Why are Jews being blamed for Hamas’s attack on Israel?
‘Victim blaming’ is one of the sins that is most deplored by the social justice movement. When it comes to…
From the referendum booths this morning
An amusing and TRUE anecdote from a Spectator Australia ‘No’ volunteer at a Voice referendum booth this morning… Volunteer: ‘Vote NO…
Reflections of an old ‘No’ voter
Initially, I would like to acknowledge the contributions, however unwitting, to the ‘No’ campaign of Pearson, Burney, Davis, and Langton.…
A fairytale wedding in Mallorca
“You are Kevin?” “Pardon?” Embarking on a solo week driving around Mallorca, then losing my drivers license in transit? Not…
Toxic legacy
Rarely has the resignation of a political leader in Australia been met with such resounding cries of collective rejoicing, but…
Victoria deserves a few moments of celebration!
For many Victorians, there is a lack of understanding regarding how traumatised the working class and democracy-lovers became as a…
The death of the two-state solution
Hamas has achieved something that no Arab army has done since the 1948 war: captured several Israeli localities and held…
Five of the worst responses to the Hamas attacks on Israel
Tragedies are often the moment when statesmen are at their best. Unfortunately, as we’ve seen from the response to yesterday’s…
Starmer faces tough questions as Labour’s conference begins
Keir Starmer began his big conference interview with the BBC talking about the story that has dominated the weekend –…
Israel faces a new kind of war
Israelis awoke to sirens on Saturday. They began after six in the morning on the border of Gaza as Hamas…
Israel has faced its darkest day for 50 years
While preparing to head out to synagogue to join the dancing and celebration for the Simchat Torah festival, the rocket…
Disinformation? Try ‘no’ information
The problem is not disinformation, Mr Ray Martin, it is that we have no information. Let me explain. Over a…
Helen Mirren is perfect to play Golda Meir
The word ‘actress’ used to be interchangeable with ‘prostitute’ and though it’s a good thing that this little misunderstanding was…
Subsidies have defanged the French media
It’s not surprising that much mainstream French journalism is complacent, incurious and stenographic. The elite French media is lavishly subsidised…
My faux pas with Orlando Bloom
The R word strikes terror into the hearts of ministers and their diary managers alike but spare a thought for…
Has Soviet self-censorship come to Britain?
When the Soviet system fell in my native Estonia I was 17 years old. I’d spent the entirety of those…
Hamas is targeting Saudi-Israeli peace talks
Why the attack? Why now? What pretext? For Muslims like me, who have been following the Israel-Arab peace talks with…
The shameful gloating at Israel
Leftists love to fantasise about how heroic they’d have been when Jews were being rounded up in the 1930s. ‘I’d…
Hamas opens the gates of hell. ‘We are at war’ – Netanyahu
Throughout history the lesson remains the same: there can be no peace with neighbours that want you dead. We wake…
Israel declares war on Hamas
Some 5,000 rockets have rained down on Israeli civilians in an attack co-ordinated from land, sea and air by Gaza-based…
An end to pandemonium in New Zealand?
With the New Zealand 2023 General Election taking place very soon and voting now open both abroad and at home,…
Why hasn’t the UK outlawed the IRGC?
As the scale and barbarity of the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel begins to unfold, to no-one’s surprise Iran has…
Will constitutional reform be on Starmer’s conference agenda?
As Labour travels to Liverpool this weekend, one issue which will attract attention is the extent to which Sir Keir…
Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel was meant to bring war
In the early hours of the morning of this morning, Israelis had a flashback to the surprise attack of the…
The trouble with Canterbury Cathedral’s rave
I will not be attending the silent disco that is soon to be held in Canterbury Cathedral. I will not…
