Kara Kennedy is a staff writer at The Spectator World.
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This week: President Trump’s plan to Make America Greater In the cover piece for the magazine, our deputy editor and host of the Americano podcast, Freddy Gray, delves into Trump’s plans. He speaks to insiders, including Steve Bannon, about the President’s ambitions for empire-building. Could he really take over Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal?
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At around five weeks into my pregnancy my phone found out about it, and from that point on I was subjected to a barrage of social media content about how much children suck. The first was a video by a woman with the username @childfreemillennial, who filmed herself walking through the children’s clothing aisle at
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On this week’s Spectator Out Loud: Sean Thomas worries that Paris has lost some of its charm (1:21); Kara Kennedy reports on US-style opioids arriving in Britain (8:43); Philip Hensher describes how an affair which ruined one woman would be the making of another (15:32); Damian Thompson reflects on his sobriety and his battle with British
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In Europe at the end of the Noughties, the problem drug was krokodil. The semi-synthetic, necrosis-causing alternative to heroin was cheap. My father favoured it so much before his death that he started importing it from eastern Europe into Wales. Across the pond right now, the problem drug is fentanyl, which has made its way
On Instagram, a nice Catholic boy stands out in a crowd of lip-filled, drugged out memelords and wellness scammers
Reality TV stars have been Hollywood’s fallback option of late. During these writers’ and actors’ strikes, that could change
The California governor is said to be screening the duchess’s calls as she begs to be appointed Dianne Feinstein’s replacement in the Senate
Reports claim that the couple are ‘taking time apart’ to heal and rebuild their bond
A decade ago, Calloway was all the rage, an Instagram celebrity with actual writing talent, a pretty face and a promising future
Freedom isn’t free. But the Champagne is
Stop telling them how to spend their money
‘Megs didn’t get Dior but she wants to be Di’
In a country spinning out of control, we need Karens more than ever
Jacob Rees-Mogg has, in recent years, become a caricature of a British conservative
She was in the backstages, the bedrooms and the jam sessions with some of the most iconic musicians of all time
He is accustomed to a luxurious life and some of these castles are getting far too shabby nowadays
No one is surprised by the departure of the British Vogue editor
Will Prince Harry be sent packing?
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‘I do not think we do our children any favours by pretending that slavery didn’t exist,’ wrote Royal Academy of Dramatic Art chair Marcus Ryder, in a blog about the newly remade Disney adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale The Little Mermaid. ‘Setting the fantastical story in this time and place is literally the equivalent
The paparazzi can be a star’s worst enemies — or her best friends
