A windfall tax on oil giants would harm – not help – pensioners
Look up this year’s performance of the shares and bonds which make up your pension fund and you will see…
The cost of online safety
Few people in Britain will have heard of the draft Online Safety Bill. Fewer still will oppose it. Protecting children…
Brexit-bashing bishops could ruin the Church of England
When politicians take to preaching, we feel uncomfortable. When bishops take to politics and managerialism, the sinking feeling gets worse.…
Boris Johnson is running out of options
The No. 10 operation’s decision to double down on the Starmer/Savile row after the Labour leader was accosted in the…
The new unpatriotic conservatives
The die against conservatives opposed to the Iraq war was cast by David Frum in a now-infamous essay for National…
The Liberals are a lost cause
For some time, the Liberal Party has been walking a dangerous path, one lined with terrible policies and dodgy backroom…
Australia desperately needs a Criminal Cases Review Commission
Talk about missing the point… All those clamouring for a federal corruption commission to be an election issue have so…
Israel confounds the promise of vaccines as the way out of Covid
Israel was meant to have been the showpiece of vaccination success in escaping from the threat of coronavirus. Instead, it…
Mob hound Starmer outside parliament
An uneventful Monday was enlivened this evening by some rather unappealing scenes outside parliament. Walking back from a Ministry of…
Justin Langer thrown under the cricket bus
Ian Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with…
Le Pen, Zemmour and the two French far rights
Just about two months ahead of the French elections, a first poll for Le Parisién suggests that Marine Le Pen…
Cambridge’s Jesus College is guilty of double standards
An event took place in Cambridge last week that was rare enough to reach the national press: a public hearing…
Why Queen Elizabeth’s accession matters
This week, the United Kingdom is celebrating 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne. The Spectator has come…
SNP councillor: ‘Prosecute Jimmy Carr’s audience’
Oh dear. It seems that the most illiberal party in Great Britain is at it again. In the nationwide haste…
Carrie Johnson and the problem with anonymous sources
The publication of extracts from a biography of Carrie Johnson this weekend is another stark reminder that we need a…
Can we trust our spies’ claims about Russia?
In the Spring of 1988, the body of Britain’s most notorious Cold War spy was lowered into the ground at…
New No. 10 press chief: Boris is ‘not a complete clown’
If Boris Johnson thought his new No. 10 hires would be less high-profile than their predecessors, he might want to…
Politics isn’t a branch of the entertainment industry
Rudy Giuliani has had quite the trajectory in public life. Those of us who remember the days after 9/11 will…
GoFundMe’s spectacular ‘woke’ collapse
The CEO of GoFundMe, Tim Cadogan, set his Twitter account to ‘private’ after presiding over one of the biggest outrages…
Glenn Youngkin’s brass-knuckled conservatism
How is the mood in Virginia these days? It appears to be a bit litigious. Last month, seven school boards…
Labor loves the ‘F’ word, but is too bashful to say it
Queensland loves a good rort, doesn’t it? Their integrity commissioner, Dr. Nikola Stepanov, resigned midway through her three-year term last week. Why?…
‘Conspiracy theorists’ – the new extremists
The rationale that dominates the minds of the mainstream, which for over two years has dictated the dominant discourse, seems…
The real hippies are with Joe Rogan
I have been trying to avoid writing about Joe Rogan since everyone has a take on the old hippy rockers vs…
Has Rishi Sunak blocked Boris’s NHS recovery plan?
The Treasury on Saturday prevented an announcement pencilled in for tomorrow of the so-called ‘elective recovery plan’, the multi-billion pound…
Will the Religious Discrimination Bill see the light of day?
The 2022 Australian federal election must be held on or before May 21, 2022 to elect members of the 47th…
