The twilight of Boomer Republicanism
Behold, Western Australia’s march toward a Chinese-style surveillance state
Is anyone else concerned about the direction our once laid-back, freedom-loving nation is headed? Thanks to serious errors in government…
The end is nigh
Communists are marching on Paris. Weekend after weekend. Traipsing the wreckage of civilisation with them. Smashing. Stealing. Revelling in the…
Lord of the sock puppets
Anthony Albanese has joined the Unplug24 campaign, announcing on X: The movement is in honour of Mac Holdsworth who, to…
Penny Wong vs Ralph Babet
United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet has a knack for getting under Labor’s skin and this week, he succeeded in…
Angry duck Trump or the West’s goose is cooked
The midterm elections in the US prove one thing: the majority of American voters are useful idiots. The final two…
Canberra needs an expiry date
‘Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.’ The line is routinely attributed to Mark Twain.…
Midterm mayhem
The midterm elections in USA have delivered a shellacking to the Republicans and their policies. This was not confined to…
Trump’s midterms wipeout just handed the West a brutal setback
Where to now for the battle to save the West? Not that Trump was ever the messiah, but his MAGA…
Should Parliament take back control of interest rates?
With the RBA delivering yet another interest rate rise this week and making life even more uncomfortable for those with…
The fountain of the little snouts
The Boboli Gardens surround the Pitti Palace in Florence, built in 1458 for banker Luca Pitti. It later became the…
Bring back Aussie expats, hit the brakes on mass migration
The federal government’s approach to attracting skilled workers from overseas should prioritise bringing home Australians living abroad rather than being…
Labor promised an easier life. Four years on, we are paying the price
In May 2022, Anthony Albanese stood before Labor supporters at his election campaign launch in Perth and promised Australians a…
Point of Law a modern-day Phar Lap for Albo’s Great Depression
Today’s Melbourne Cup had me in tears. It’s been a long day. I drive the truck tonight so I woke…
Why would the Palestinian Authority change?
Anyone wondering why Australia is confronting an antisemitism crisis should pay close attention to a revealing exchange between Senator James…
Australia has spent billions teaching kids to hate democracy
The McKinnon Index was released November 3, 2026. If you still had any faith left in the people running Australia’s…
Great Australian success stories
We are not a ‘precious stone set in the silver sea … this blessed plot, this Earth, this realm…’ We…
Student protesters resent getting what they demanded
Mass student and Gen Z-led protests over school conditions, housing costs, education funding, and the cost of living have swept…
The Chalmers Curve
Economics has the Phillips Curve, the Laffer Curve, and Okun’s Law. All three of which are currently relevant to our…
Who left whom?
In May 2025, the Liberal Party won 43 per cent of the primary vote in Farrer, the New South Wales…
Too many microphones, not enough minds
Australians of my generation were politically spoiled, though it didn’t feel like it at the time. We grew up with…
OH NO, NOT BLUEY! – Labor has started a war against speech and satire | S3 Ep 26
In this episode: Is BLUEY ground zero for the war against satire? Victoria – the reddest state – is about…
TURN THE POLITICAL TEMPERATURE DOWN… WHO TURNED IT UP?! – Labor’s outrageous hypocrisy | S3 Ep 25
In this episode: Macron’s ‘soft touch’ on far-left riot agitators. Italy’s Giorgia Meloni vows swift justice against looters. Labor’s inter-generational…
CHAMPAGNE SOCIALISM BURNS FRENCH CULTURE – and Australia’s descent into censorship | S3 Ep 24
In this episode: Far-left riots bring France to its knees while President Macron attends #CelineDion concert. Australia’s Royal Commission into…
Yobbos of the manosphere
Yet again, Australians have been made fools of by a supposedly independent commission that we never elected, that we pay…
Oink! Oink!
Picture the scene. Jack is having a can of Balter beer; Jill is having an Aperol spritz. They are sitting…
Primed for Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a ‘single source of truth’ formerly in possession of a left-wing Kiwi prime…
Irate rise that stopped the nation
On this year’s Melbourne Cup Day, it wasn’t the race, but the rate rise that stopped the nation. It was…
Live not by lies
On 12 February 1974, eight Soviet government officials arrested Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn at his Moscow apartment. By evening, he had been…
France is on fire. And that’s just its economy
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leading figure of the far-left France Unbowed party, is polling well enough in his fourth presidential bid…
Albo’s road to serfdom
Last week in London’s West End I saw The Standard of Living, James Graham’s play about the life of John…
Time to restore Aussies’ original intention
Australians are right. Regular polling confirms a consistent majority believe the country is ‘on the wrong track’. At most, 30…
Stuffed
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV, is said to have described the art of taxation as plucking the goose…
Pope Leo the Apostate?
