Features Australia
Castration of the male?
Expect the US Supreme Court, still captured by political activists, to downgrade men’s rights within the decade, with honorary ‘feminist’…
Troubled land
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.– Rudyard Kipling, ‘Letters from the East’,…
The Left’s libricide
Recently, Erik Jensen, founding editor of the Saturday Paper and convener of the Horne Prize for essays, had been so…
New prophets of doom
Picture a scene. A cowed audience is gathered to listen to a wise man. He tells them that he has…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
Brash free speech
It’s taken a while, but the speech wars have reached New Zealand – and an Australian is in the thick…
Julia Gillard’s dropouts
In 2008, Julia Gillard announced that the Rudd government’s policy of uncapping university places marked the start of ‘a higher…
Dumbing down
The Commonwealth Minister for Education, Dan Tehan, must be congratulated for rejecting the curriculum model pushed by the OECD’s The…
The media vs the people
‘The separation of powers means that the legal system is answerable to no one,’ I said, speaking at the Sydney…
No real pain in Paris
When the infighting over the Liberal leadership raised the possibility that Australia might join the United States in exiting the…
Fear and loathing in Ultimo
Apropos Michelle Guthrie’s sacking, and the bitchy tweet ‘Excellent decision’ by Four Corner’s Sally Neighbour, the ABC has always been…
Trump’s toughness
Let’s talk quotas, ignoring social media morons and Trump’s toughness. The first topic has to do with all those laments…
Business/Robbery etc
As disasters go, 9/11 is now much less of a problem for the world than 9/15. There are no widespread…
Dispatches from the conservative frontline
In early 2017, as feminists in pink pussy hats marched in shocked outrage at the election of President Trump, a…
Revenge of the Queen Bees
Three girls in school tunics and battered hats are firing a machine gun in the quad. ‘Girls, girls, a little…
The war of the world
To properly understand the trend of world political events in recent years, it is essential to appreciate that a titanic…
Aux bien pensants
You can’t walk on both sides of the street, PM If the Coalition were to go to the general election…
Stolen land? Tell that to the Berbers
Last month, Greens Senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi spoke some of the most misguided and divisive words heard in parliament in…
Upsetting Maggie
I had certainly not intended to upset Margaret Thatcher when I joined the Times in 1987 but when we met…
Sovereignty is sacred
Increasingly, many if not most Australian, British, American and other Western politicians have been imposing policies the people would never…
Toasting Brexit
When Yes, Prime Minister’s Sir Humphrey explained in 1986 to his PM that the determination of the British Foreign Office…
Wizards of Oz revisiting UK
Late in 1969 in Australian ports I was one of the many deck officers in the merchant navy in a…
The Spectator Anglo-Australia Forum
The Aussie sun shone down over a glistening Sydney harbour only metres from where the First Fleet landed back in…
It was 10 years ago today…
I have been a regular to semi-regular writer for The Spectator Australia pretty much from the start and for all…
Plus ça change…
I was stopped at the pub a few weeks ago by a middle-aged bloke, who identified himself to me as…
