How Truss plans to bring the Bank of England to heel

6 August 2022 10:36 pm

Liz Truss believes the Bank of England has lost control of inflation. If chosen as the country’s next prime minister,…

Why Liz Truss is right to say ‘forecasts are not destiny’

6 August 2022 8:36 pm

‘Forecasts are not destiny,’ said Liz Truss in last night’s debate: a remark that has drawn alarm in some quarters. If…

Britain should follow Trump’s lead over Jerusalem

6 August 2022 5:30 pm

Liz Truss has signalled a historic shift in British foreign policy by saying she would review the location of the…

The halcyon days of Anglo-German relations

6 August 2022 5:00 pm

In Brenners, Germany’s grandest grand hotel, in Baden-Baden, Germany’s smartest spa town, there’s a corner of a foreign drawing room…

How ‘taking the knee’ spoiled football

6 August 2022 4:30 pm

Premier League footballers ‘taking a knee’ came in at the tail end of the 2019-20 season, when stadiums were empty…

Ukraine’s fate may rest on a mild winter

6 August 2022 4:00 pm

Russia is once again relying on ‘General Winter’. Instead of freezing German advances on Moscow, the plan today is to…

The myth that Hiroshima was necessary

6 August 2022 12:17 pm

If you think the falsehoods spilling out of Ukraine about casualties and atrocities are shocking, meet the greatest lie of…

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6 August 2022 9:00 am

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Whose voice?

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Here we go again. No sooner is Labor elected than they claim a mandate to create an institution that will…

Brown study

6 August 2022 9:00 am

When I was an MP, ‘details’ was my middle name. Whenever we had a brain-snap about the latest way to…

Climate tropes

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Don’t be fooled

Pandora’s submarines

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Aukus could create unintended consequences

Defending Taiwan

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Beijing’s sabre-rattling about Pelosi is just the latest attempt to bully the West

Rise of the race shifters

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Governments are incentivising the growth of Aboriginal identity fraud

Gender behind bars

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Housing trans prisoners is not straight forward

Love Labor’s Voice

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Giving judges a blank cheque is fraught with danger

Business/Robbery, etc.

6 August 2022 9:00 am

We need better parties to deal with the coming crises

Undoing Australia

6 August 2022 9:00 am

The University of Melbourne is training revolutionaries to dismantle the nation

Primeval Voice

6 August 2022 9:00 am

So, Archie Roach is dead at 66. It’s hard to read of the artistic triumphs and the personal catastrophes without…

Aussie Life

6 August 2022 9:00 am

I read in the Australian last week that the Queensland parliament is considering criminalising stealthing. And no, that’s not a…

Language

6 August 2022 9:00 am

A Speccie reader has alerted me to the use of an odd word ‘alum’ to refer to the graduates of…

Mandate to harm

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Four Labor policies will damage Australia

Holding water

6 August 2022 9:00 am

It is clear that the country will soon need a Water Czar. Augustus’s right-hand man Agrippa would be the one…

Letters

6 August 2022 9:00 am

Injured party Sir: Prue Leith’s short interlude as a Conservative party member and subsequent resignation underlines a feature of the…

China’s baby bust

6 August 2022 9:00 am

The demographic crisis might stall its rise