Why Lukashenko keeps getting away with it
The diversion of a Ryanair flight bound for Lithuania from Athens and the arrest of passenger Roman Protasevich – an…
Superannuation: taxed to death
The superannuation guarantee requirement is set to increase from 9.5 per cent of a worker’s income to 10 per cent…
Why Beijing doesn’t think the EU investment deal is dead
Is the EU-China investment deal dead? It was last week sunk down by 599 votes to 30 in the European…
Tala Halawa and the progressive media’s anti-Semitism blindspot
The tale of Tala Halawa has an ever-mounting horror to it: each sentence is more disturbing than the last. First…
Covid sufferers aren’t the only victims of the pandemic
Covid deaths are down to a trickle, but what about the indirect consequences of the pandemic: deaths that come from…
Why is a Jewish lecturer being investigated for mocking Corbyn?
It’s a tale worthy of Kafka. Dr Pete Newbon, a lecturer in humanities at Northumbria University, is being investigated by…
In praise of the Batley binmen
If you need someone to support your right to freedom of speech, forget the teaching unions. Don’t look to the…
BMI, beetles, and beauty: what the body positivity movement gets right and wrong
Recently, I read two books of the same name but with very different content. The first was Beauty by Bri…
What will Cummings say?
As the government puts the final touches to its social distancing review and Foreign Office ministers ponder the best response…
Winning the war on woke in the armed forces
The American military is increasingly facing future armed with the attitude “If we’re going to lose a major war, at least…
What does the future hold for Malcolm Turnbull?
The Spectator Australia has been spelling out a simple truth for many years now: Malcolm Turnbull simply isn’t very good…
Just what does Scott Morrison stand for?
The term ‘liberal’ is confusing. In the United States it means a progressive, in Europe more of a classical liberal,…
Do women really want longer working hours?
Parents of small children are all too familiar with the competing demands of family, child care and work. Each family…
BBC journalist: ‘Hitler was right’
It has not been a happy week for the BBC. The corporation has spent the last four days grappling with…
How the BBC can save itself
All those esteemed generals of hindsight screeching ‘more governance’ as the cure to BBC’s cover-up of the Martin Bashir’s dishonesty…
Is it time to phase out the AstraZeneca vaccine?
We still await good data on the transmissibility of the Indian variants of Sars-CoV-2, something the government insists is vital…
Martin Bashir and the BBC’s line of duty
As fans of the BBC hit show Line of Duty know very well the ‘one rotten apple’ explanation for police…
Scotland’s next constitutional fight won’t be over a referendum
Get ready for a constitutional rammy during the first half of this, the sixth session of the Scottish parliament. Just…
Upper Hunter: Malcolm loses. Again
Pro-tip. If you’re going to back an independent candidate, perhaps don’t do it when there are 12 other people lining…
Spectator Australia TV: Terror apologists in the West
This week on SpecOz TV and Counter Culture, Dr David Adler joins us with the real story of what is…
Daniel Andrews’ budget belts business already caught by Covid
“There have been some big winners from the pandemic – and after a year defined by widespread sacrifice, it’s only…
The Capitol ‘armed insurrection’ narrative is crumbling
Will January 6 go down as another ‘day of infamy,’ an assault against America akin in its seriousness to December…
A nuclear crisis is closer than you think
It has long been widely accepted as orthodoxy that the world was saved from nuclear war during the Cuban Missile…
Pro-choice activists shouldn’t celebrate Roe v Wade
A striking curiosity of American life is that the names of legal cases can insinuate themselves into everyday dialogue. None…
Hamas doesn’t want a Palestinian state
Do Hamas’s supporters in the West know what this organisation really stands for? The reality is that Hamas is no…
