October 2020

The Spectator would like to make one appeal in this tumultuous year: for America to keep faith in democracy.’


Home October 1, 2020

The next so-called civil war

‘To-day the doctor says I must die — all is over with me — ah, so young to die’

Bill Kauffman

Place October 1, 2020

My debt to Royaumont

A Spanish flag flew on the palace to protect it from the occupying Germans

David Pryce-Jones

Diary October 1, 2020

New York has turned ugly

I haven’t seen so many overflowing garbage cans or homeless people since the 1970s

John R. MacArthur

Internet October 1, 2020

The coming stitch-up

The Tangled Web We Weave: Inside the Shadow System That Shapes the Internet by James Ball reviewed

Cory Doctorow

Faith October 1, 2020

The new crusaders

Churches have become a target for the young and angry

Luke Coppen

Place October 1, 2020

The most locked-down couple in Eastern Europe

My wife had broken her heel and I was stricken with sciatica

John O’Sullivan

Faith October 1, 2020

Antifa made me Christian

If religion is opium, Marxism is crystal meth

Chadwick Moore

Home October 1, 2020

Rotten apple: New Yorkers are fleeing to the suburbs

The tradesmen have never been busier, sprucing up houses to New York tastes. White everything, I’m told

Philip Delves Broughton

Home October 1, 2020

A lament for the foreign correspondent’s house — and his hospitality

He claimed to love riots, and I have no trouble believing it

Jeremy Clarke

High Life October 1, 2020

The art of being a mistress

Nobody ever wins when dealing with the Saudis, and Juan Carlos was no exception

Taki

Internet October 1, 2020

Letters from the politically homeless

Almost every Democrat voting for Trump has a story about being ostracized, shamed or losing a friend

Bridget Phetasy