Trump is saving Nato
Isn’t it bromantic?
London
Wednesday
Sunday
A beginner’s guide to the narwhal
Yes, they ’ re real
Wednesday
There’s no need to mourn the loss of Uber’s London license
Call me old-fashioned, but I still prefer the pottering black cab
Tuesday
Rejoice in the birth of the gender-neutral penguin
Penguin Pride begins NOW
Thursday
The joys of Independence Day in London
The deep currents of enlightened self-interest have for more than two centuries brought the US and UK together
Monday
My terrifying journey into the dark heart of far right comedy
At a fascist evening, nobody was decent enough to openly express their white supremacy
Monday
Fact check: New York Times’s London foodie ‘knowledge’
The New York Times is at it again. It was only back in May that Spectator USA was forced to call into question the paper’s coverage of Britain, after a curious article on ‘Austerity Britain’ by one Peter S Goodman appeared, complete with a slew of glaring omissions. Well, now it seems that the NYT has staggered off its stool for another bruising round. A food review of London has been published in its Blighty-sceptic pages, and it can’t be said to be very much better than poor Mr Goodman’s. The author, Robert Draper, has written an article about the capital’s food scene, in which he praises the city for having turned its back
Thursday
A hymn to self-loathing: Tibor Fischer’s How to Rule the World reviewed
Tibor Fischer has a track record with humour. His first novel, the Booker shortlisted Under the Frog, takes its title from a Hungarian saying that the worst possible place to be is ‘under a frog’s arse down a coal mine’. And he also has form with being a bit meta: his third novel, The Collector Collector, was narrated by an earthenware pot. Here he throws his weight behind a character who feels like he’s walked off the set of Brass Eye or Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. It’s not entirely clear whether we are supposed to loathe him or sympathise with him. Baxter Stone is a filmmaker whose best days are
