Will Lloyd

The lost souls of the Atrium hotel

26 November 2022 5:46 pm

Heathrow, in London’s western outlands, never lets you forget it’s there. Jets ascend and descend constantly, turning the air into…

The rise and fall of Netflix

28 December 2020 7:00 pm

In 2010, Jeff Bewkes, then CEO of Time Warner, was asked if he thought Netflix had any chance of taking…

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Donald Trump is a medieval king

14 October 2020 9:24 am

What the hell are we all going to talk about when he’s gone? That’s the barely disguised fear of wonks and analysts,…

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Fascism: the most abused term in America

25 September 2020 5:34 am

A well-dressed young man walks down the Potsdamer Straße in Berlin, days before the end of March in 1933. He’s…

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Scrap presidential debates — but not this year

18 September 2020 1:36 am

The toughest moment of Joe Biden’s year arrived in May. It was harder than seeing off Bernie Sanders, harder even…

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Is your baby racist?

3 September 2020 7:41 am

Babies, look at them: waddling about the place, falling over, crying, needy. Those racist bastards. Yeah that’s right, you heard…

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We are all Rachel Dolezal now

27 August 2020 1:46 am

As late as 2014, most Americans felt there was no need for the country to make any changes to address…

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A country for old men

20 August 2020 5:01 am

When 83-year-old New Jersey congressman Bill Pascrell shared a photo of American lawmakers meeting a Chinese trade delegation in Washington…

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Silence isn’t violence

22 July 2020 11:51 pm

In the evenings, when I want to relax, I watch a Russian named Max build a log cabin. Max is,…

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Extra, extra — read all about us!

16 July 2020 3:39 am

Instead of telling us about America, or even the world outside, American journalists now tell us about other American journalists. The…

If only Kanye’s run were serious

11 July 2020 5:05 am

It was June 2015. Bill Maher was holding court with assorted journalists to discuss the 2016 race. The Republican field…

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You say you want a revolution?

24 June 2020 11:29 pm

In the early hours of May 30, after a night of violent protests in New York, two lawyers were arrested by the…

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Would Joe Biden defund the police?

8 June 2020 7:15 am

Thanks to the nature of digital media, the last 10 days can be seen in entirely different ways. On one…

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Trump’s hydroxychloroquine kick is a billionaire quirk

21 May 2020 7:47 am

Though it is yet to enjoy the endorsement of the UN, or the approval of the Supreme Court, the greatest…

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Is it time to bring back Steve Bannon?

19 May 2020 8:19 am

Until recently, it seemed unlikely that Donald Trump would need to call on the services of his former strategist Steve…

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Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left?

21 April 2020 6:09 am

Forgive the analogy that follows. Is Bernie Sanders the Barry Goldwater of the left? Has Sanders, to echo the words…

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Joe Biden, restoration man

8 March 2020 9:33 am

The results of Super Tuesday show that while Joe Biden can’t be described as coherent, the Biden campaign has found…

Joe Biden

Joe Biden should do town halls forever

17 February 2020 10:54 am

While a successful politician in many ways, Joe Biden’s attempts to become president are marked by quite a severe flaw…

A night with Bernie Sanders’s brother

6 February 2020 9:34 pm

Larry Sanders, Bernie’s literal bro, moved to England in the late 1960s and settled in picture postcard Oxford. I was…

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Seven candidates who could save the Democrats in 2020

29 October 2019 1:51 am

Has there ever been a more cack-handed, sloppy bunch of goons than these Democratic candidates? Ancient Joe Biden looks like…

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Does anyone have a job for Chelsea Clinton?

17 October 2019 8:41 am

For a long time now, those of us who have the misfortune to have working eyes and ears have become…

The age of LOLitics

30 September 2019 10:54 pm

This article is in The Spectator’s inaugural US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. One thing is now as obvious as a brick…

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Joe Biden versus the internet

23 September 2019 2:04 pm

The paradox of Joe Biden is well known. How does the experienced, effective, formidable politician turn into such a fiasco-stalked…

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Rise of the comrade babies

7 August 2019 2:15 am

If you elected to build a library dedicated to the subject of Human Folly, the place would end up as…

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When did Congressional testimony become performance art?

13 June 2019 1:49 am

Watching parts of the Watergate hearings again recently, I was struck by just how dry they are as a spectacle.…