Does Daniel Andrews have new bars on free speech coming?
Why we need a manufacturing sector
Since the year 2000 something has gone wrong in Australia. As it happens, this was two years after the old…
EXPOSED: The Chinese Communist Party and Australia’s universities
“In my opinion, it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery”…
You can’t truly love the planet unless you kill like Ghengis Khan
I will be honest, I double-checked the date when I saw an article from the Guardian titled, ‘Why Genghis Khan…
Does Daniel Andrews have new bars on free speech coming?
In 2018 a Scottish comedian was convicted of a hate crime after filming his girlfriend’s pug performing the Nazi salute…
Spectator Australia TV: The left are miserable and want to make us miserable
The left are miserable and want to make us miserable. Wokeism is the next airborne disease we should all be…
What’s woke this weekend?
We have our finger on the pulse of wokism here at The Spectator Australia and this week we’ll answer some…
Peacock feathers
Spectator readers are a civilised lot, and no doubt their mothers told them “If you don’t have anything nice to…
Sailors and half-clad women? No! Whoever would have thought of it?
To twerk or not to twerk? That is the question. I wonder what the Bard would think? Australia has its…
What the withdrawal from Afghanistan says about us
When the Secretary General of Nato announced last week that all alliance troops were to be withdrawn from Afghanistan, it…
British pubs have been pushed to the brink
A long time ago, a seasoned old hack gave me some wise words of advice: never to trust anyone who…
The notorious MTG
As I walk toward Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office, I notice a large flag and sign opposing one another across the…
Need we fear a third wave after lockdown ends?
When Boris Johnson revealed his roadmap out of lockdown at the end of February he promised a ‘one way road…
Professional sports are the wokest of them all
Campaign contributions are public information in the United States. So they know that political journalists lean Democrat massively, double figures…
Democracy dies when the media lies
Non-Americans have been aware for some time of the biases of the major US media on foreign policy, from the…
Business/Robbery, etc.
As the old Flanders and Swann British climate ditty goes: ‘April brings the sweet spring showers – on and on…
Thank God for the butcher, the brewer and the baker
It’s one of the most famous quotes in economics, written by Scottish moral philosopher, Adam Smith, over two and half…
Dangerous liaisons
‘I thought you gave up flirting with the servants ages ago,’ Prince Philip reportedly told his former daughter-in-law Sarah, Duchess…
Larrikindred spirit
The Duke of Edinburgh, who last week sadly passed away at the age of 99, is only now finally getting…
Dear Comrade Jacinda
There she goes, New Zealand’s Wonder Woman, striking a model’s pose on the cover of yet another women’s magazine, Thrive,…
Farewell heroic prince
We owe them, our dear Queen Elizabeth and the late Prince Philip, a debt greater than they would ever claim…
Berlin
Theatre is slowly, tentatively opening up again and there’s no denying that a good play with however small a cast…
She-Oak and Sunlight: Australian Impressionism
Art movements and fashions may come and go but Australians love of their impressionists seems only to grow stronger. The…
A Murder of Crows
Sometimes a crime show on TV turns into something higher and better, a transfigured thing. The Victim, from Scotland, falls…
Opera on the Harbour: La Traviata
These days, you’d need to be as game as Ned Kelly to run an opera company. It’s a chancy enough…
A whale of a time with Albrecht Dürer
Great books make genres jump. It happened with W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, which looked like a travelogue, claimed…
An unsuitable attachment to Nazism: Barbara Pym in the 1930s
Novelists’ careers take different paths, and sometimes don’t look much like careers at all. It’s true that some start publishing…
Yuri Gagarin – poster boy of manned space flight
To an observant outsider, the Soviets might have appeared to have developed an oddly intolerant attitude towards stray dogs. Every…
Shock tactics: the flamboyant life of a Hanoverian maid of honour
At the masquerade celebrating the end of the War of Austrian Succession no one could take their eyes off the…
The home life of Shirley Jackson, queen of horror
‘One of the nicest things about being a writer,’ Shirley Jackson once noted in a lecture titled ‘How I Write’,…
Dark days for Britain: London, Burning, by Anthony Quinn, reviewed
Not long ago, a group of psychologists analysing data about national happiness discovered that the British were at their unhappiest…
Spectacular invective: Jonathan Meades lets rip about Boris and Brexit
The title alludes to Jonathan Meades’s first collection of criticism, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, and to the album by…
Ghosts of the past: The Field, by Robert Seethaler, reviewed
Give dead bones a voice and they speak volumes: George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo was clamorous with the departed…