What Really Happens During a Residential Unpacking Service?
Arriving at a new home is exciting, but the first hours after a move can quickly become overwhelming. Boxes may cover the floors, furniture may…
How Miami Third Worldism swallowed MAGA
The Trump administration this week pummeled Cuba with yet another round of sanctions, this time targeting its mining, construction, and metals sector. The US government continues to tighten an economic…
Britain’s penny-pinching panopticon
Were a filmmaker looking for a location to shoot a dystopian thriller, they could do worse than choose the Ministry of Justice’s Westminster offices. 102 Petty France, a brutalist masterpiece,…
The flight of middle-class luxuries
It’s easy to forget that the war with Iran was supposed to be a cinch. To say that it has not worked out that way would be an understatement. While…
What Farage can teach Prince Harry
It’s partly the fault of Liz Truss that Prince Harry is so stressed. After a decade of Prime Ministerial merry-go-round that has seen more turnover at No. 10 than on…
The madness of Trump’s Canada trade war
The greatest threat today to American manufacturing and global exports comes from China. The People’s Republic has far surpassed the United States in industrial output and competes with Washington in…
The enshittification of Netflix
Do you remember Adolescence, the Netflix hit that prompted all that soul-searching about teenage boys? The series won many plaudits for the streaming giant, which Ofcom recently revealed is the…
The return of the foot fetish
Last week, the 31-year-old actress Margaret Qualley showed up to the London premiere of her newest film, The Dog Stars, wearing a “barefoot heel cap sandal” from Chanel — a…
Should feminists pity Lindsay Clancy?
In 2006, a British man called John Hogan leapt from a fourth-floor hotel balcony, holding his two small children in his arms. He had been arguing with his wife during…
Germany’s Nord Stream grudge
The Germans have just caught another alleged member of the group that bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines in September 2022. Volodymyr Zhuravlev, a deep-sea diver, was detained last week…
The sacred art of graffiti
For many years I had been obsessed by cave art. In the late summer of 2025, I traveled to Carcassonne to host a literary salon at Convenanza, the late DJ…