Elephants afraid of mice: how Coalition cowards plan to legislate against the Liberal Democrats
Australia’s electoral system has been designed by politicians for politicians, gently tweaked — usually with the support of both the…
EXCLUSIVE: New polling shows strong belief media Covid coverage has been alarmist
Covid-19 is addictive, not just for the political class but for Australia’s mainstream media. At the beginning of the pandemic,…
Why incels aren’t terrorists
Sometimes, a nutter is just a nutter, even when he’s a homicidal nutter. In the case of Jake Davison, the…
Tony Blair takes back control
Last month Steerpike reported news that Tony Blair was plotting a return to Parliament. One of the many unwanted consequences…
Scotland’s new transgender guidance is a safeguarding nightmare
On Thursday, teachers planning residential trips were told that it was just fine for teenagers of the opposite sex to…
Meet the CRT grifters
The American right nominally has the support of half the country, but it is its own persistent self-inflicted curse that…
Sales of The Spectator jump 27 per cent to a new all-time high
When the pandemic struck, we at The Spectator adopted the brace position. Like many publications, we furloughed staff and prepared…
My roots burnt with Greece
On 11 March this year my father passed away from prostate cancer after several weeks in a hospital in central…
The failure of the right
Sometimes things that don’t happen are as important as those that do. In the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze, about…
The problem with Anglo-Gaullism
Enoch Powell was a great admirer of General de Gaulle. That didn’t stop him, at the end of his career,…
Merkelism is here to stay – and that’s bad news for German politics
When Angela Merkel leaves office after Bundestag elections next month, she will have forever changed the course of German history.…
What’s woke this week?
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics produced some great woke stories. Simone Biles’ withdrawal from gymnastics competition was labelled ‘courageous’ and ‘brave’…
How China tried to suppress the lab leak investigation
The lead figure in the World Health Organisation’s work on the origins of Covid-19 has givena remarkable interview to Danish…
Where is the anger about Afghanistan?
This is an age of anger. Social media amplifies rage and exaggerates polarisation. Twitter isn’t Britain, but too many people…
Mandy & the IPCC
Floods, hurricanes, disaster, disease, drought, rising sea levels: you name it, it’s all there in the latest doom-laden tome from…
Brown study
The Commonwealth government is at it again, doling out money for a fashionable cause and without any need being demonstrated,…
Latham’s law
Rupert, keep an eye on your bunny rabbit Obsessiveness is one of the most fascinating and under-reported aspects of human…
Kiwi notes
Freedom after speech? I recall a very fine lawyer, New Zealand’s most highly regarded QC, once saying that no law…
Hooray for Hollywood
Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood – and hates it.…
