We need to act now to block Britain’s social credit system
I have to admit that I didn’t quite get it right when, 12 days ago, I wrote: ‘There is a…
China’s Belt and Road to Damascus
There is, it seems, no regime too odious to be a partner of China. Being repressive and corrupt have long…
Why we need bullfighting
Which US state will be first to legalize bullfighting? OK, I need to qualify the question. A few bloodless corridas were…
Will Dr Fauci ever take responsibility for COVID’s emergence?
Listening to the testy exchange between Sen. Rand Paul and St — er, Dr Anthony Fauci the other day, I couldn’t…
The People’s Republic of Westralia: where nut jobs rule
The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Curtin…
Boris could make devolution reform his legacy – if he has the ambition
Today marks two years since Boris Johnson accepted Her Majesty’s invitation to serve as her fourteenth Prime Minister. His tenure…
Is Boris Johnson allowed to pick the next Archbishop of Canterbury?
A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson was shirty with me when I asked him whether he was now…
Labour is picking the wrong fight with Priti Patel
The position of Home Secretary Priti Patel is clearly untenable. Presumably this means she must resign. Who says so? Why,…
We conspiracists, we happy few
What makes America America? An answer available to most of us is our shared dedication to the principles of liberty…
Apologies to journalists, but some of us are just clueless
Imprisoned Saudi writer Raif bin Muhammad Badawi was on my mind this week, as he often is when questions of free speech…
The rise of the noble liar
For four years the mainstream media kept a tally of every lie President Trump ever told. Fact-checkers like the Washington…
The monsters we become
Nietzsche would have been great at Twitter. He excelled at epigrams, which are to philosophy as the fortune-cookie motto is…
Free speech dies in quarantine
Last week the British provocateuse Katie Hopkins was deported from Australia to Britain, an ironical inversion of our colonial history…
Brown study
Here at The Spectator Australia, we work tirelessly to keep you up to date on developments concerning the great institutions…
Australian notes
Special Drawing Rights: one step closer to world government Even among this journal’s well-informed readers, how many have heard of,…
The Greeks
What a time of captivity, what a time of plague. The Disney musical Frozen, long delayed by the mammoth Melbourne…
Aussie Life
It used to be that sporting endeavour was regarded as a noble cause, and that our sporting pastimes were governed…
