This earth-shattering work
What a strange thing popular culture is. Back in the 1970s a lot of people might have affected to despise…
Aussie life
The plight of indigenous people is a scab on our nation which worsens with the picking. No one, not even…
Language
Noel Pearson and others have insisted the Voice referendum ‘is not about race’. Does that make sense linguistically? The word…
The great Tory tax debate
‘I didn’t come into politics to raise taxes on working people,’ said the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves in Liverpool this…
All that glitters
It is remarkable that in his conference speech in Liverpool, Sir Keir Starmer hardly mentioned the government’s biggest failures. There…
The empathy vacuum
I had a brief exchange of messages with a British Muslim bloke on social media who had asked me, very…
The Spectator’s notes
The pattern of Israeli/Palestinian conflicts is always forced by coverage into what people call a ‘narrative arc’. The attacks are…
