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Bill de Blasio unites cops and protesters — in disgust

4 June 2020 5:02 am

New York City is crumbling into shambolic lawlessness and its citizens are growing more afraid and frustrated by the day.…

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Mayhem in Manhattan

3 June 2020 1:22 am

It’s important — and easy — to tell the difference between protesters and looters. Just as New York should have…

Dion, one of the last living links to the earliest days of rock ’n’ roll

30 May 2020 9:00 am

He toured with Little Richard, sang with Van Morrison, inspired the Beatles and Paul Simon. Graeme Thomson talks to Dion, one of the last living links to the early days of street-corner rock ’n’ roll

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Cuomo’s COVID carnage

14 May 2020 6:48 am

Have we reached peak Cuomo? I think that the climacteric came when the media was aflutter with rumors that the…

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New York has mismanaged COVID-19 from top to bottom

9 May 2020 9:36 am

Andrew Cuomo is having the time of his life. His approval ratings are through the roof and he’s being talked…

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Lockdown is over. Someone tell the government

6 May 2020 3:31 am

The coronavirus shutdown is over by public demand. There are crowds of sunbathers in the parks of New York City…

Have we been fighting a very different disease to China?

4 May 2020 10:13 pm

One of the great mysteries of coronavirus is how the epidemic has become much more severe in Europe and North…

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Bill de Blasio isn’t an anti-Semite but…

30 April 2020 5:08 am

Bumbling Bill de Blasio is all thumbs, and not just on Twitter. Slow to respond when Orthodox Jews suffered an…

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COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance

27 April 2020 9:04 pm

If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…

In New York’s hospitals, we need all the help we can get

11 April 2020 9:00 am

 New York I hear it said now and again that Covid-19 is just a nasty winter bug, nothing more than…

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No, the coronavirus isn’t racist

11 April 2020 3:20 am

It was just a matter of time before the coronavirus was leveraged as a tool of race politics. With the…

Life, of a sort, still goes on in New York City

4 April 2020 9:00 am

‘How are you bearing up?’ ‘Is everyone terrified?’ ‘What’s the mood?’ These are the questions concerned family and friends are…

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Life and death in New York City

3 April 2020 12:54 pm

No matter where in the apartment I am, if I sit very still, I hear a siren. Over the 18…

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Bursting the Cuomo bubble

31 March 2020 5:30 am

Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. He enjoys ubiquitous coverage. His press conferences attract viewership second only to the president’s.…

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Consider the costs

22 March 2020 9:33 pm

Less than 24 hours after California governor Gavin Newsom closed ‘non-essential’ businesses and ordered Californians to stay inside to avoid…

Susan Hill: The brilliance of the NHS cancer service

15 February 2020 9:00 am

Exactly 50 years ago I drove, for the first visit of many, across country to Aldeburgh in Suffolk, following the…

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In 2020, Trump must save the cities

3 December 2019 6:04 am

This article is in The Spectator’s December 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. In 2014, America’s progressives got a wake-up call. That year,…

The cops are impotent in lawless New York

23 November 2019 9:00 am

New York   Things are heating up, in both London and Nueva York, as this place should correctly be called.…

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Don’t write off Joey Salads

30 September 2019 5:41 am

Freshman Democrat Rep. Max Rose must steel himself for a tough re-election scrum in his Republican-leaning district. An unconventional, Trumpian…

An elegy for New York

28 September 2019 9:00 am

New York The master of the love letter to New York, E.B. White, eloquently described the city as a place…

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Farewell to Bill de Blasio, 2020’s least consequential candidate

21 September 2019 12:15 am

Friday news drops are often saved for surprising or important stories. What NYC mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Morning…

Pity poor Candace Bushnell, still flogging Sex and the City at 60

17 August 2019 9:00 am

On paper, Candace Bushnell and the medieval warlord El Cid don’t have a lot in common. The first made a…

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A drag army in waiting: This Brutal House, by Niven Govinden, reviewed

29 June 2019 9:00 am

Niven Govinden’s This Brutal House is set in the demi-monde of the New York vogue ball. This is an organised,…

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Parallel worlds: The Heavens, by Sandra Newman, reviewed

18 May 2019 9:00 am

The Heavens is Sandra Newman’s eighth book. It follows novels featuring, variously, sex addiction, Buddhism and a post-apocalyptic teen dystopia;…

The death of New York’s nightlife

18 May 2019 9:00 am

New York   This is my last week in the Bagel and I’m going to give it the old college…