The Spectator World

We've just gone to press with the August monthly edition of @TheSpectator. - @AdamFriedland on the pain of being an Arsenal fan - @bdomenech on the film industry's move to Texas - @MarcWarner10 on AI's potential to surpass humans - @BridgetPhetasy on dead internet theory

"Most importantly, the party elders are disillusioned with a leader who has assumed dictatorial powers but is deemed to have failed." ✍️ Francis Pike trib.al/3eAmLDa

"When Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House in May, the South African President took with him a pair of major-winning golfers, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, in the hope that it would impress Trump." ✍️ Patrick Kidd trib.al/My3g6GC

"Leaders, at the very least, must get a liberal education, for the same reason that for several centuries European elites were educated in the 'dead' languages of Latin, Greek and Hebrew. The deadness was the whole point." ✍️ Christopher Caldwell trib.al/RKAZ3Qe

"For the details, it seems, we have Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks to thank. The 28-page AI Action Plan is the fruit of his six-month effort to bring the federal government in line with Silicon Valley." From @mattjpfmcdonald trib.al/iP89HSm

"In communist days, Kyrgyzstan was a 'republic' of the Soviet Union. It retains close ties with Russia. Most people, including Alexandra, speak Russian there in their daily lives." ✍️ Charles Moore trib.al/9ksYeID

"Adams’s announcement comes after his appearance on the New York Post‘s podcast yesterday, in which he said again that almost all of Zohran’s socialist promises are unattainable." trib.al/FzVaem0

"The organ-transplant system is the perfect encapsulation of modern progressive institutions: a niche industry driven by do-gooderism, so much so that extreme moral belief in the mission leads to actual grievous harm." ✍️ Gage Klipper trib.al/EfoNvVa

"Every technological revolution threatens to render certain human capabilities obsolete – or, rather, promises to do so." ✍️ Christopher Caldwell trib.al/R2jxKrR

"Sabbath instead sold the American nightmare back to the United States, filling arenas across North America, a much bigger concert draw there than at home." ✍️ Michael Hann trib.al/Y3UBXf6

"Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for the nearest restaurant. Culture makes me hungry and there is no better place to post-mortemize the latest exhibition or concert than from a comfortable seat in a local joint." ✍️ Loyd Grossman trib.al/6x6RHon

"The administration now has the opportunity to double-down or to reverse course once again and release what it has." From @DouglasKMurray trib.al/pMD2Lcw

"There is no link between technological and moral progress. Every great human invention brings with it both opportunity and great danger." ✍️ Spectator Editorial trib.al/4iazblq

"The administration’s AI Action Plan and the three AI-related executive orders he signed at the conclusion of his remarks were designed to 'reassert the future – which belongs to America.'" From @mattjpfmcdonald trib.al/ubyfefF

"Trump appears to be in a rather conciliatory mood at the moment. While he couldn’t help but rub in the terms and conditions of the settlement, he also had some positive reflections to share." From @KateAndrs trib.al/oQpHXfe

"During the 2016 election, Trump claimed he would be too busy to play golf as president. He then squeezed in 11 rounds in his first eight weeks. This term, he was back on the course on Day 6. And again on Day 7." ✍️ Patrick Kidd trib.al/DGKH7jC

"Little Greta’s career, which started seven years ago, has been instructive in any number of ways, but mostly for the light it has shone on the nature and significance of liberal morality in the progressive 21st century." ✍️ Chilton Williamson, Jr. trib.al/LJj0j5w

"Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath did something British groups had not done before. Before them, the British Invasion groups had taken American music and sold it to the British public as the American dream, as exotica." ✍️ Michael Hann trib.al/0Sp7B2x

"Left-wing American journalists relentlessly recite the claim that immigrants are more law-abiding than locals, but the figures are fiddled." ✍️ Lionel Shriver trib.al/EQMVrNp

"It’s all very well saying superintelligence could solve humanity’s problems, but will it want to? Will it care about humanity at all? Anthropic’s raison d’être is to build a more open and more biddable AI." ✍️ Rachel Tyrell trib.al/Q7IB2lq

"I don’t write precisely like Conan Doyle. My sentence structures, my imagery, characterizations, plot preferences and experiences of London life all differ from his, not least because I’m writing a century after he died." ✍️ Gareth Rubin trib.al/RSDraea