Vaccine mandates and passports are simply a bad idea
Covid-19 vaccine mandates and passports are a bad idea. I don’t want to suggest that they are unconstitutional, or…
Daniel Andrews sets the police onto Melbournians – and Melbourne itself
At the moment Melbourne’s beating heart, the CBD and inner suburbs, are almost silent — other than the sound of…
Aukus is a disaster for the EU
It is hard to overstate the importance of the so-called Aukus alliance between the US, the UK and Australia —…
Are children capable of making life-changing decisions?
Keira Bell is a name that will be remembered. Like Victoria Gillick before her, she argued in the High Court…
Glad the Impaler
The New South Wales government press release proudly announcing ‘freedom for the fully vaccinated’ is a document of shame, and…
Latham’s law
Pull the other one, Dom There’s a lot of talk about what the Australian economy will look like post-Covid. In…
Poison pill
‘Who guards the guardians?’ asked Juvenal in his sixth Satire, in the second century. He was referring to corruptible lechers…
Diane Lane
It was doubly sad the other night to see Virginia Gay deliver a speech from her Covid-cancelled Cyrano on the…
Aussie Life
When maverick ex-New York Times reporter Alex Berenson said that the Covid-19 jabs didn’t stop infection or transmission, and were…
Aussie Language
When Extinction Rebellion vandalised Parliament House they were engaging in ‘stuntism’— a word that was coined by Mark Latham. When…
Puzzle No. 671
White to play. Gaprindashvili–Servaty, Dortmund 1974. The dark squares around Black’s king are critically weak, and White found an accurate…
Don’t scrap start-up grants for wannabe entrepreneurs
I’m hugely enjoying meeting the finalists for The Spectator’s Economic Innovator of the Year Awards. This year’s bumper entry was…
An immigration amnesty
Many feared mass unemployment as a fallout from Covid-19. Instead, we have ended up with the opposite problem: a labour…
Solution to 2521: Leading question
The question was ‘What is THE THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY(-)NINTH PRIME NUMBER’ (7A/10/22/40/16/31/32/28)? The answer is 2521, the number of…
Rock god
In Competition No. 3216, you were invited to retell a well-known biblical story in a secular style that would enhance…
Detecting vulnerabilities
I suspect many players perceive the chess board in rich contrast, like a heat map. Glowing bright red are those…
