The French police have lost faith in the judiciary
Emmanuel Macron broke his silence about the recent riots in France at the start of this week. In a speech…
The political battle for net zero is only just beginning
This may come to be remembered as the year where the global warming debate became serious. Until now, there has…
Who killed comedy?
Wading into the Sadiq Khan #HaveAWord brouhaha, Laurence Fox had a pop at Khan’s ally Romesh Ranganathan thus: ‘You are…
The horrors of Native Title: you will own nothing, and you will be happy
We have all heard the warning: ‘You will own nothing and be happy.’ Australia Native Title and Aboriginal Freehold Land…
Camari Mick is making pastry, not solving crimes
“I was really fascinated with the process, the science behind everything,” recalls Camari Mick, the now twenty-nine-year-old star pastry chef,…
Self-harming the nation
As usual, it takes John Howard to cut to the chase with one pithy comment, in this instance on the…
Brown study
Last week we looked at whether the proposed Voice will give rise to an avalanche of litigation and we argued…
Magniloquent horror
The experience of watching Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy, his film with Cate Blanchett as the nun running an orphange…
Aussie life
Wellbeing is complicated. Like junk food and cigarettes, we need professionals to explain it to us, maybe with an expensive…
Language
The compound noun ‘rage apply’ is (I am told) the name being given to a new trend in workplaces around…
Intersectionality is a dud
The almost complete absence of anything remotely resembling an intersection in the progressive doctrine of intersectionality poses a problem for…
The price of populism
Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), dropped the bomb last weekend. In a TV interview, Merz…
Banking crisis
The Coutts scandal can be traced back to the day, two years ago, when the bank proudly announced that it…
The Spectator’s Notes
We now have a reluctant apology from Dame Alison Rose, followed by her even more reluctant resignation. Her departure is…
