Lara King

Editor @Spectator_Life and production editor @Spectator

[Lara King @laraking]

From today I'll be editing the brilliant @Spectator_LIFE section of the @spectator website. Pitches welcome on all things culture, food, drink, travel, style, property, money and entertainment – email in bio.

[Lara King @laraking]

@thewonder777 @InPostUK Did you get this resolved? Same thing has happened to me (parcel being taken back by InPost before the deadline)... interested to know how many customers it's happened to and whether there's a consumer story here – have they got your parcel back to you?

[Lara King @laraking]

Hi @vinted. It turns out @InPostUK came and took my parcel back at 12.27pm today when the pick-up deadline was 7.22pm... i.e. 7 hours early. But instead of fixing their error and helping get it back to me they've told me I need to get in touch with you. So, can you help?

[Lara King @laraking]

According to multiple texts and emails from @InPostUK I have until 19.22 today to collect my @vintedUK parcel, but having been to pick it up this afternoon I've been told the QR code doesn't work and there's no sign of it at the collection point. Where is it @InPostUK?

[Lara King @laraking]

@InPostUK Thank you – have DMed.

[Lara King @laraking]

According to multiple texts and emails from @InPostUK I have until 19.22 today to collect my @vintedUK parcel, but having been to pick it up this afternoon I've been told the QR code doesn't work and there's no sign of it at the collection point. Where is it @InPostUK?

[Lara King @laraking]

@james_wilk66436 @HalifaxBank Having the exact same problem – not been able to log into the app for several days, although works when I get a notification that I need to approve a payment. It's the same whether on wifi or 5G, and app is up to date. I can log on via desktop browser. Any solution @HalifaxBank?

[Freddy Gray @Freddygray31]

We have just sent our first fortnightly edition of The Spectator for the US market. And it's a gem. The cover piece, by @bdomenech, is on the military conflict that MAGA wants. It could not be more timely:

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Spectator is thrilled to announce the launch of Quite right!, the new podcast hosted by Michael Gove and Madeline Grant.

Political insight, cultural commentary and common sense arriving on Wednesday, wherever you get your podcasts.

@michaelgove @Madz_Grant

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Proud day today, after 30 years of reading the @spectator and around a decade of contributing occasionally I have my first cover. The inside story of government thinking on Iran and Israel. In the shops soon and on the website tomorrow. Subscribe here: https://t.co/Em0GZGUsda

[The Spectator @spectator]

🗞️ Porn Britannia: Louise Perry and Michael Simmons on the UK’s only growth industry

✍️ In the magazine:

🔸 James Heale: Rachel Reeves, the Iron Chancer
🔸 Sean Thomas: A lament for lads’ mags
🔸 Douglas Murray: How to ruin a city
https://t.co/iEQKq9cSUN

[The Spectator @spectator]

‘A Double-Decker responds just as well to a woman’s touch – we already have a band of lady drivers to prove it’.

✍️ Lara King
https://t.co/JbqhQM4CN1

[The Spectator @spectator]

Michael Gove: Starmerism's moral vacuum
Also in the magazine...

🔸 Lionel Shriver: Let’s start sticking up for marriage
🔸 Charles Moore: Why I support Big Benn
🔸 Flora Watkins: The age of the £5 coffee is upon us
🔸 Lawrence Osborne: The day Bangkok crumbled

[The Spectator @spectator]

The Spectator’s 2025 no-CV internship scheme is now open. We don’t ask for a CV, we don’t use your name. We don’t care where (or whether) you went to university. None of that stuff matters here. Only talent does.

Apply now. https://t.co/09mPAOelVr

[The Spectator @spectator]

Paul Wood: Power players – the age of the strongman. Also in the magazine...

🔸 Katy Balls: Labour's premier league
🔸 Rod Liddle: Why America hates us
🔸 Jonathan Miller: Bonfire of the Teslas
🔸 Mary Wakefield: The Met's misogyny

[The Spectator @spectator]

🗞️ Get real: Michael Gove on the harsh lessons of our new world disorder

✍️ Also in the mag:

• Michael Simmons: Is the state funding fanaticism?
• Douglas Murray: Keep Britain blasphemous
• Prue Leith: How to ski when you hate skiing
https://t.co/yQ8Yg3bwkP

[The Spectator @spectator]

While the borough says it’s ‘committed to encouraging residents in the transition from high polluting petrol and diesel vehicles to cleaner electric vehicles’, it’s just made it a lot more expensive to do so.

✍️ Lara King https://t.co/dMmgB5202h

[The Spectator @spectator]

🗞️ Right move: will Britain benefit from the global conservative turn?

✍️ Plus:

• Jordan Peterson: ‘I’m a new kind of Christian’
• Max Pemberton: how real is your ADHD?
• Rod Liddle: is Reform unstoppable?
• Rachel Johnson: the hell of bra shopping

https://t.co/yQ8Yg3bwkP

[Spectator Life @Spectator_LIFE]

'What to buy that combines form and function? Classics such as Noilly Prat and Cointreau. Consider Grand Marnier or a Somerset cider brandy for digestifs. Don’t stock Ciroc or Belvedere unless you want to give Marbella nightclub vibes.'

✍️ Ameer Kotecha

https://t.co/Qlz59bA7ta

[The Spectator @spectator]

'Well, I say it's time to put the cheer back. Eat, drink and be merry until 6 January – and beyond.'

✍️ Melanie McDonagh https://t.co/gxOPKnQ1SJ

[Kate Andrews @KateAndrs]

What @Spectator writers read in 2024

https://t.co/bBBr3EOOTh

[The Spectator @spectator]

Who dares sins: The great betrayal of the SAS.

🔸 Fraser Nelson: the sickness benefit trap
🔸 Boris Johnson: ‘I was much more disposable than I believed’
🔸 J.J. Charlesworth: who broke the Tate?