Writing in the Telegraph on the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new Pope Leo XIV, Tim Stanley had…
Hot air con
It would appear that the federal Labor government has been taking lessons from its favourite bureaucrats and serving up questionable…
Jimbo is toast
Jimbo is toast: it’s the scientific consensus. His term as Treasurer of this country must end as soon as possible.…
If we pay reparations, they’ll only come back for more
‘Danegeld’. Such an ugly word, don’t you think? So, what should we call it instead? Reparations, or Project Spire perhaps?…
The spectre of anarchism is haunting Europe
Mass student protests in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Greece and Albania, looted shops, burning cars, the destruction of a historic…
The era of ‘Life after Trump’ has dawned
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spent much of yesterday denying reports that he plans to resign to run for…
The Coalition of the Willing finally has a chance to prove itself
Next week marks a major milestone for the Coalition of the Willing. Starting on Monday, its military arm, the Multinational…
PPT and the power of shame
‘The only reason they would not be fatal,’ said the barrister Sara Mansoori KC, ‘is because the claimant would be…
Reform’s fightback has begun
Nigel Farage set out this afternoon to show that Reform is still up for the fight – and has learnt…
Can Britain afford to take its supermarket fridges offline?
In October, tens of millions of euros worth of food in French supermarkets was spoiled after hackers took control of…
The welcome downfall of Russell Brand
It is the verdict that countless people have been hoping for. The most deserving, of course, are the women who…
Russell Brand didn’t even have to hide in plain sight
When Jimmy Savile was posthumously unmasked as a prolific sex offender it was often said that he had been hiding…
‘The Spectator is always right’
Well, the midterms are over, and the elections were indeed disastrous for Donald Trump’s Republican party. Commentators are now queuing…
Transgender sports and foie gras: six interesting ballot initiatives
Amid yesterday’s blue deluge, a number of interesting ballot initiatives – a citizen-initiated referendum on a particular measure – were…
The Bank of England is taking inflation seriously again
Fears of resurgent inflation have finally caught up with the rate-setters of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC).…
New Zealand election musings
By the time you read this, the New Zealand election will be about a week away. Now I’d like to…
Why you shouldn’t shrug at New Zealand’s greyhound racing ban
Greyhound racing ended in New Zealand on August 1. Those who neither own a greyhound nor care for the sport…
A New Zealand republic in Jacinda Ardern’s lifetime?
New Zealand’s former Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, believes the nation will become a republic within her lifetime. We have heard…
The row over English becoming an official language of New Zealand
Parliamentarians in New Zealand have been limbering up for an oddly unedifying debate over what ought to be the most…
Revolting France: The riots are driving the country’s politics to its extremes
A patina of majesty
Patrick Stewart, the man who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and then went on to…
An urge to take over the play
It’s astonishing what awaits the culture vulture. A lot of people know the riches on offer when they see the…
The beauty of the ruthless truth
There are times when the screen, big or small, looks like a gift of the gods. In the last week…
Conflicting colours and tones of tragedy
Any fan of Gerald Murnane would love to see him win the Nobel Prize for Literature. And if it’s never…
Saved by the Yanks
A startling new book thanks the United States for saving Australia from invasion in the second world war. Dr Tom…
The hypocrisy of Frank Capra’s populism
Frank Capra’s pictures about the ‘little man’ vs the system went over so big that he was the first Hollywood…
Haunted by the ghost of Sherlock Holmes
When Sherlock Holmes first stalked across the pages of London periodicals in 1887, journalists eagerly asked Arthur Conan Doyle ‘how…
Under deep cover: The Taper Man, by Nick Harkaway, reviewed
Writers who have famous authors for parents might view it as an inhibiting burden, but Nick Harkaway, the son of…
From bog moss to orchids – the thrilling history of plant evolution
On the night of 1 March 1943, RAF Bomber Command launched its heaviest raid of the war so far. More…
Animal magic: a choice of children’s books
Toby Alone by Timothée de Fombelle begins: ‘Toby was just one and a half millimetres tall, not exactly big for…
College scandals: Lords of Serendipity, by Randy Boyagoda, reviewed
Randy Boyagoda has buried the campus novel in its grave. The setting of Lords of Serendipity is not the ‘city…
Sylvester Stallone’s own rags-to-riches story
If you think that Rocky is the greatest movie ever made, and Sly Stallone the finest actor, you will love…