DeSantis announces ‘Great America Comeback’ 2024 presidential run
DeSantis is Pearl Jam, to Trump’s Van Halen. Both equally rock. The difference is DeSantis doesn’t have the Trump theatre;…
Political and corporate defeatism
Charles Mackay’s 1841, titled Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds has enduringly served to refute claims of collective…
Does Gary Lineker deserve Amnesty’s human rights award?
‘We need to be careful with the language we use,’ said Gary Lineker as he picked up an award from…
Spectator TV Australia: James Allan says Bud Light has been turned into a referendum on trans
Episode 4: Is the Great Barrier Reef dying? Maurice Newman tears apart the narrative. Click below to watch the full…
Is a referendum the answer to solving France’s migrant crisis?
Paris has a problem. The city currently houses some 5,000 migrants in hotels, much to the chagrin of the capital’s…
What Parkrun gets wrong about trans rights
Siân Longthorpe’s record breaking time of 18 minutes and 53 seconds in the Porthcawl Parkrun highlights all that is wrong…
When will the Tories come clean on their migration plan?
Net annual immigration – which successive Tory manifestos promised the electorate would be brought down below 100,000 – has just…
Just Stop Oil’s Chelsea Flower Show protest is a new low
You have to sink low, very low, to target the Chelsea Flower show for an environmental protest. But the boys…
Net migration hits record high – but is significantly lower than expected
It’s three years since the UK formally left the European Union and cut off free movement, and net migration has…
DeSantis’s presidential ambitions are crashing to earth
People imagine that the real world is similar to the dark side of the TV show Succession. For some reason…
The trouble with Britain’s net migration figure
Where to start with the net migration figures? As someone who has generally defended liberal immigration policies, I could just shout,…
New Zealand’s opposition embroiled in AI-attack ad storm
New Zealand’s opposition National party has admitted using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate fake images for its political attack ads.…
Electricity is to blame for stubbornly high energy prices
So much for price-fixing. The energy price cap is finally set to fall, with the result that the average household…
Gender Studies Runs Amok in Lavatories
The University of Sydney’s decision to provide men with sanitary products in the men’s toilets is exactly what happens when…
Can DeSantis clear the giant orange roadblock?
To win the Republican nomination, you have to knock out Donald Trump. That’s no easy task — polls currently show…
A disastrous DeSantis 2024 ‘launch’ on Twitter Spaces
Free tickets to Disney World: maybe that’s what Ron the aspiring Don should give to the clever staffer who thought of…
Are you as bored with AI as I am?
By now we’ve all seen the impressive images created with Midjourney, and perhaps had a play around with ChatGPT. I…
Change the narrative, change the game
Michael de Percy challenged Chris Bowen in person at the Sydney Institute regarding whether or not the government had a…
Sunak should stop pretending that he controls inflation
The government is delighted with today’s inflation update. Rishi Sunak released a clip this afternoon, talking about his government’s efforts…
The next phase of Chalmers’ ‘better capitalism’ is scary
In January 2023, Treasurer Jim Chalmers released a major policy ‘think piece’ where he detailed his and (presumably Labor’s) vision…
What’s this? A good joke from Sir Keir?
Strange tactics by Sir Keir at PMQs. He raised the issue of broken promises on immigration, which gave Rishi Sunak…
DeSantis should talk about Jeffrey Epstein tonight
Ron DeSantis’s choice to enter the presidential stakes with a Twitter Spaces conversation is unusual. Odder still is the news that…
Boris vs Rishi, round VII
The decision by the Cabinet Office to refer Boris Johnson to the police after his ministerial diary revealed visits by…
What will it take to crash the housing market?
Is there anything that might cause the much-predicted crash in UK house prices? Not – evidently – a pandemic (which perversely…
Cape Town after Covid: business buzzes despite power outages
Blazing sunshine. Endless traffic. Horns honking. Wine bars heaving. Trance music blasting. Street hawkers calling. Coastal wind (called the “Cape…
