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[@TheSpectator](/creator/twitter/TheSpectator)
"The whole construction of secular history is at some level an illusion. Nick Land the father of accelerationism spoke to Monica Sobchak for the latest edition of @TheSpectator. @Mochak123 @xenocosmography"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980596463165227197) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T11:26Z 51.1K followers, 112.8K engagements


""In the past four seasons especially the Met has failed to fill the house or turn a profit. Last year it sold just XX percent of its capacity." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980820171552903300) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T02:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The patio for high heels the luxe ballroom for your first dance space for a band or a DJ. These changes seem far more sensible than some of Trumps others." ✍ Cockburn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980876789103710684) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T06:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""'John Bolton Surrenders To Federal Authorities' is a headline I could have only dreamed of seeing XX years ago but this morning it came true." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979239327126196242) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-17T17:33Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Now lets be clear even though we can dream this isnt Julius and Ethel Rosenberg or Aldrich Ames-like stuff. Bolton was just trying to enjoy a final cashing-in on a lifelong career of neoconservative warmongering." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979276259117981807) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-17T20:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Unlike James Comey and Letitia James Trumps other two most powerful recent lawfare targets Boltons indictment actually has a chance to stick." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979363069479309732) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-18T01:45Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""John Bolton as the ultimate defender of free speech dissent and disagreement feels like a bit much to me. Next thing you know Democrats will be trying to rehabilitate the reputation of the Cheney family." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979491407908716603) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-18T10:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Lucine and I purchased our soon-to-be-former home in 1992 from a charming eccentric who had named it 'La Maison des Fleurs Printemps' and the first thing I did upon moving in was to rip out that sign." ✍ Bill Kauffman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979831145312231552) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T08:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Thanks to the David Bowie Centre the curious public can get its closest look yet into the artists mind and imagination. And as a bonus its free too." ✍ Alexander Larman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979940636309528970) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T16:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""While Russias threat might come from desperate actions as it falls behind its rivals China on the other hand is a rapidly growing space power with an avowed intent to become the worlds premier space nation." ✍ David Whitehouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979948168444842139) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T16:30Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""The restaurant has floor-to-ceiling picture windows and a fabulous view of the Parthenon-topped Acropolis. If you want a dramatic nighttime scene they are open on Friday and Saturday evenings." ✍ Loyd Grossman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979963287367237861) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T17:30Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""The militarization of space is a pressing issue that has been growing more urgent since 2015 when China declared space a war-fighting domain. Since then it has increased its spy satellites by XXX percent." ✍ David Whitehouse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980012349676224711) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T20:45Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""The overriding principle the Met missed over the past two seasons is that 21st-century audiences come to the opera to escape. They come to bask in stories of high drama tragedy whimsy love." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980019909116494171) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T21:15Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""In the world of the chatbot flattery really does get you everywhere. Human testers prefer fawning. They rank sycophantic answers more highly than non-sycophantic ones." ✍ Lara Brown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980042530688254108) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-19T22:45Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""Would anyone wish to live as he does with a terror of dragonflies convinced they bite Or with an exaggerated fear of certain local areas making travel difficult because of a past misunderstanding with a bus driver or passenger" ✍ Elisa Segrave"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980068961543754111) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T00:30Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""Just this February general director Peter Gelb lamented audiences lack of interest in the Mets slate of contemporary operas. 'Its impossible to predict hits' said the man paid $XXX million a year to well predict hits." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980242610213003632) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T12:00Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""Last month 64-year-old Sanae Takaichi became the first female head of the Liberal Democrat Party the party that has ruled Japan for all but X of the last XX years. She is now Japans first female prime minister." ✍ Francis Pike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980261499399463099) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T13:15Z 51K followers, XXX engagements


