An outsider’s view of the election
As an outside observer, my opinion of the recent federal election may well be different from both the politicians and…
Menzies’ middle class needs some help
Spectator Australia contributor, James Allan, recently made a couple of very important observations about the Liberal Party. First, he showed…
Long live the Queen
Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrates a 70-year peaceful reign. It makes her the third longest serving monarch of…
Russia, Ukraine and the forgotten exiles of the 1920s
At the end of 1920, a mass exodus of Russians from their homeland after the Russian civil war created a…
What if the Ukraine war is never won?
In late March, roughly a month into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an unnamed Nato official told NBC News that the…
Are we heading for a Platinum Jubilee recession?
Occasionally I despair of my own profession. Even economists should be able to enjoy a long weekend. Yet some of…
Australia’s green gamble
Australians took a great green gamble in the recent election. Green millionaires and other left-wing activists supported slick campaigns promoting…
Humanity: stuck with palaeolithic minds in the 21st C
The barbaric attack of Russia on Ukraine came as a powerful shock to many of us. When the war exploded…
Hope of the side
It is now abundantly clear that conservatives and a conservative opposition will be essential to prevent Australia becoming a quasi-socialist…
The coming cost of lockdown crisis
On both the political and economic fronts, Covid has left us a massive debt
Let’s apply Covid scepticism to climate change
From fake alarmism to flawed models, these two ‘crises’ have much in common
Nope, it won’t be easy under Albanese
We are in far worse shape than we should be to weather a Labor government
London diary
Two years away from London due to Covid. Our Bloomsbury flat has been empty all that time. Probably possible to…
Big glass slippers to fill
It sounds like a wet dream of musical theatre, doesn’t it? A Cinderella by Rodgers & Hammerstein in a visually…
Aussie life
In last Saturday’s Weekend Australian, Professor Peter Sutton, an internationally recognised anthropologist and linguist, wrote ‘Indigenous identity has become such…
Language
‘Bike shedding’ was coined by British historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson, famous for his book Parkinson’s Law (1957), but…
Imperial measures
At the turn of this century, looking back on the late 1980s when the Pet Shop Boys could do no…
