Putin at 70: How The Spectator has covered his life
Vladimir Putin turns 70 today. Since he became Prime Minister of Russia in 1999, some of The Spectator’s greatest contributors…
Liz Truss’s fate rests with the Bank of England
James Carville, an ostentatiously aggressive adviser to Bill Clinton, once said that when he died, he wanted to be reincarnated…
China’s Pacific propaganda machine
Aside from a few lingering China apologists, no one will be surprised to learn that China has set up a…
ABC: winning hearts and minds…?
Imagine a large multinational commercial enterprise with a readily identifiable identity inserting subliminal messages into its advertising campaigns. To be…
Mobilise the church against Daniel Andrews!
Churches in Victoria must mobilise their congregations to vote Daniel Andrews out of office. Sure the Liberals are hopeless, but…
How to fix the ‘extinction crisis’
Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has announced the latest plan to ‘save’ our wildlife. Tanya Plibersek launches new Threatened Species Action…
Addiction to emergency power
Western Australians have been enjoying a semblance of freedom after Mark McGowan ended the Covid state border restrictions several months…
How likely are the lights to go out this winter?
Britain will make it through the winter without the lights going out. That’s the view of the National Grid, which is…
Paris’s football World Cup boycott will achieve little
Several French cities have announced that they will be boycotting the upcoming World Cup in protest against the Qatari state’s…
Oil giants aren’t government cash cows
According to Labour, solving the energy crisis is really very simple. Rather than funding an energy price cap through borrowing, as…
Many Europeans continue to yearn for British leadership
Liz Truss’s mind was probably elsewhere when she arrived in Prague for the inaugural summit of the European Political Community (EPC)…
Iran’s leaders are fighting a losing battle
Iran’s rulers are holding firm. The country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini has expressed sorrow at the killing of Mahsa Amini…
Opec’s oil cut spells more bad news for Brits
Liz Truss joins other European leaders in Prague today at the first meeting of the European Political Community. Truss’s presence…
Britain’s shameful appeasement of Iran
France took some flak from Britain earlier this year for its perceived reluctance to rally to Ukraine after Russia’s invasion.…
Counting the cost of being a ‘public’ Christian
Last week’s resignation of Andrew Thorburn from his newly acquired role as CEO of Essendon Football Club raises deep concerns…
Meloni: the Italian Tory?
‘Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves…
It’s the politics, stupid
When US President Joe Biden said ‘we don’t have much time’ at the UN National Assembly on September 21, 2022,…
A new ‘welcome to country’
The Indigenous Welcome to Country is so prevalent and widespread that it’s heard at sporting events, at the start of…
The Jacinta juggernaut
‘My word she’s good.’ The comment is from the woman in the seat beside me at the Conservative Political Action…
Unity through honesty must carry the stage
There often comes a time when a friend has to put his arm around a mate who is behaving badly…
Is Liz Truss a real grown-up?
Tough call today for Liz Truss. She had to relaunch her premiership at her very first conference as leader. She…
Liz Truss’s cliché-ridden speech was saved by Greenpeace
Liz Truss has, if nothing else, been working on her delivery. Her first speech to conference as Prime Minister was…
Watch: Liz Truss’s speech disrupted by climate activists
Liz Truss’s Conservative party conference speech has been disrupted by climate protesters. The demonstrators stood up during the Prime Minister’s address…
Full text: Liz Truss’s Tory conference speech
My friends, it’s great to be here with you in Birmingham. It’s fantastic to see the cranes across the skyline building…
