White dwarfs
‘White dwarfs’. These two words could get me cancelled. Maybe I should have written about panchromatic ex-Solar System height-challenged exhausted…
How do I vote for the ‘Barty Party’?
In the contrasts between Ash Barty and Nick Kyrgios we see a little of the divisions that rend modern Australian…
Exclusive: House Democrat says no snacks for the unvaxxed
Congresswoman Terri Sewell hasn’t been deterred by court injunctions against President Biden’s vaccine mandates; instead, the Democratic representative for Alabama’s…
A straw man defence of Dark Emu
Recently in a comment thread, a Spectator Australia reader took me to task for claiming in the promotion for my…
Five ways Boris might save his premiership
Boris Johnson doesn’t even like parties, by all accounts. He prefers to be left alone with women. Yet parties are…
Sending a mean tweet about Captain Tom shouldn’t be a crime
Captain Tom Moore captured the nation’s hearts during the pandemic. The World War II officer completed 100 lengths of his…
Why should we listen to celebrities over Joe Rogan?
I’m boycotting Spotify. I am doing this for the same reason as I don’t have a Netflix subscription: I refuse…
Boris must go!
Conservative sympathisers, Conservative voters and Conservative parliamentarians have a simple choice to make this week. Do they stand by a…
Whoopi Goldberg and the problem with progressive America
The Holocaust wasn’t about race because Jews are white. This is the through-the-looking-glass position in which progressive America now finds…
Pakistan’s Christians are living in terror
A Christian priest was shot dead by gunmen in Pakistan’s Peshawar town on Sunday. Pastor William Siraj was gunned down…
Did Keir Starmer fail to prosecute Jimmy Savile?
One of the stranger moments of yesterday’s drama in the House of Commons, following the release of the Sue Gray…
Is Boris really serious about Brexit?
As the partygate furore rages on, Boris Johnson is retreating towards familiar territory: Brexit. A policy blitz is underway this…
The failed attempt to ‘deradicalise’ Germany’s AfD
Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lost its third chair in nine years. Jörg Meuthen is the latest to…
Covid has shattered France’s commitment to liberty
It is a peculiarity of how France has responded to the Covid pandemic that the unvaccinated, or those who have…
Canada should be proud of the truckers’ convoy
The first wave of truckers in the Freedom Convoy arrived in Ottawa on Friday, having travelled across Canada to protest…
The road to freedom
Truckies have become a symbol of freedom for Canadians living under Justin Trudeau’s increasingly despotic medical state. 50,000 trucks –…
Australia is in love with Ash Barty
Everyone in Australia is in love with Ash Barty, and for good reason. That young lady has just won the…
The plot against natural immunity
Natural immunity is a long-held reality of the human body. Ever since disease came into this world, humans have battled…
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
The moment Mr Morrison claimed on March 18, 2020 that Covid was a once-in-100-year pandemic, an opportunity opened up for…
Johnson faces a mauling from his own MPs
Ahead of the publication of Sue Gray’s report into partygate, there had been talk that the police investigation — which…
We are all socialists now, but weren’t we always?
Before the 2007 federal election I posited that ‘Australians are all conservatives now’ (The Australian, 20 April). It argued that thanks…
Johnson’s defence deteriorates
That Boris Johnson regards the Gray update as an opportunity to come up for air was very clear from his…
Are Kamala Harris’s days as Veep numbered?
President Joe Biden promised last week to nominate the first black woman to the Supreme Court. ‘Long overdue,’ he says.…
America’s control over the international system is slipping
The US-led expansion of NATO in the direction of the Russian border took place when America was at the peak…
Boris Johnson’s future is now in the hands of the police
The power of Sue Gray’s ‘update’ of her investigation into parties at 10 Downing Street and the Cabinet Office is as…
