Coastal wind farms: this Sunday, the people say ‘no’ again
When the first coastal wind farms were announced by Energy Minister Chris Bowen, I thought I was dreaming. Australia has…
Will Muslim voters really desert Labour?
It was always a question of when, not if, the Labour party would start tearing itself apart over the Israel-Hamas…
What Palestinian ‘solidarity’ marchers in the West don’t understand about Hamas
The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October have been revealed in their terrible savagery. There are accounts of dead…
How Britain failed Israel
That the United Kingdom’s central institutions are rotten, crumbling, captured and perhaps beyond recovery is not news, but the Gaza…
Why are Cambridge University’s librarians judging ‘problematic’ books?
Librarians across Cambridge University are on the look out. Their target, among the ten million-odd volumes in the main library…
The Loophole Bill: 1.2 million self-employed Australians at risk
My recent Spectator Australia article, Labor’s revolutionary agenda to destroy Australia, gave an overview of the Albanese government’s Industrial Relations Bill, also…
Australian Catholic Bishops and the referendum
In the last few days of the referendum campaign, I was struck by something Warren Mundine said. It went along…
Darwin Award
Self-annihilation through sheer stupidity is what qualifies an individual to be honoured at the annual satirical Darwin Awards. Started as…
A naive friend
John le Carré was one of the more extraordinary popular writers of the last half-century (and more) and part of…
Kiwi life
Elections are always hard fought. But for most New Zealanders to be so desperate to throw out Jacinda Ardern’s original…
Language
The weather bureau tells us that we are now officially in an ‘El Niño event’ and, as a result we…
Who has the best side hustle?
Side hustles David Solomon, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, said he would stop DJing in clubs, following criticism from the…
Identity Crisis: why doesn’t the West know who to back in the Israel-Hamas war?
When two planes flew into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, the world stood in solidarity with the…
The Tory vote squeeze
When the cabinet gathered on Tuesday morning, the meeting started as a sombre affair. Just days before, the Conservatives had…
