The dreadful toll of campus injustice
A few years ago, an engaging young overseas-trained doctor arrived in one of our biggest cities to do post-graduate research.…
Let’s remove government regulations that undermine electricity
Today’s announcement of the early closure of the Eraring power station means that, with the Liddell station scheduled to close…
Worse than Watergate. And the cowardly LNP
Consider what old-fashioned Marxists used to dub ‘the ruling class’. In a loose and imprecise sense what they meant were…
Covid and the availability bias
‘Are you more likely to die from a shark attack or falling aeroplane parts?’ Cognitive psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel…
The EU is pushing Hungary and Poland to the brink
Storm clouds looming over the EU’s ‘rule of law’ dispute turned a shade darker on Wednesday. The European Court of…
What’s worse than a lockdown?
‘Worse than lockdown’ is a headline that has been used far too often in the media recently. That’s right, while most…
Putin has created a Schrödinger’s war in Ukraine
In his famous thought experiment, Schrödinger’s cat was both dead and alive in potential, until its box was opened to…
Will Prince Andrew fuel a republican boom?
So that’s then. After years of claims and counter-claims, Prince Andrew has settled with Virginia Giuffre for an eight-figure sum…
Is Germany finally standing up to Russia and China?
When German chancellor Olaf Scholz met Russian president Vladimir Putin yesterday, the visuals said it all. As he had done…
P.J. O’Rourke: the finest satirist of his generation
P.J. O’Rourke was the finest conservative satirist of his generation and therefore the finest of any political persuasion. Satire, an…
Why the French right prefer Putin to progressives
Emmanuel Macron’s visit to Moscow last week was reminiscent of a trip made by Charles de Gaulle to the Russian…
Why ‘Ukraine carnage’ in the markets won’t last
Oil will shoot up to $130 a barrel. The prices of natural gas will double in a few hours, tipping…
Men are the most privileged women of all…
If you watched the National Press Club address by Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins – which I did – and…
DC Republicans quietly comply with Covid restrictions
Conservatives in the DMV have been very loud in their opposition to mask and vaccine mandates — but how many…
Consequences for kids, but not Dan and his ‘image-makers’
Most of us bring our kids up right. They know there are consequences if they misbehave or are disrespectful –…
Skin deep – a history of racial unrest
Whoopi Goldberg’s enormous faux pas – her insistence on The View that the Nazi Final Solution to the ‘Jewish question’ was not driven by…
‘That’s the way these things work…’ Bob Carr and China
One of the most ironic and poignant moments of the Beijing Olympics was when an Uyghur lit the flame. It…
As with Iraq, so with Russia
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, we have been bombarded with many historical analogies. Leading the list are the…
P.J. O’Rourke 1947 — 2022
The great American journalist and satirist P J O’Rourke has died. He contributed a number of articles to The Spectator…
Prince Andrew settles. What next?
In some ways, the news is a disappointment. Prince Andrew’s decision to settle the civil case filed against him by…
What is Boris’s partygate defence?
The presumption of many MPs — and maybe many of you — is that the Met is bound to issue…
To my critics I say, J’Avoue…!
J’Avoue…! Not to compare myself to Emile Zola or the impact of my writings to his famous open letter J’Accuse…! in 1898 on…
Trudeau’s totalitarian turn
It was the hot tub that did it. Photos of Canadian convoy supporters relaxing in a hot tub on a…
Is President Macron’s re-election as safe as it looks?
In February 1995, Jacques Chirac was at 12 per cent in the polls. Two months later he was president. Two…
It’s time for Rishi Sunak to become a low-tax Tory
This week marks two years since Rishi Sunak was thrust from relative obscurity into the political spotlight as Chancellor of…