""Leading a weak minority government and facing formidable economic problems particularly in the face of Trumps tariff policies Takaichi is unlikely to last a four-year term." ✍ Francis Pike"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980340751624990738) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T18:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Harris repeats the usual phrases about threats to democracy but to her they are just that phrases. There is no real belief here for her it all became a racket a long time ago." ✍ Travis Aaroe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980344531812761863) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T18:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Not only have these ideas filtered their way down into the general population but so has the notion that the study of psychology is the best possible way to understand the human predicament." ✍ Theodore Dalrymple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980597460213866945) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T11:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""What this means then is that were on the verge of eliminating motherhood quite breezily and easily and without much thought." ✍ Mary Wakefield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980642761087812016) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T14:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""President Trump like many of his forebears is remaking the White House in his own image. The Donald has just finished giving a speech to Republican senators at the 'Rose Garden Club' which he paved over earlier in the year." ✍ Cockburn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980705975607709900) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T18:41Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""On November X 2024 Maccabi Tel Aviv played AFC Ajax at Amsterdams Johan Cruyff Arena. Both before the match and after it clashes broke out across the city." ✍ Brendan ONeill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980710718669226325) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T19:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""In its 2025-26 season slate the Met finally seems to be wising up but it faces an uphill climb. For the better part of a decade the company has been financially unprofitable artistically boring and actively hostile to its audience." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980718248774496305) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T19:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""As long as Ive lived here one of the things thats never ceased to amaze me is the cult status that rats have been able to assume. Rats grace Tshirts mugs and caps in souvenir stores." ✍ Josie Cox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980906994702733680) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T08:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Carpenter seems to at least on a personal level deride her own role in her admittedly dismal love life. This process of admission is anything but sad." ✍ Germn Saucedo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980299224827720004) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T15:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Nearly every single contemporary opera put on by the Met that has focused on recent events current social issues or contemporary figures has flopped." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980310548823552288) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T16:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Why does the left hate J.D. Vance so much Why does he prompt so much vociferous loathing" From @bdomenech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980325656958284016) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T17:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The Met does not need to abandon contemporary opera. What it does need to do is refocus its programming on the types of monumental heroic tragic or comic stories that audiences come to see." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980355846610591888) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T19:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Those of us trapped in Mayor Sadiq Khans London are now obedient resigned. We expect a car journey of under a mile to take XX minutes. We dont hope for anything more." ✍ Mary Wakefield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980367183721979994) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T20:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Throughout XXX Days there is no sense of a national debate going on no phrases no policies no real attempt to rouse the present order in its own defense." ✍ Travis Aaroe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980386057947381974) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T21:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The Metropolitan Museum of Arts Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson is a must-see show." ✍ Paul Devlin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980412473892016527) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T23:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""When the movies eventually came to be made the lead role went to Tom Hanks. Even he could do nothing to offer a spark of life to the character aside from a slightly folksy 'aw shucks' quality." ✍ J.S. Barnes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980548376593580531) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T08:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Ciattarrelli has leaned into the Trump aesthetic in a last minute blitz through the state holding a rally in Wildwood with a slew of MAGA influencers. There are several more stops to come." ✍ Gage Klipper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980574792198549864) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T10:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Loomer says with palpable enthusiasm 'Im very passionate about supporting President Trump and his agenda so that we can truly make America great again instead of just having it be some pipe dream and a slogan on a red hat.'" From @benclerkin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980676734514016326) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T16:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Showgirl is conceptually mature and compelling a victorious celebration of love an examination of the contradictions of fame and a feisty settling of scores although it is not as lyrically polished as folklore and evermore." ✍ Veronica Clarke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980703146595811657) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T18:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""He has damaged the interests of the Oxford Union and brought it into disrepute. Free speech can have perfectly justifiable consequences and 1227 members evidently agree with me." ✍ Adrian Hilton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980714467265487272) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T19:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""I think Andrews might have branded this wrongly. The thing to fear may not be feminization but emasculation: the loss of traditionally male qualities which cannot survive below a certain threshold." ✍ Rory Sutherland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980726742089171056) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T20:03Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Will the Trump effect finally see mass appeal Perhaps Trump will finally help turnout voters even when hes not on the ballot a claim hes often made but has proven questionable at best." ✍ Gage Klipper"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980763551271735713) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T22:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""McEwens fictitious obituaries are small masterpieces of the uncanny. In the instant of reading one the hypothesized death seems real." ✍ James Cahill"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980891904116945186) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T07:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Death is increasingly an occupational hazard in the polarized world that Loomer inhabits. What makes her even more of a target than other online provocateurs is the sheer number of enemies she has made." From @benclerkin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980612028021563558) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T12:28Z 51.1K followers, 26.9K engagements


""Since news circulated of his moment of ecstasy at the shooting of Charlie Kirk last month Abaraonye has been trying to redeem himself with exculpatory excuses." ✍ Adrian Hilton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980624711781408771) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T13:18Z 51.1K followers, 3657 engagements


""Loomer has stood twice for Congress but when asked about standing again she says: 'I cant think of anything Id like to do more aside from gouging my eyes out than running for office.'" From @benclerkin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980744667940458772) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T21:15Z 51.1K followers, 37.1K engagements


""It was stiflingly hot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. I was exploring the eastern Galpagos Islands living cheek-by-jowl on a former casino ship with a cast of characters plucked straight from a murder mystery novel." ✍ Saffron Swire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980812631050006647) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T01:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""For the girls in La Diablas grip the promises proved empty. The babies were cut from the young mothers bodies and sold for as much as 250000 pesos ($14000) to American buyers in El Paso Texas." From @KatarinaSzulc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981069321515286868) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T18:45Z 51.1K followers, 1018 engagements


