The Spectator
Australia
ScoMo steps aside
Former prime minister Scott Morrison, who this week announced his retirement from politics, deserves our respect and praise for being…
Australian Columnists
Brown study
I have had enough of the Aboriginal industry and the posturing, harassment and denigration that it hurls at everyone else.…
Australian Features
Coming up Trumps
Conservatives must get behind the former and likely next President of the USA
Elitist bullies at Woolies
Big Business is way out of touch with ordinary Australians
Features
The Week
Columnists
Books
Escape into fantasy: My Heavenly Favourite, by Lucas Rijneveld, reviewed
The 14-year-old daughter of a Dutch farmer is pursued by a paedophile vet and tries hard to combat the abuse by imagining she’s a bird
An insider’s account of the CCP’s stranglehold on China
A high-ranking intelligence officer leaves a cache of letters revealing his increasing disenchantment with the party after being purged numerous times
A Guardsman’s life as not as glamorous as it might seem
Besides taking part in dangerous operational tours abroad, units of the Household Division keep up a gruelling schedule of ceremonial duties at home
Secrets of the dorm: Come and Get It, by Kiley Reid, reviewed
An academic who also writes a column for a teen magazine eavesdrops on the conversations of rich university students and reproduces them for readers to sneer at
Have we all become slaves to algorithms?
Kyle Chayka sees their constant feeds as flattening our lives, but the spread of Americanisation, which began long before the internet, is the real steamroller
Conrad Black adheres firmly to the ‘great man’ view of history
The movers and shakers of Volume I of his projected history of the world are Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal rather than any socio-economic forces
Mystery in everyday objects
Household gadgets take on a sense of wonder or menace for Lara Pawson, who sees a porpoise’s dorsal fin in the dial of a toaster and a hand grenade in a pepper mill
The strangeness of Charles III
‘He can cry at a sunset’, says one courtier of the King. A bullied child and an intellectual among George Formby fans, Charles dreams of gardening and plants mazes
The problem with westerners seeking oriental enlightenment
Those chasing after blissful satori never seem interested in the people who actually live in Asia. They want to float in higher spheres
Arts
A deeply elegiac work
That superb poet Peter Porter who was also in love with music used to say there was no denying the…
Life
Aussie life
Move over, Errol Flynn. It took long enough, but as of last Tuesday you are no longer Tasmania’s most popular…
Language
A teacher in America has raised a minor storm in a teacup by banning from the classroom current hip and…













































































