High interest rates aren’t the only reason for the house price slump
To no-one’s surprise, house prices fell again last month. Average prices were down by 0.4 per cent in September, according to…
Albanese’s heavy-handed government
The contrast between the ALP’s most successful government – the Hawke-Keating government – and that of Mr Albanese is easily…
What Kevin Keegan gets right and wrong about football pundits
What was Kevin Keegan, the former England and Newcastle manager, thinking when he decided to share his views on ‘lady…
The secret life of Bitcoin
The point of this article is to address two common criticisms of Bitcoin. The first is that it’s created out…
Why is Starmer cosying up to the Sun?
It’s hard to know who has the most to gain from a Faustian pact between Keir Starmer and Rupert Murdoch.…
When will the EU take France’s Islamist concerns seriously?
The European Parliament hosted an event in Brussels last week entitled ‘Close Guantanamo’. It was hosted by two Irish left-wing…
How to avoid repeating the mistakes of the HS2 fiasco
Rishi Sunak has finally slayed the white elephant that is HS2 or, perhaps more accurately, cut off its hind legs…
Starmer changes his tune on the Sun
As if Starmer Chameleon hadn’t done enough U-turns this year. Ahead of his party conference in Liverpool, the Labour leader…
How immigration came to define the Polish elections
Poland is heading for a highly divisive and polarised election on October 15th. The country’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS)…
‘I am 35,000 feet above Beirut, and I am smoking a fag’: Spectator writers recall their favourite cigarettes
The next generation will never be allowed to buy cigarettes. So we asked some of our writers for their favourite…
How I saved a baby in Laos’s jungle
I was writing a thriller in northeast Laos about fifteen years ago near a town called Phonsavan, researching a mysterious…
Newsom’s diversity pick is a depressing sign of the times
California governor Gavin Newsom’s recent appointment of Laphonza Butler, a black lesbian, to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein’s seat generated…
Francis of Rome
Dear God, Forgive your earthly mouthpiece, Francis of Rome, for he knows not what he is talking about when he…
The terrible loss of National Theatre Wales
National Theatre Wales (NTW), the country’s flagship English language company, has warned that it might be forced to close in…
The cycle of war: Ukraine’s futility and America’s endless profiteering
War never changes. It features different people in the same predictable patterns. Those with power manipulate those without to serve…
Mocking murdered leftists is not based
At 1:30 a.m. on Monday, Philadelphia freelance journalist Josh Kruger was shot seven times at the base of his stairs…
Juncker dismisses ‘corrupt’ Ukraine joining EU in near future
Just days after Ukraine’s President Zelensky declared his intention to start EU membership negotiations by the end of this year,…
There’s nothing ‘long-term’ about ignoring the housing crisis
There was much to talk about in Rishi Sunak’s conference closing speech. In around an hour on the stage he…
Commander Biden should have been raised right
Another day, another Biden family member making an embarrassing faux pas. This time, it’s Commander Biden, the less-than-faithful German Shepherd…
Is Fifa trying to destroy the World Cup?
It’s official, well almost. Fifa has announced the location for the 2030 (centenary) World Cup. And the winner is… all…
The Pope has gone full Greta Thunberg
At last, the Pope is being taken seriously when he warns of moral degeneracy – well, sort of. When Popes have…
Why a gangster’s death in Central Asia matters
Such is the globalisation of the modern underworld, that the fate of a gangster you may never have heard of,…
There’s nothing conservative about Sunak’s smoking ban
Is Rishi Sunak the least Tory Tory PM ever? He’s fundamentally Californian at heart: witness his terrible policy to ban…
Can post-liberalism save the Conservative party?
‘We – conservatives of left and right, all those who believe in the old way – need to win this…
Where is the western outrage at this migrant crisis?
Pakistan has told all unauthorised Afghan migrants that they must leave the country by the end of October. Imagine if…
