In pictures: The Spectator’s hard-hat party

“SPECS, drugs and rock ’n’ roll!” reported the New York Post’s Page Six about The Spectator’s bash on Tuesday to toast our new NoMad office. Some 150 revelers ascended to our unfinished, unfurnished penthouse digs, where they were served cocktails and spectacular sunset views from our terrace facing the Empire State Building. 

Music played as guests bounced between the multiple bars. “You guys shouldn’t touch anything, it’s perfect!” said pretty much everyone I spoke to about our bold office renovation plans, while dodging ceiling wires and donning Spectator-branded hard hats (which a few lucky revelers went home with). One literary lady was overheard making plans to “try it on later with some lingerie for my husband.”

Exciting times here at The Spectator. We have just doubled our print output from 12 to 24 issues annually and are enlarging our New York and DC operations in preparation for increased staffing and event programming, living up to our reputation – thank you to the New York Times – as “a very serious professional operation pretending to be a bunch of champagne dilettantes.”

Our crowd, the last of which spilled out past 11 p.m., was a who’s-who of the city’s political and cultural spheres, including: Abigail Asher, Jackson Scott, Ann Coulter, Keeley Hazell, Alessandra Ford Balazs, Christian Lorentzen, Adrian Dannatt, Diane Cole, John R. MacArthur of Harper’s, Caroline Calloway, Feed Me’s Cami Fateh, Taki Theodoracopulos, Raheem Kassam, Jonathan Becker, Christopher Brooks, Red Scare podcaster Anna Khachiyan, the Times of London’s Katy Balls, the New York Post’s Keith Poole and Oliver Coleman, the New Criterion’s Benjamin Riley and Roger Kimball, Gentleman’s Journal’s Joseph Bullmore and Harry Jarman, Breaker Media’s Lachlan Cartwright, Air Mail’s Elena Clavarino and Harrison Vail and The Spectator’s own Freddie Sayers, Freddy Gray, Zack Christenson, Kate Andrews, Ben Domenech, Lionel Shriver, Roger Kimball, Neal Pollack, Lara Prendergast, Ben Clerkin, Luke Lyman and Matt McDonald.