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The UK is on fire. Australia could be next

The United Kingdom is on fire with riots breaking out across the country, and it brings me no joy to…

8 Aug 2024

When Hanlon’s razor fails

Last month Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointed Jewish lawyer and businesswoman Jillian Segal as Australia’s first antisemitism special envoy. While…

8 Aug 2024

Terror threat on the rise

Prime Minister Albanese and ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess raised the terror threat level from possible to probable. They urged the…

8 Aug 2024

Perrottet’s Covid apology is not good enough

Former New South Wales Premier, Dominic Perrottet, came out yesterday and declared that Covid vaccine mandates enforced by his government…

7 Aug 2024

Do women vote for women, and do Cat Ladies vote for Mamalas?

The US Democrats have made a high-stakes bet on securing the female vote by choosing Kamala Harris as their candidate.…

7 Aug 2024

Russia’s national disease can be cured by defeat

As Russia’s barbarism toward Ukrainians has deepened over the last two and half years, there has been much discussion of…

7 Aug 2024

Breach of trust

At some stage in our lives, many of us are called on to accept the often thankless and onerous obligations…

7 Aug 2024

Starmer presides over the collapse of neo-Marxism

Labour in the United Kingdom are presiding over the potential dissolution of civil peace. Instead of deescalating tensions, Keir Starmer…

7 Aug 2024

The end of race politics

Review: Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024 The topic…

6 Aug 2024

Another climate myth busted

What I like to call ‘climate cult’ wind farms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels for power…

Are Labor voters enjoying the boxing?

Dear Australia, If you continue to cast your votes for Labor, and will no doubt persist in doing so in…

6 Aug 2024

After 30 days of Labour, I want the Conservatives back

One month in, and our new Labour government has already made a complete hash of it. The UK has descended…

6 Aug 2024

Albanese’s dangerous scheme exposed

Constitution circumvented

10 Aug 2024

Pathway to terror?

Immigration versus the raised terror alerts

10 Aug 2024

Punch Judy

The Olympics’ low blow to boxing

10 Aug 2024

Macron’s gift to Le Pen

Olympics opening ceremony fiasco again shows his shocking judgment

10 Aug 2024

Assistant Minister for a Banana Republic

Albanese is destroying the Australian economy

10 Aug 2024

How Covid broke our trust in the medical profession

On 9 July, President Joe Biden’s former Covid czar Ashish Jha conceded that vaccine mandates, which he had backed, ‘bred…

10 Aug 2024

The cancerous CFMEU

Claims by senior Labor figures that allegations of CFMEU thuggery and intimidation were revelations to them were seriously undermined this…

10 Aug 2024

B2 eyes the top job

Tony Burke moves onwards and upwards

10 Aug 2024

Europe is worried that Britain’s riots might spread

The riots that have erupted across England in the last week have been splashed across Europe’s newspapers and broadcast on…

7 Aug 2024

Are the riots about to get worse?

When will the violent disorder across England and Northern Ireland dissipate? That’s the question being asked in Westminster as ministers…

7 Aug 2024

Scottish Tory leadership race: runners and riders

While contenders in the UK Tory leadership race ramp up their campaigns, north of the border the Scottish Conservative contest…

7 Aug 2024

Britain’s rioters have acted like Bolsheviks

British riots are not a new phenomenon. They were regular occurrences throughout history and usually the spark that lit the…

7 Aug 2024

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Kiwi life

New Zealand in crisis Given the destruction the previous Labour government inflicted on this country, and the damage caused by…

29 Jun 2024

New Zealand’s carbon sequestration problem

Ongoing concern about climate change has fuelled debate about the part carbon sequestration might play in reducing New Zealand’s net…

19 Jun 2024

Why New Zealand is cracking down on immigration

The government of New Zealand this week tightened the country’s working visa rules in order to stem historically high numbers…

10 Apr 2024

Why is New Zealand’s deputy PM rowing with Chumbawamba?

In their musical heyday, the English anarchist punk band Chumbawamba enjoyed a reputation for having an irreverent attitude towards those…

22 Mar 2024

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Language

A Speccie reader has been in touch to complain about the use of the expressions ‘wind farm’ and ‘solar farm’.…

10 Aug 2024

Aussie life

Off the beach of Ipanema where the tall and tanned girls go, they’ve found Brazilian sharks with cocaine in their…

10 Aug 2024

Aussie life

Imagine if, instead of returning to the USA to become its third president, Thomas Jefferson had died in France on…

3 Aug 2024

Language

A fellow Speccie writer asked me about what he called the ‘absurd equivalence’ being drawn between ‘anti-Semitism’ and ‘Islamophobia’. He…

3 Aug 2024

How the myth of Paris liberating itself was born

The liberation of Paris in August 1944, two months after D-Day, was one of the most highly publicised victories of…

3 Aug 2024

Malice and intrigue in the shadow of Tom Tower

‘The House’ in the title of Richard Davenport-Hines’s engaging new book is Christ Church, by any reckoning the grandest of…

3 Aug 2024

Portrait of the artist and mother

On reaching the end of Hettie Judah’s Acts of Creation, I felt somewhat overwhelmed. At 272 pages, the book isn’t…

3 Aug 2024

A miracle beckons: Phantom Limb, by Chris Kohler, reviewed

In 2021, a financial newspaper estimated the American televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s wealth to be in the region of $750 million.…

3 Aug 2024

After the Flood: There Are Rivers in the Sky, by Elif Shafak, reviewed

A drop of water falls on the head of Ashur-banal, the erudite but merciless king of Assyria, as he walks…

3 Aug 2024

Love it or loathe it – the umami flavour of anchovy

We are blessed to be living in a golden age of anchovies. They’re everywhere – lacing salads, festooning pizzas, draped…

3 Aug 2024

A haunting theme: The Echoes, by Evie Wyld, reviewed

Evie Wyld’s powerful fourth novel opens from the perspective of Max, a ghost who haunts the south London flat where…

3 Aug 2024

Absinthe and the casual fling: Ex-Wife, by Ursula Parrott, reviewed

‘Ex-wives like us illustrate how this freedom for women turned out to be God’s greatest gift to men,’ quips Patricia,…

3 Aug 2024