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Cockburn
Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip. Send tips and party invites to cockburn@thespectator.com.
Friday
Tuesday
The twilight of Diamond and Silk
Trump wants the pair back on Fox. But will the network listen?
Sunday
Chris Cuomo’s coronavirus circus
Cuomo rose from the dead on Easter Sunday
Thursday
Inside the Chinese Twitter spin machine
Because the Beijing trolls clearly despise Trump’s America, fewer pundits seem to mind
Tuesday
National Review: for Trump in 2020?
The ‘menace to American conservatism’ recommends NR articles to the press corps
Friday
Why is the New York Times shilling for the World Health Organization?
The Times feels more loyalty to failing global institutions than to the Americans who buy its newspapers
Wednesday
DC coronavirus newsletters get assist from Big Pharma lobby
Didn’t they help get us into this mess?
Wednesday
New York Post and Washington Examiner fall for Tom Brady Twitter hoax
Sorry to deflate your hopes, Trump fans
Thursday
Joe Biden’s picks for the first female Veep
Cockburn noticed a small piece of paper by Biden’s elbow on his livestream yesterday — a list of names, written in a shaky hand
Wednesday
Do Democrats really need Joe Biden to stay alive?
A look ahead to America’s first hologram presidency
Friday
The Spectator’s guide to video conference etiquette
The video call is digital Darwinism: make sure you aren’t the silenced
Tuesday
The brothers Cuomo
A live TV debate about who mom loves more
Sunday
How media outlets are coping with coronavirus
Most of the media is working from home
Wednesday
Jim Antle out at the American Conservative
One of America’s best magazines loses one of Washington’s finest
Thursday
Twelve ideas for Democratic debate themes
AOC is right: a themed debate would be more entertaining
Thursday
An exclusive first look at the Sussex Royal catalog
Who fancies a bottle of Eau de Markle™?
Tuesday
Exclusive: the Iranian cultural sites Trump will bomb
The Imam Reza shrine has been moved up the US target list and is now just ahead of the Whole Foods Market in the Grand Bazaar of Tehran
Tuesday
The Washington Post gets the British elections wrong
Nobody in Britain is politically literate
Wednesday
Paul Gosar’s painstaking Epstein Twitter thread
Scroll down his feed and read the first letter of every tweet
Friday
Cernovich, Watson and PewDiePie get to grips with No Nut November
Isn’t it strange that the edgelords are sounding like Victorian preachers?
