Cheap renewables, rising power bills?
I cannot work out which is more incredible – the claims this government makes, or the fact that this government…
Net Zero: keeping Australia in the dark
It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some…
The political asymmetry of Covid
A couple of days ago, Greg Sheridan had a piece in The Australian in which he argued: ‘Covid has been diabolical…
Is Britain heading into an inflation spiral?
Inflation, asserted Rishi Sunak in his first PMQs, makes us all poorer. That is not entirely true – people relying…
How long before Rishi fatigue sets in?
The Prime Minister has an Asian background. You wouldn’t know that if you listened to the Tories at PMQs because…
The comfort of hating Britain
I occasionally get sent articles from the ‘London Correspondent of the Papua New Guinea Courier’ – less often, now that…
She was the Queen of the West
For much of my life, I confess I didn’t pay much attention to Queen Elizabeth II. My Muslim upbringing in Somalia,…
Backing Badenoch and Braverman is key to Sunak’s success
What do you do when you are a prime minister presiding over a desperately difficult economic outlook riddled with features…
Sunak will be pleased with his PMQs debut
Rishi Sunak vs Keir Starmer at Prime Minister’s Questions today was spicier than many had expected. Both men enjoyed themselves,…
Watch: Sunak savages Starmer
What a first day. Just 24 hours after walking up Downing Street to enter that famous black door, Rishi Sunak…
Six of the worst reactions to Sunak as PM
The chorus of execration that met the appointment of Rishi Sunak as PM has been music to Steerpike’s ears. There are…
Delaying the fiscal statement is a wise move
The date of the fiscal statement has changed again. The Treasury has announced that the update – now being billed…
A ‘workaholic and nerd’: What Russia makes of Rishi
‘Handsome, rich, lucky, traitor.’ That’s how the Russian broadsheet newspaper Kommersant chose to describe the new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak…
Sunak’s reshuffle kerfuffle
After Rishi Sunak completed his new look cabinet on Tuesday night, a Downing Street source declared that the shake-up of…
Letting John Fetterman debate was political malpractice
Like the proprietors of a gimp show at a carnival, Pennsylvania Democrats apparently get off on making the average viewer…
Hillary is the queen of election denial
Hillary Clinton has an ominous warning ahead of the 2024 election: right-wing extremists, she said this week, are already planning…
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan is coming
This October, at the Twentieth National Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Xi Jinping was elected to a…
Where in the world is Greta Thunberg?
When the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York in September, climate-watchers may have noticed a pesky, pigtailed vacuum.…
Hackers! Hackers! Hackers!
The Medibank hack (and others) is a warning about Digital Identity and the future of privacy
Where are electric cars going?
Countries are keen to out-virtue-signal each other with electric cars and their contribution to reducing Climate Change; what is plainly…
Tax changes our behaviour
Most people resent paying tax. Though it’s a sentiment just about everyone can relate to, the economic argument against tax…
Are progressives the new colonisers?
History shows that whoever utters the phrase ‘be on the right side of history’ often ends up eating their words.…
What about Azerbaijan?
The following is a letter in reply to What about Armenia? published September 28. The Spectator Australia is not in…
James Corden suddenly remembers his wife has a food allergy
Maybe it was all those drinks he guzzled after demanding the restaurant comp them, but James Corden forgot for a…
The modern Right’s Cold War moment
To the amusement of other classmates at the adults’ Saturday Vietnamese class, one tutor and I often wind up trying…
