The shameful evacuation of pets from Afghanistan
Two stories on the Afghan evacuation today combine to leave me full of bewildered rage. The first, from the Times:…
Why I write or Hemingway’s chicken suit
Flat White lore is rich with stories of those who didn’t quite make it and those who did make it but we really wish hadn’t, and those who may make…
SpecOz TV – featuring Laurence Fox
This month’s edition of Spectator Australia TV is out now. Gideon Rozner rocks and is joined this month by a…
Biden’s big empathy fail
Empathy won Joe Biden the White House, we were told. Indeed, as former Republican speechwriter Peter Wehner informed us, ‘In the…
We need to find the muscle memory of Western greatness
Like millions around the world, I have spent recent days watching – sometimes forcing myself to watch – these images…
Here comes the Afghan refugee crisis
The rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban has potentially dire consequences for Afghan women and children. The Islamist group…
Biden’s mad-lib bungle
The terrorist attack at Kabul airport on Thursday was so horrific as to summon the word ‘unprecedented’. But it was…
Battle lines drawn
Oh, what a difference a week makes! As Australia reaches a tipping point in the number of people vaccinated –…
Saigon… Kabul… Taiwan?
America’s reputation is falling faster than the bodies dropping from the under-carriages
Jesus & the journo
Greg Sheridan, the foreign editor of the Australian newspaper, is best known for his shrewd analysis of our country and…
Nicole Kidman
And, as even Canberra locks down, so do all the shows. The Melbourne Theatre Company shuts down its production of…
Aussie Life
We now know that Boris Johnson’s initial reluctance to impose Covid containment regulations was prompted by a confidential January 2020…
Aussie Language
TV host Paul Murray spoke on Sky News Australia about the role the word ‘misinformation’ is currently playing in the…
It’s natural to be territorial
The Afghans the Home Office is scrambling to resettle in Britain present one of immigration’s most sympathetic cases: translators and…
Screech, howl, yelp, crash
The new Lily Allen vehicle opens in a spruced-up terrace in the East End. Allen plays a self-satisfied yuppie, Jenny,…
Portrait of the week
Home At the virtual G7 emergency summit that he was chairing, Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, urged President Joe Biden…
