Qantas’ woke capitalism is failing
Qantas has been in the news – generally for bad reasons… Although the airline recently announced a massive fleet renewal…
Liberal values? The party of Menzies should try practising what it preaches
What are Liberal values? The party has a short statement on its website that sets out its ‘beliefs’. There are…
Why are we ignoring nuclear? The answer is Bowen in the wind
Right before my very eyes, was a most wonderful sight that stopped me in my tracks. Towering above the rabble…
Why Northern Ireland’s Chief Constable had to go
Simon Byrne, the Chief Constable of Northern Ireland’s beleaguered police force, has stepped down. It’s about time. The country’s police…
How did the ONS get its GDP figures so wrong?
The Office for National Statistics let a bombshell drop on Friday. Halfway down the first page of their grippingly-titled document…
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic problem
Ladies and gentlemen, please make sure your seat belt is securely fastened and your seat backs and tray tables are…
Sunak faces another tricky Tory by-election
It never rains but it pours for Rishi Sunak. Just when a new term loomed, with the encouraging news that…
Sunak has resorted to relying on rain to stop the boats
There is something curious about even the very modest degree of success the Prime Minister has been able to herald…
Silicon Valley’s curious obsession with building old-fashioned communities
It’s a peculiar thing about billionaires: they don’t half have a weak spot for building ideal communities from the ground up. You could…
How did the Tories not see the school concrete crisis coming?
How did they not see this coming? Normally that question is one of the laziest you can ask in Westminster:…
Child soldiers in the culture war
As we move closer and closer to the referendum, stories are emerging from our schools that should make any parent…
‘Repowered’ wind turbines to ‘suck carbon dioxide’ from the atmosphere
According to the Discovery Channel, there are around 400,000 individual wind turbines in operation. Every single one of these will…
Knock-knock… We are from the ‘Yes’ campaign
Prime Minister Albanese has formally announced the date for the Voice referendum to be October 14, 2023 to unctuous applause…
Fact check: would independence cut Scotland’s energy bills?
Good old Humza Yousaf: the one-man walking cure for imposter syndrome. Scotland’s First Minister was out making the case for…
Maui fires v Ukraine invasion?
They’ve got the wrong comparison when they (voters, politicians, and commentators) complain that while the Biden administration is handing Ukraine…
The case for a September interest rate rise pause
With another RBA meeting due to occur shortly, the speculation around interest rate rises is certainly not unexpected. The CPI…
Free speech on campus, actions are louder than words
Last week the University of Sydney announced that it would avoid taking an official position on the Voice to Parliament.…
A tribute to the lost art of letter writing
There are many good reasons, we’re constantly told, for millennials and Generation Z to resent their elders. What they can…
The terribleness of a progressive Bond
The latest Bond villain is Nigel Farage. Not literally, of course. But he was clearly a major inspiration for the…
China’s ‘standard map’ is a chilling reminder of its imperial ambitions
The Chinese Communist Party’s ‘standard map’ is updated each year to include Beijing’s ever-extending territorial claims. Neighbours see it as…
Paul Fletcher, the father of Australian censorship?
A lot of perfectly warranted criticism has been aimed at Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party over their proposed Misinformation…
Albo’s first 44 words committed Australia to the Uluru Statement
Within the first 44 words uttered by the new Prime Minister of Australia on May 21 last year, Anthony Albanese…
A Victorian odyssey with a long way to go
It is becoming clearer every day that the Andrews government in Victoria has a propensity to bite off a bit…
Have universities hushed-up academics over the Voice?
Academic freedom is supposed to be sacrosanct at universities. However, the Voice referendum has exposed it as a sham. Universities…
‘No’ artwork free to use
Now that the Voice To Parliament referendum has been called, please feel free to use, with our permission, the Spectator…
