Depp v. Heard: trials and tribulations
If you are interested in litigation and court cases, your latest obsession is the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial……
Get wet, end up drowned
Soggy Liberals under attack from the Climate 200 mob have no one to blame except themselves. They walked out into…
Crucial legal front opens in WA vaccine mandate challenge
Spectator Australia readers will recall that, in a recent piece, I reported on an urgent hearing on the evening of Monday, March…
Will Albo bring the Keating interest rates back?
In 1975, when Gough Whitlam came to power, Labor’s free tertiary education scheme meant that I could go to university.…
Putin’s cult of war
This idolisation of the Soviet military is Russia’s modern tragedy. Not least because it is crucial to Putin’s way of…
Read: Vladimir Putin’s victory day speech in full
The following is The Spectator’s translation of Putin’s speech for victory day 2022. Most respected citizens of Russia, dear veterans,…
Crypto is dead
When Britain voted for Brexit, Macron boasted that Paris would eat the City of London’s lunch. It didn’t quite work…
How Ukraine rained on Putin’s parade
The Russians know how to put on a parade, and Victory Day is the showiest of the shows. It may…
The real mistake of Roe v. Wade
The jurist, Ronald Dworkin, once described the vehemence of the dispute over abortion as ‘America’s new version of the terrible…
New Zealand’s Maori language obsession is baffling Kiwis
New Zealand’s borders have finally reopened after a two-year Covid shutdown. But those who travel down under are in for…
Dan’s abysmal fictional Budget
As a former high-school English teacher it’s always struck me as odd that many of the most influential works of…
Hyperventilating over juristocracy
To read the newspapers in Australia and Britain – even the conservative newspapers – one would think the US Supreme…
Mum’s the word
Anthony Albanese can’t tell you much about his policies, but would you like to hear about his mother? The Labor…
Labor’s housing plan: the monster is in the detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…
Krystle Mitchell on Dan Andrews and Victoria Police
[This article discusses multiple forms of trauma, including childhood trauma, sexual assault, and mental health.] I’m currently known as the…
Is an unknown, extraordinarily ancient civilisation buried under eastern Turkey?
I am staring at about a dozen, stiff, eight-foot high, orange-red penises, carved from living bedrock, and semi-enclosed in an…
How Duterte Harry’s legacy of terror lives on in the Philippines
Something momentous is building in the Philippines. Thirty-six years after the kleptocratic despot, Ferdinand Marcos, fled into exile with his…
China’s zero-Covid horror show is inspiring Taiwan to open up
Taipei Nowhere is watching the zero-Covid horror show unfolding in China more closely than Taiwan, where it is encouraging the…
The abortion debate turns brutal
Not too long ago, pro-choice activists wished for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare.” Their argument was that no…
Liberalism gave us this hard new right
The future of conservatism will look like Friedrich Nietzsche meets Beavis and Butt-Head if things continue the way they have been going. As…
Karl Marx wouldn’t fancy Xi Jinping
The essence of communism (in case you haven’t managed to grab a copy of Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto), is that everything…
I don’t need to be ‘welcomed’ to my country
The notion that Australians must be welcomed or invited to their own country by Indigenous leaders – as occurs at…
Harry and Meghan’s balcony ban is a mistake
Once again, a moment that should be a unifying and celebratory for the Windsors has attracted division and discord. It…
Is Putin preparing for total war on 9 May?
Ahead of Russia’s annual Victory Day celebration on 9 May – which marks the date the Soviet Union defeated Nazi…
The left’s great abortion freakout
Can the left-wing hysteria over the Supreme Court’s leaked opinion on abortion get any more ridiculous? Corporate media have claimed…
