The Left’s bad joke
After the atrocity comes the inevitable blame game. Hardly waiting to draw breath, Wajahat Ali leapt into print in the…
Venice diary
The Biennale The Venice Biennale has been a rite of every second spring since 1895. The oldest biennial art fair…
Laughing gas
The latest lunatic government intervention into Australian energy markets conjures up the old lady who swallowed a fly. In 2001,…
What, no Nobel Peace Prize?
Trump’s first 100 days: A big failure and a new low in the polls, blasted the Washington Post in March,…
The sinister sharia sisterhood
‘Ayaan Hirsi (is) asking 4 an a$$ whippin’. I wish I could take (her) vagina away – (she doesn’t) deserve…
Bill and the Lilliputians
The death of great men illuminate the darkness like lightning on a stormy night. So it is with Bill Leak,…
La la Libs
The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…
La la Libs
The commentariat are almost unanimous that Tony Abbott should not have launched our book Making Australia Right: Where to From…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
The Dictator delusion
It was a warm tropical night in 1995 and Fidel Castro was playing the waiting game with Gareth Evans. The…
Boom time
The government claims it had a good week last week, increasing taxes on savings, raising effective marginal tax rates on…
We’re all gamblers now
We are a nation of gamblers. We wager more per capita than any other country on earth. But it is…
For Scott’s Eyes Only
Three cheers for the government for saving us from the Yellow Investment Peril. If it weren’t for Treasurer Scott Morrison,…
World Vision’s blind spot
‘I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here,’ said Captain Louis Renault as he collected his…
Restraining Kevin
If a diplomat, as Winston Churchill once said, is a person who can tell you to go to hell in…
Slaying sacred cows
It is a measure of Andrew Bolt’s ignominy that it takes a certain courage simply to walk into Dymock’s and…
Australian notes
Do we really need to pay palestinians to murder?
My ideas boom
Innovative ways to make our government lean and agile
Partners in peace
The Iranians are masters of chess. And they’re playing us for fools
Cods wallop
One might hope that as a Hellene, Niki Savva could shed some light on the tragedy of the Abbott government…
Australian notes
Jousting over unicorns was not the most fanciful moment in Canberra this month as the Opposition brings forth one fantastically…
The lovely Clare Valley, like southern France with added kangaroos
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
The Clare Valley
It is a century and a half since The Spectator noted the exceptional qualities of South Australia, a colony of…
Hungarian notebook
Where better to hold a one-day conference on ‘Islamic Radicalism and the West’ than in the Great Hall of the…
