The 27-year-old from Košice took cocaine that was unknowingly laced with fentanyl.

https://spectator.sme.sk/politics-and-society/c/slovak-father-warns-students-after-son-dies-from-fentanyl-tainted-cocaine-in-florida

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A different view of the High Tatras, and an unusual fashion exhibition. Here's what to do during the weekend of January 12-14.

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23266310/weekend-let-the-season-of-balls-begin.html

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Great TV shows have a knack for immortalising their locations. Think what Fargo did for the otherwise unloved Dakotas, or Vince Gilligan turning New Mexico into the heart of the 21st century's greatest neo-Western with Breaking Bad. While the Duffer Brothers' Stranger Things might have secured its place on the podium of brilliant box-sets, could it also inspire your next US getaway?Admittedly, a show revolving around a terrifying alternate dimension might not seem a natural candidate for inspiring wanderlust.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-stranger-things-inspire-your-next-american-getaway-

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‘I think I might be transgender!' How should schools react to such revelations? By the time they find out, the child may already be convinced that their identity lies on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Probably with its own multi-coloured flag.But while social media influencers are quick to dispense answers, schools are left to cope with the consequences, with little understanding of what is really going on.Stonewall and Mermaids — large publicly funded LGBT+ charities — would have us believe that we all have an innate gender identity that determines whether we are men or women, or perhaps neither.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-confused-language-of-gender-identity-ideology

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You may not have caught it amidst other international developments, but the United States bombed Somalia last Friday. No, that isn't a misprint.On June 3, the Somali government announced that the US had conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab militants west of the southern port city of Kismayo, killing approximately five fighters. The Pentagon has yet to release any information about the strike, a concerning (but not surprising) display of nonchalance.The latest strike came as President Biden reversed his predecessor's decision to withdraw all US troops from Somalia.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-america-bombing-somalia-again-

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We're closing the year by republishing our ten most popular articles in 2021. Here's number four: Zoe Strimpel writing in February about how popular portrayals of the past are being changed to fit the present. The first thing you notice about Bridgerton, Netflix's big winter blockbuster set in Regency England, is how bad it is: an expensive assemblage of clichés that smacks of the American's-eye view of Britain's aristocratic past. The dialogue is execrable, the ladies' pouts infuriating. But bad things can be good, especially when it comes to sexy period romps.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/most-read-2021-the-netflix-generation-has-lost-its-grip-on-history

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I hadn't thought about Cash's name tapes for many years. My mother used to sew them into clothes I planned to take to school. Occasionally I find one in a sock or a threadbare T-shirt and feel wistful for the years past. My name tapes were white, with a navy, serif typeface.The other day, I discovered a pair of tights in the bottom of a drawer which belonged (or perhaps still belong) to my school friend Alice. Her name tapes were woven in green, with a sans serif typeface that looked like the Johnston one used on the London Underground.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-enduring-appeal-of-school-name-tapes

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In 1966 we were 17 and about to do A-levels and leave our convent school for ever at the end of that summer term. Two girls were having a lesbian affair, another had been tempted to sleep with a boy, dramatically confessing this to our head nun, Mother Benedicta, in Mother B's terrifying private room halfway up the staircase. Our head girl, Vanessa, had an older sister who would roar down to the school on the back of her boyfriend's motorbike along with his friends, known as ‘leather boys'. Vanessa was worried about her sister living in sin.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/school-trip-my-dejeuner-sur-lherbe

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O2 Academy Brixton, and touring, until 19 JuneAt the turn of this century, looking back on the late 1980s when the Pet Shop Boys could do no wrong and everything they touched turned to platinum, Neil Tennant coined the concept of a musician's ‘imperial phase'. You can be hugely popular at other times in your career – you can sell just as many records – but the imperial phase is something different. The imperial phase is when an artist isn't just selling records; it's when approval of them has reached such a pitch that they can do no wrong.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/harry-styles-has-entered-his-imperial-phase-but-his-music-still-has-no-distinct-identity

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We were allowed one phone call, faint and crackling along the many miles of copper wire which connected Hampshire with Dartmoor. In those days (this was the early 1960s) the operator had to connect it. I had watched those wires, swooping alongside the train which had borne me all that way, wisps of smoke and steam drifting past the window. Now, with the September evening coming on, there was time for a few stilted words in the headmaster's study with my parents. It would in many ways have been better not to bother, as it only emphasised the distance and the separation.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/no-screens-shared-bathwater-and-ugly-food-my-life-in-a-1960s-prep-school

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