Yet, his work has been called a " hoax " and " discredited " by conservatives like Ann Coulter, it was also disputed by the American Spectator, which caused Scaife to end his funding of the Arkansas Project with the publisher.

Ology has been cited by The American Spectator, The Austin Chronicle, and MTV News. In April 2012, Geek Sugar highlighted Ology for its " hilarious, tongue-in-cheek news stories, viral videos, and trends ," and Business Insider featured the website in December for its commercial potential as a social media website.

Editorship of The Spectator has often been part of a route to high office in the Conservative Party in the UK ; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet minister or a springboard for a greater role in public affairs, as with Boris Johnson ( 1999 to 2005 ), the Conservative Mayor of London.

Townsend ’ s writing in The Spectator confirmed him as one of the finest journalists of his day, and he has since been called " the greatest leader writer ever to appear in the English Press.

Gilmour famously lent The Spectator ’ s voice to the campaign to end capital punishment in Britain, writing an incensed leader attacking the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955, in which he claimed " Hanging has become the national sport ", and that the home secretary Gwilym Lloyd George, for not reprieving the sentence, " has now been responsible for the hanging of two women over the past eight months ".

On the announcement of his departure, Andrew Neil, The Spectator CEO, said: " Boris has been a wonderful and magnificent editor of The Spectator and we are sorry to lose him ; in many ways he will be irreplaceable … leaves the magazine in better shape than it has ever been in its long and glorious history, both editorially and financially … The editorial breadth and quality under his editorship has been unrivalled.

Although there is a permanent staff of writers, The Spectator has always had room for a wide array of contributors.

: Cryptics in the weekly Spectator often have a specific theme, such as a tribute to a public figure who has died recently or a historic event that has its anniversary this week.

He has served on the board of directors of American Spectator magazine.

Keene has been the chess correspondent of The Times since 1985, following the retirement of Harry Golombek, and has written a column for The Spectator since 12 March 1977.

Short has written chess columns and book reviews for the British newspapers The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail and The Spectator.

From its inception, Cigar Aficionado has made use of blind taste testing of cigars, comparing the merits of one brand to another, expressed on the basis of a 100 point scale such as that successfully used in sister publication Wine Spectator.

Wine Spectator has reported that such California wineries as Pillar Rock Vineyard, Beaulieu Vineyard, E & J Gallo Winery and Chateau Montelena have had trouble with Systemic TCA.

High altitude Mendoza has attracted many notable foreign winemakers such as Paul Hobbs, Michel Rolland, Roberto Cipresso and Alberto Antonini, and today, there are several Malbecs from the region scoring over 95 points in the Wine Spectator and Robert Parker ’ s The Wine Advocate.

He has since published A Conga Line of Suckholes, a regular column in the Australian Financial Review and Spectator Australia and an essay for The Monthly.

Kitchener has also won the J. Ross Robertson Cup four times, won the Hamilton Spectator Trophy seven times, and have won seven division titles.

Drive Clean's emissions test results have been shown to be unreliable in surveys carried out by the media such as in-depth work done by the Hamilton Spectator, The Fraser Institute, and consumer advocacy groups such as the Automobile Protection Association.

One conservative magazine, The American Spectator, offered a dissenting view, writing, " er account of the " politics of disgust " lacks coherence, and " the politics of humanity " betrays itself by not treating more sympathetically those opposed to the gay rights movement.

My feelings is that we should .” Manningham-Buller suggested prosecuting “ the proprietors of The Spectator, the editor and Mr Bernard Levin ” once the Chatterley trial itself was over.

On the other hand, one of his mutton pies known as a " Kit-Kat ", always formed a standing dish at meetings of the club and the pie is thus itself sometimes regarded ( e. g., by Addison in the Spectator ) as the origin of the club's name.

Although The Spectator declares itself to be politically neutral, it was widely recognised as promoting Whig values and interests.

In 1861 The Spectator was bought by a journalist, Meredith Townsend, who soon went into partnership with Richard Holt Hutton, a theologian whose friend William Gladstone later called ‘ the first critic of the nineteenth century ’.

His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend, Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.

12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729 ) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

In 1713 he and his friend John Hughes began a periodical modelled on The Spectator entitled The Lay Monk.

In his Spectator column, Johnson defended his friend Jonathan Aitken, has expressed qualified admiration for General Franco, and expressed admiration for General Augusto Pinochet.

He received a BA from Columbia University in 1934, after which he succeeded his friend, Arthur Lelyveld, as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Daily Spectator.

In his capacity as editor of The Spectator he conducted, in June 1990, an interview with the cabinet minister Nicholas Ridley in which Ridley expressed opinions immensely hostile to Germany and the European Community, likening the initiatives of Jacques Delors and others to those of Hitler.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

In one of the Wimsey Papers, a series of fictionalised commentaries in the form of mock letters between members of the Wimsey family published in the Spectator, there is a reference to Harriet's difficulty in continuing to write murder mysteries at a time when European dictators were openly committing mass murders with impunity ; this seems to have reflected Sayers ' own wartime feeling.

She is a regular commentator on the Australia business news website Business Spectator.

O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator.

The Spectator is a weekly British conservative magazine first published on 6 July 1828.

A statuette presented in gratitude to The Spectator, of an Aberdare miner, still sits in the editor ’ s office, bearing the inscription: " From the Townsfolk of Aberdare in Grateful Recognition: ' The Greatest of These is Love '".

The Spectator ’ s current editor is Fraser Nelson, who replaced d ’ Ancona in August 2009.

Like its sister publication The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator is generally Atlanticist and Eurosceptic in outlook, favouring close ties with the United States rather than with the European Union, and supportive of Israel.

The Spectator is one of the few British publications that still ignores or dismisses most examples of popular culture, in the way that ( for example ) The Daily Telegraph did under Bill Deedes, or The Times did under William Haley.

As in most British periodicals, the cryptic in the Spectator is numbered: in the Spectators case, a puzzle's theme may be related to its specific number ( such as a historic event that occurred in the year corresponding to the four-digit number of the puzzle for that week ).

" In 2002, Hobsbawm was described by right-leaning magazine The Spectator as " arguably our greatest living historian — not only Britain's, but the world's ", while Niall Ferguson wrote: " That Hobsbawm is one of the great historians of his generation is undeniable.

George Neumayr, the executive editor of The American Spectator, a conservative magazine, told the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer that " PBS looks like a liberal monopoly to me, and Bill Moyers is Exhibit A of that very strident left-wing bias ... uses his show as a platform from which to attack conservatives and Republicans.

* March 1-The Spectator is founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.

* October 12-The Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal is founded by Daniel Defoe and Henry Baker.

* April-The Female Spectator, a monthly periodical, is founded by Eliza Haywood.

An account of the first floating of the tubes of the bridge is recorded in The Spectator of 23 June 1849, which was Grove's first appearance in print.

In 2011, following the term's offhand use in a March 26 article appearing in The Spectator (" white-coated Jap bloke "), the Minister of the Japanese Embassy in London protested that " most Japanese people find the word ‘ Jap ’ offensive, irrespective of the circumstances in which it is used.