Prince Andrew will never learn his lesson
As the Princess of Wales draws plaudits for appearing at last night’s BAFTA awards in a subtly reused Alexander McQueen…
Macron is right about the danger of Russia after Putin
France’s President Macron has raised hackles time and again with his interventions on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. For all his…
Sunak is taking a gamble on the Protocol
Westminster is back to the Brexit wars this week. Once again, a Conservative leader is trying to finalise a deal…
The senseless re-editing of Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl was, in many respects, a horrible man. He was a narcissist, a bully, a liar, an anti-Semite, a…
China is playing the long game over peace in Ukraine
At the Munich Security Conference over the weekend, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi announced that his country was currently in…
China’s Covid response ‘a miracle in the history of human civilisation’
Someone is lying about Covid – we just need to work out who it is… The Chinese Communist Party held onto draconian…
Bourla-von der Leyen text message scandal: EU can’t function without corruption
Spectator Australia readers will recall the admission by Pfizer executive Janine Small that there was never any testing done to…
Blather, babble, blah – the death throes of ABC TV news
That ABC TV news is dying is not in dispute. The remaining question is whether to switch off life-support or…
Queensland’s youth crime crisis: cutting through Palaszczuk’s proposals
Crime doesn’t pay – unless you’re a recidivist youth offender living in Queensland. The fatal Boxing Day stabbing of Emma Lovell,…
Trucking billionaires
Federal Labor is set to bolster the businesses of trucking billionaires and corporations. Unsurprisingly, the billionaires are more than happy…
Boris Johnson fires a warning shot to Sunak
Rishi Sunak is once again facing an unhelpful intervention from one of his predecessors. As the Prime Minister attempts to…
The rewriting of Roald Dahl is an act of cultural vandalism
The vandals have come for Roald Dahl. His books for children are to be cleansed of their ‘offensive’ content. Sensitivity…
Scottish schools have become places of indoctrination
Nicola Sturgeon may be on her way out – but after 16 years of SNP rule, Scottish schools are still…
The man who saved North Carolina from nuclear disaster
On a cold wet day in January 1961, Lt Jack ReVelle climbed out of a muddy hole in the ground, holding…
China is trying to strangle the world’s solar panel industry
China is moving to consolidate and exploit its position as world leader in solar power technologies, by restricting the export…
Was Jean Raspail racist?
Fifty years ago, one of the most controversial books of the late 20th century was published. Camp of the Saints…
Energy starvation: the West goes hungry to keep the lights on
Mainstream and government-based publications have been running concerning headlines in recent months regarding food insecurity in Western nations – including…
The West shouldn’t underestimate Russia in Ukraine
Russia’s winter offensive appears to have begun with a decidedly underwhelming series of operations in the Donbas. So far results…
The poison of ersatz victimhood
In an interview about his excellent book Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the eminent scholar Thomas Sowell underlined several peoples that…
QLD Police say shooting was an act of ‘Christian terrorism’
Queensland Police have said the December shooting that resulted in the deaths of two officers and an innocent neighbour was…
Diary of a cooker
We were in Hobart for the school holidays when I attended my first Freedom Rally on July 24, 2021. It…
Ron DeSantis is scarier than Trump, says Vanity Fair
Cockburn has noticed a trend over at Vanity Fair, that once-esteemed publication. They write about Ron DeSantis, a lot. Obsessively,…
Oxford students should resist these medieval trigger warnings
In 1408, the Archbishop of Canterbury convened a synod in Oxford to prohibit the reading of John Wycliffe’s English translation of the…
Nicola Sturgeon’s disastrous economic legacy
When Nicola Sturgeon looks back on her economic legacy, what will she feel most proud of: the big industrial plants…
JK Rowling is no transphobe – and I should know
Most authors would undoubtedly be satisfied with the legacy of Harry Potter: hundreds of millions of books sold, a film…
