Britain in Crisis: Army and Welfare | The Spectator

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La obra secreta de David Bowie: The Spectator | #RollingStoneES

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100 Tage #Bundeskanzler Merz:

Von den ersten 100 Tagen profitiert vor allem die AfD, betont #TheSpectator:

„Wir werden nicht nur Zeugen politischer #Inkompetenz, sondern wohnen einer Lehrstunde bei, wie man die #Demokratie für #Populisten auf dem Präsentierteller anrichtet und dabei davon überzeugt ist, sie zu verteidigen.

... waren kein #Misserfolg, sie waren etwas weitaus Gefährlicheres: ein Meisterwerk des politischen #Selbstmords, getarnt als #Regierungsarbeit.
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Häme in Bild, Spiegel und der ARD, dröhnendes Schweigen im Fediversum.
Danke an #TheSpectator und die #BBC für ihr Mitgefühl.

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How I wrote the newest Sherlock Holmes novel – The Spectator World

By Gareth Rubin

How I wrote the newest Sherlock Holmes novel

It wasn’t so elementary, Watson, Wednesday, July 23, 2025

I don’t think anyone has ever come up with a word to describe an authorized author. It’s not quite a tautology. The writer, who has been invited to write a novel continuing the body of work of another, might, possibly, be an example of literary parthenogenesis. Or, more pejoratively, karaoke.

Who knows? But either way, it’s a growth industry. You will have seen the new authorized James Bond novels, the recently crafted Miss Marple and George Smiley outings that have appeared on the bookstore shelves over the past few years to some fanfare – despite the fact that those characters’ creators are very much pushing up the daisies. No, the mortality status of said celebrated novelists is no barrier – perhaps it’s even an incentive – to fans of the series rushing out and handing over their cash for the work featuring their favorite sleuth or spy.

In those cases, the literary estate of Ian Fleming, for instance, will have authorized the new book in return for a cut of the proceeds. But sometimes – perhaps more strangely – the originators are alive and kicking but don’t fancy another ten months in front of their laptop, and so they subcontract the work. Hence, Lee Child can still introduce his latest smash-hit Jack Reacher thriller to a hungry readership, without hiding the fact that the actual words were written by his brother Andrew. Either way, the arrangement leaves everyone content and fulfilled.

I know whereof I speak. When it was announced that the Conan Doyle literary estate had authorized me to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel, the first question I was publicly asked was whether I thought I was up to the job. After all, Holmes is a uniquely popular character, listed in the Guinness World Records as the most-portrayed human literary creation, with hundreds of films and television shows about him. But I do, as it happens, think I’m up to it. I wouldn’t have written it otherwise, would I?

Holmes and Moriarty was published in the US this past May, with near-simultaneous publication in a wide range of European countries. My literary agent, Jon, came up with the idea. He had previously published the last two authorized Holmes novels, written by Anthony Horowitz, and was therefore in touch with the Conan Doyle estate, made up of Sir Arthur’s descendants. They were interested in finding a new author to continue their ancestor’s legacy, and my previous Gothic-tinged Victorian-set mystery, The Turnglass, had been a Sunday Times bestseller, so they wanted to know what I would do with Holmes.

Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: How I wrote the newest Sherlock Holmes novel – The Spectator World

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Rod Liddle, who is calling for the murder of me and my family at Glastonbury festival, is a notorious and unrepentant domestic abuser.... and a Zionist

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"The omens are encouraging. During his Mass for the cardinals, Leo XIV produced the outline of an unambiguously Catholic manifesto in language of startling clarity."

"For one thing, the new Pope clearly loves Latin. On Sunday he led a crowd of 100,000 in St Peter’s Square in the Regina Caeli, a 12th-century antiphon to the Blessed Virgin."

#DamianThompson

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