We can’t rely on the police to clean up mobile phone theft
A call from my younger son’s secondary school was not what I was expecting at 11.30 a.m., but as soon…
Prep isn’t ‘back’ — it never left
Open up any social media and type in the word “prep.” I just did it: to my horror, I was…
An avalanche of fun in Winter Park, Colorado
Arriving to spend a month in Denver, Colorado, decision-paralysis hit me like a ton of bricks. Almost as hard as…
Saving South Africa – and the West – from the CRT boomerang
South Africa looms large in the Western imagination. Not only as a country of strategic importance due to the commodities…
Mr Neil’s visit
The visit to these shores, the furthest-flung and smallest outpost of the transatlantic Spectator empire, by our chairman Andrew Neil,…
Brown study
For a while there, it looked as if it was impossible to write anything fresh or original about the Voice…
What did the Brits ever do for us?
A decade ago, American sociologist Michael Hechter quipped that ‘good alien government may be better than bad native government,’ a…
The pity of war
‘My subject is war and the pity of war,’ Wilfred Owen wrote in the poems which Benjamin Britten set to…
Aussie life
After that tweet by Mark Latham, thousands of column words, outraged tweets and statements by MPs quickly followed. I can’t…
Language
This year is the centenary of Vegemite. The classic Australian spread first hit the shelves of local grocery stores in…
The gloves are off
When Rishi Sunak became Tory leader, the party was 30 points behind Labour: that kind of deficit has historically been…
Reign or shine
The United Kingdom is one of the last countries in the world to host lavish coronation ceremonies. Europe’s new kings…
