The Bank of England is right: Brits can’t keep demanding pay rises
Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill isn’t going to win a popularity contest. Speaking on a podcast for Columbia…
The narcissism of Just Stop Oil
Just Stop Oil (JSO) activists have an insatiable appetite for mayhem. Protesters from the environmental group are slowing down traffic…
Why are so many Indian migrants crossing the Channel?
Indians now make up the second-biggest cohort of Channel migrants: 675 Indians arrived in small boats in the first three…
Albanese is making life harder for mainstream Australians
While Australians were ensconced in the Easter long weekend, the Albanese government announced that would not be extending the low-…
Good riddance to the metaverse
So pack it all in then. Away with the wisecracking butterfly that sits on your shoulder during work meetings. Out…
Could the UK’s new China policy prevent a second cold war?
What a difference a year makes. Three prime ministers ago, in April 2022, Liz Truss gave a characteristically punchy speech…
Why Bernie Sanders has no heir
The Democratic establishment has never looked more vulnerable to progressive upheaval; Biden’s supposed leadership bridge to a new generation leads…
The dollar is here to stay
Reports of the death of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency are greatly exaggerated. Fortunately for America, while…
Help? What’s that?
I have found myself sitting in gutters a number of times in my counselling psychology career. There is some kind…
Spectator TV Australia: with Andrew Neil and Alan Jones
Spectator Australia TV is back! Based on the UK Spectator TV’s The Week in 60 Minutes, Spectator Australia TV brings all…
It’s ‘Groundhog Day’ for the Religious Discrimination Bill
On November 4, 2022, the Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus MP, asked the ALRC to recommend reforms to the law…
Biden’s 2024 announcement is begging for the return of Trump
Joe Biden’s campaign officially launched with a video released in the early morning hours featuring a message bizarrely limited in…
Why should gardeners learn to love weeds?
Dirt, is, as the anthropologist Mary Douglas famously put it, ‘matter out of place’. For her, ‘there is no such…
China is right to chuckle at Britain’s foreign policy
The Foreign Office has seven ministers, 16,000 employees, an £11bn credit card and one of these days it might get itself a foreign policy. If the…
Labour’s ‘lessons for boys’ plan is a sinister sideshow
What are schools for? The answer used to be obvious: school was where children went to learn how to read,…
Can the Foreign Office avoid the mistakes of Kabul in Sudan?
A British evacuation of Sudan began last night after a 72-hour ceasefire was agreed. Ministers, however, are anxious about the…
Britain’s bloody history in Sudan
A 72 hour truce between rival military factions has been brokered in Sudan’s civil war by US Secretary of State…
Jolyon Maugham’s opening sentence might be the worst of all time
In the first sentence of his book, Jolyon Maugham – the anti-Brexit KC best known for clubbing a fox to…
Climate activism must not be allowed to undermine climate science
Student activist Edred Whittingham baffled the snooker world last week by jumping onto the green baize at the Snooker World…
Fox News is all Tuckered out
Perhaps it is surprising – perhaps not? – that one week after Fox News settled its alarming defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the…
Fear and loathing in post-Covid Australia
Three years ago, I was approached at a pub in Brisbane by a television station reporting on the mask mandates…
Tucker Carlson for president?
This past weekend Tucker Carlson gave the keynote address at the Heritage Foundation’s Fiftieth Anniversary Summit and Gala. His speech wasn’t…
Australian productivity growth lowest in 60 years
Last month the Productivity Commission (PC) revealed that Australian productivity growth on the decade to 2020 was the lowest in…
Australia’s Korean War 70 years on
As we approach the 70th anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement (July 27, 1953), it is timely to reflect on…
Bryna Pomp is MAD about jewelry
Open Bryna Pomp’s wardrobe and you’ll find a uniform of near identical navy blue and black dresses. Yet squirreled away…
