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Who was the real Anthony Bourdain?
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (404+ words) Which Bourdain is the real one, the warms-your-cockles A24 version or the archetypal chef-junkie? Was he a chef, cook, writer or broadcaster? Was he an artist or a rock star? A decade later, on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Bourdain, now with several…...
Fantasy football is good for you??? and your kids
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (760+ words) It’s 3.19 am and my brain cells are ricocheting. Nothing to do with the usual sleep-wreckers of money, sex or work but this: how to fit Antoine Semenyo, Bruno Fernandes and Morgan Rogers into my Fantasy Premier League (FPL) team before…...
What a dead bird taught me about the English class system
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (564+ words) The most intimidating moment of my three-and-a-half years as Poland’s ambassador to Britain did not take place in Downing Street, Buckingham Palace or the Foreign Office. It happened over lunch at White’s, one of London’s oldest private members’ clubs, and…...
We need more emergency phone alerts
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (212+ words) Last night, my phone, which was set to silent, erupted with the sort of siren one associates with immediately life-threatening emergencies. If you live in England or Wales, yours probably did too. The alert didn’t warn us of an emergency…...
AOC, the radical for normies
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (427+ words) According to the prediction betting markets, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now favourite to be the Democratic nominee in 2028. Given that the Democrats are strongly expected to win back the presidency, that suggests the 36-year-old congresswoman from the Bronx has an extremely…...
Why is Cambridge platforming Islamic creationism?
2+ hour, 24+ min ago (370+ words) An academic project hosted by Cambridge University platforms creationism, the belief that the world was created by God in seven days. It promotes an academic paper demanding that schoolchildren be taught to “actively resist” the science of evolution. At Charles…...
The Iran crisis has exposed Britain???s strategic paralysis
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (1025+ words) The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis The Spectator Australia The Iran crisis has exposed Britain’s strategic paralysis I have often joked that in the unlikely event that Iran launched a direct, full-scale attack on Europe, Foreign Office officials…...
The tragedy of Jason Arday
2+ hour, 27+ min ago (448+ words) The Spectator Australia The tragedy of Jason Arday Simon Baron-Cohen, the distinguished Cambridge autism specialist, has been speaking movingly about his friend, Jason Arday, in a BBC radio interview. Baron-Cohen said the last contact he had with Arday was hours…...
Textbooks will be written about how Australia turned into Argentina
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (449+ words) Aluminium’s nickname in the ‘trade’ is congealed electricity. This is in large part because its production (bauxite is refined into alumina; alumina is smelted into aluminium) is incredibly energy-intensive. It takes about 15,000 kilowatt hours to make one tonne, which is…...
The wildfires phone notification was hysterical
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (220+ words) The Spectator Australia The wildfires phone notification was hysterical It’s reassuring to know the government has the ability to live-tweet the slow decline of Britain. We won’t go out with a whimper: we’ll crash out with a screaming phone alert....