Guerilla warfare and targeted assassinations: Inside Ukraine’s partisan resistance
Dmytro Savluchenko was one of Moscow’s useful idiots: a Ukrainian advocate of Russkiy Mir (or ‘Russian world’), Putin’s idea of a kind…
A pro-life revolution
Set aside your opinions about abortion for a moment. Throw down the fluttering placards about “THE PRO-LIFE GENERATION” and “KEEP…
Boris’s unapologetic by-election response
Boris Johnson has not accepted responsibility for the two by-election defeats. You could have written this line at any point…
The Price of being Katie
Katie Price has, yet again, avoided prison. She was up at Lewes Crown Court on Friday, this time for breaching…
Zelensky’s peculiar Glastonbury appearance
Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t quite make it onto the Glastonbury line-up posters. Perhaps Michael Eavis, the owner of ever-so Worthy Farm,…
The truth about the Roe v. Wade abortion ‘ban’
You wait decades for landmark reforms in America and then, like culture-war buses, two come along at once. Earlier this…
Tories shouldn’t bin Boris yet
If only they had waited until today. Had Tory MPs cleared the threshold for a confidence vote in Boris Johnson…
Is Boris heading for a 1997 moment?
Why was the Tory defeat in 1997 so heavy? One of the reasons was that the anti-Tory vote tended to…
When are we banning the hammer and sickle?
Victoria this week become the first Australian jurisdiction to ban the Nazi swastika, with those who defy the ban to…
Standard of living to fall sharply
In the pre-Covid days, strike activity was fast disappearing. In Europe, the average days lost from strikes more than halved.…
Back to gold
With the ASX having hit its lowest point since December 2020 earlier this week, and housing prices in major cities…
A different take on Reserve Powers
Although Peter O’Brien’s recent Spectator Australia article defending Sir John Kerr’s dismissal of the Whitlam government was essentially directed at the…
Queensland: boosting tourism with tax?
Covid nearly killed Far-North Queensland’s $2.5 billion tourist industry. Now, the Queensland Tourism Industry Reference Panel is here to finish…
In defence of striking
Here’s something I’ve learned over the past few days. The right loves the working classes when they’re voting for Brexit,…
Boris, Zelensky and Britain’s new special relationship
Boris Johnson has been accused of shamelessly using the war in Ukraine for his own political ends. The timing of his…
Liberalism: the great political disease
If two years of intermittent lockdowns, compulsory masking, and all the other effects of Covid haven’t convinced our remaining Dr Panglosses that…
Energy reality bites hard
Energy crises have a useful ambiguity to them. Each crisis creates an opportunity for everyone to claim that, ‘It would…
Roots in our past, growing for our future
Despite this being the year of Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, the republican debate in Australia has reignited following the Albanese…
Macron’s state of denial
Crisis? What crisis? Emmanuel Macron emerged from his bunker tonight to speak to France for the first time since his…
A pox on the monkeys
Monkeypox is a rare but potentially dangerous viral disease closely allied to Smallpox, although much less severe. Two major strains…
Russia is sidestepping American oil sanctions
When the European Union finally made the decision to ban 90 percent of Russia’s crude oil imports by the end…
Zelensky’s homophobia row reveals a divided Ukraine
A peculiar row has broken out in Kyiv over the role of one of Zelensky’s best-known advisers. Oleksiy Arestovych is…
Boris Johnson’s inflation contradiction
As Boris Johnson tries to limit pay rises to bring down inflation, ministers have no explanation for why planned rises in…
Inflation is a social evil, so why don’t our leaders care?
It was a ‘destroyer of society’, a ‘tax on ordinary people’s savings’ and a threat to social order. You don’t…
Joe Lycett’s donkey joke isn’t a matter for the police
There’s a word for countries in which you might get collared by the police because someone took offence to your…
