieh Kovler |Uri Kurlianchick

Boris Johnson’s new memoir Unleashed is to be published next week, and with the highly-anticipated account promising to be the “political memoir of the century,” Cockburn was rather interested in what exactly it contains within its pages. Cockburn has put together a list of the top 15 things we learned from the former Prime Minister’s lengthy memoir…First to one of the most prominent scandals of Boris Johnson’s career: the matter of Partygate.

Sep 18, 2024 | thespectator.com | Arieh Kovler |Anne De Courcy |Uri Kurlianchick |Limor Simhony Philpott

At the end of the 2014 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, the plucky spy hero is in trouble deep in an enemy base. Suddenly his tech wizard figures out that he can hack into the microchips inside the enemies’ heads and make them all explode. The bad guys all go boom. Hezbollah fighters must be asking themselves what other tricks Israel might have up its sleevesOn Tuesday night, the spy thriller trope became real. Across Lebanon, Hezbollah operatives’ secure pagers exploded.

Sep 12, 2024 | thespectator.com | Uri Kurlianchick |Sean Thomas |Alexander Larman |Amber Duke

October 7 was the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Some refer to it as Israel’s 9/11, though proportionally it was like fifteen 9/11s. However, numbers rarely tell the full story and here they fall devastatingly short. I was awake when it started. I’ve always been a night owl but staying up until six in the morning is unusual for me. On that bright fall morning I heard sounds like a thunderstorm and went outside to see what was going on.