""The 'No Kings' movement and the unrest surrounding it are more than a domestic spectacle. They are the mirror through which Americas rivals now view the worlds leading democracy." ✍ Sam Olsen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981125946645074417) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T22:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Competition between the US and China will shape the 21st century but have the Chinese already leap-frogged the Americans It looks as if they might have done." From @hsu_steve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980684287423774953) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T17:15Z 51.1K followers, 44.7K engagements


""A new Tucker Carlson documentary The 9/11 Files makes a different accusation against Saudi Arabia. Carlson argues that Saudi agents were working undercover to get inside al-Qaeda and in the process gave the hijackers crucial support." ✍ Paul Wood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981065542246002817) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T18:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The industrial-scale operation uncovered in Jurez points to something new: a cartel cutting babies straight out of mothers and then selling them to the highest bidder." From @KatarinaSzulc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981171238706753779) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-23T01:30Z 51.1K followers, 1477 engagements


""Iranian hackers representatives of a government that wouldnt mind targeting Trump not to mention Bolton also have access to AOL. According to the indictment they intercepted the messages." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979313999842820153) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-17T22:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""In my mind Boltons indictment is about yellowcake uranium not about saying mean things about Donald Trump in a memoir called The Room Where It Happened." ✍ Neal Pollack"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1979344196713456072) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-18T00:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


"'Globalism' has become a dirty word; populism is in; no one likes Bill Gates; Christian nationalism is on the upswing. Jones has been screaming for all this for the past two decades." From @PrufrocksBurner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980450224414867851) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T01:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""In a few decades there might well be a rising tide of motherless children. I dont just feel sentimentally sad about this I feel dread and grief." ✍ Mary Wakefield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980793740898783381) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T00:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The Life of a Showgirl balances glitter with grit. Its not a flawless record. 'Wood' is awkward 'Eldest Daughter' is opaque and unengaging; darker cuts such as 'Father Figure' and 'CANCELLED' will divide listeners." ✍ Veronica Clarke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980801333063008731) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T01:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Trump of course made his name in real estate and construction. As a result he appears determined to tailor the White House for one of its intended purposes: as a wedding venue." ✍ Cockburn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980808849779999156) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T01:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Is Loomer a sociopath Shes variously branded a conspiracy theorist an Islamophobe a white nationalist and horror of horrors a body-shamer after tweeting: 'Yikes AOC has gained at least XX pounds since getting into Congress.'" From @benclerkin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980978711823348014) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T12:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""While other tech giants have been publicly censoring your thoughts and selling your data Microsoft has been quietly and diplomatically building a monopoly on federal tech contracts." ✍ Jack Kieffaber"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980691819571666988) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-21T17:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


"We've just gone to press with the October XX edition of @TheSpectator. - @DouglasKMurray on the violent state of the American left - @C__Herridge on James Comey's 'knight in shining armor' complex - @HMDatMI on how the race hustle is losing its power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1973832577732448476) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-02T19:28Z 51.1K followers, 231.5K engagements


""A new Woolf typescript is cause for celebration. Two cheers for Seshagiri. But this new edition is a weak casket." ✍ Oliver Soden"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1977396379753337276) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-12T15:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The best that can be said of Kamala Harris is that she was not really central to anything. There is none of the divine madness of say Hillary Clinton here." ✍ Travis Aaroe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980257969200582668) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-20T13:01Z 51.1K followers, 3040 engagements


""Such tracks as the cinematic 'The Fate of Ophelia' and the joyous 'Opalite' alongside 'Ruin the Friendship' prove that pop precision and personal storytelling can coexist." ✍ Veronica Clarke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980937224234361186) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T10:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Gianluca and I mounted the steps to the Friedrichsbad in Baden-Baden Germany in pensive silence. We hadnt made eye contact since wed met in reception at our hotel the divine Brenners for this rendezvous with destiny." ✍ Rachel Johnson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1980956062585893016) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T11:15Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""Its an album that has enough to please both fans and casual listeners. And its better than 1989." ✍ Veronica Clarke"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981008914930962655) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T14:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The biggest reason audiences havent come out in recent years is quite simply that they dont want what the Met is selling." ✍ Don Baton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981039110740402580) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T16:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""In Burn After Reading the Coen brothers turn their lens just outside the political core of Washington looking at the lives of pompous bureaucrats and some gym employees who try to blackmail them." ✍ Kelly Chapman"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981141039529230838) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-22T23:30Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The longer Washingtons attention is consumed by its own legitimacy crisis the more freedom its rivals have to act cautiously cumulatively below the threshold of open war." ✍ Sam Olsen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981175006118699138) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-23T01:45Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements


""The polling on this question has been consistent and widespread finding a clear trendline toward increased opposition to Israel and even support for Hamas among younger voters." From @bdomenech"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheSpectator/status/1981193885972902393) [@TheSpectator](/creator/x/TheSpectator) 2025-10-23T03:00Z 51.1K followers, XXX engagements