Columnists Australia
Vale Tim Fischer
Tim Fischer’s penultimate speech in the House of Representatives was in response to a motion condemning the September 11 terrorist…
Simon Collins
In a recent Speccie column my friend Giles Auty recalled his late father’s difficulties with door handles. This may have…
Simon Collins
When I filed my first Spectator piece the Aussie edition was still a twinkle in the eye of the then…
Latham’s law
If only all Australians had the same intellectual luxury available to them as the Victorian Labor Premier, Dan Andrews. Earlier…
Simon Collins
Thanks to the increasingly infantile appetite of cinema audiences and the laziness of modern screenwriters, two distinct but related film…
Latham’s law
In political history, 2019 will be remembered as the year Labor lost the unlosable election due to wrong-headed tax policies.…
Brown study
As you know, The Spectator Australia Political Research Bureau scours the globe searching for new ways in which the democratic…
Australian notes
Superglued to the Greens The great satirical novelist Evelyn Waugh once catalogued a fictional, remote and newly-converted Christian sect who…
Simon Collins
‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,’ is the opening line of The Go-Between, L. P.…
Brown study
As you know, here at The United Nations Cultural Reform Unit we have embarked on a major project to remake…
Brown study
You do not need me to recommend good books. But I will do it all the same, or at least…
Brown study
As we speak, a bright new class of newly-elected MPs and Senators is assembling in the cities, towns and remote…
Simon Collins
You keep yourself nice, you shake the right hands. You spend decades cultivating the good opinion of punters of every…
Brown study
The long march through our institutions goes on, and they are falling over like ninepins. The latest victim is the…
Latham’s law
Somewhere, most likely in a bunker buried beneath the ABC, there’s a Left-wing laboratory working overtime at inventing new slurs…
Brown study
I am afraid I cannot join in the universal and maudlin distress into which so many of our fellow citizens…
Simon Collins
It is unclear, at time of writing, whether an application to stage America’s inaugural Straight Pride Parade on the streets…
Brown Study
A few months ago, I was cleaning up my study to see what could usefully be discarded, so that my…
Simon Collins
Like many Speccie readers I’m old enough to remember when men smoked pipes on buses and tradies whistled. I can…
Brown study
Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 US election the day she called Donald Trump’s supporters ‘a basket of deplorables’. After that,…
Australian notes
Eleven random thoughts Let me start with a bow to those who thought it best to vote for Malcolm Turnbull…
Simon Collins
In a normal year, Easter is the only time when eggs play anything other than a nutritional part in Australian…
Brown study
You liked Pink Batts? You’ll love Funny Money! Why? Well, I am now convinced that the Liberal party has gone…
Brown study
Last week, candidates from all parties were starting to drop like flies as they were disendorsed by their parties for…
Brown study
I see that some members of the media have started referring to the election as ‘boring’. I disagree with them.…
