How can anyone own the word ‘liberal’?
There is no word more mangled in the political lexicon than ‘liberal’. It’s the only word whose definition first requires…
Daniel Andrews, democracy is an essential service
The Commonwealth parliament is sitting this week. The Victorian parliament is supposed to be. Except it isn’t. On the advice…
What can’t civil rights law do?
The Biden administration fired a stern warning to five states on Monday afternoon, warning them that forcing all students to…
Zero-Covid is wishful thinking if Australia wants to rejoin the world
As former Australian foreign minister and High Commissioner to the UK Alexander Downer wrote in last week’s magazine, almost all…
The battle for Eastern Europe’s energy sector
The fight to power eastern Europe is heating up. As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky prepares to meet Joe Biden at the…
The Liberal Democrats have a dangerous vision for the City of London
Liberals have always set great store by laws and declarations. It was joked about Lord Loreburn, the liberal Lord Chancellor…
Australia: addicted to fear
Australians are the canaries laying at the bottom of the birdcage with all their little green and gold feathers gathering…
ABC frontliners drowning in their own sycophancy
Just how stupid do ABC marketers and presenters believe their audience actually is? On the evidence, the answer is very.…
How China drove a wedge between America and Israel
Two weeks ago, CIA director William Burns – who has rather a lot on his plate just now – had…
‘We can no longer tolerate what ails us, nor its remedy’
Earlier in my career, in a very different world, I lived in China. It was possible, then, to stand on…
Why Boris Johnson’s opponents keep failing
Which Boris Johnson should Labour fight? There is little doubt about the personality traits most left-wing activists think they have…
Why football fans are still booing players taking the knee
On the opening day of this year’s season, I went to see Chelsea play Crystal Palace. The match programme featured…
The PM and the Coalition’s polling paradox
Today’s Newspoll is ugly for the Coalition, throwing their primary vote and two-party preferred deficit back into late Malcolm Turnbull…
The Prince of Prussia’s Nazi problem
Perched on a mountain top overlooking the Swabian Alps, Hohenzollern Castle, with its picturesque towers, seems like something out of a…
Why does Annastacia Palaszczuk think National Cabinet’s roadmap to reopening doesn’t apply to her?
Queenslanders are now far too familiar with the snap lockdowns and border restrictions used by the state government to manage…
Expelled leftists mull new party
The not-so-great and good of the onetime Labour left were out in force last night, as members of Labour Against the…
Can we get our money back on ADF chief Angus Campbell?
In signals intelligence the term “look through” describes the tactic of penetrating deliberate noise and interference to reveal the real…
The bell tolls for us in Kabul
Some events are like this. They creep up like a stalking wolf. Or, as Nietzsche put it, on doves’ feet. We don’t…
Who lost Afghanistan?
America’s longest war draws to a bloody end. As the pullout deadline approaches, the probability of more atrocities like the…
In defence of cruel foods
Fishmongers are an endangered species in London. Thankfully, 15 minutes walk across Westminster from The Spectator’s offices there is an…
Have WorkSafe Victoria breached their statutory obligations over the hotel quarantine disaster?
It’s been eight weeks since the Victorian WorkSafe Authority failed to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions its investigation…
Anne Hidalgo’s socialist reign of error in Paris
A photograph, taken in June 2014, has become emblematic of Anne Hidalgo’s Socialist rule of Paris. In the picture stands…
The political extremism of the left: a sacred cow
Everyone that wants to combat dogma and extremism should support heretics, no matter what sacred cows they slay. The fact…
The rise and fall of the yakuza
For the first time in history, an organised crime ‘yakuza’ boss has been sentenced to death in a Japanese court.…
The law is not fit to stop Extinction Rebellion’s street protests
Extinction Rebellion (XR) are once again blocking London’s streets, reportedly emboldened by the Supreme Court’s recent Ziegler decision – which…
