So much green globalist garbage – and now comes the last straw
The G7 conference has become an excuse for politicians to engage in an arms race of climate policies designed to…
Are we resigned to an early election?
After talk of an early election began in earnest in late January, polling suggested a majority of Australians were opposed…
Greenslade pours oil on Troubles waters
After resigning as a visiting professor at City University in March after admitting to supporting IRA terrorists in the 1970s, Roy Greenslade has…
The cost of delaying ‘freedom day’
When Boris Johnson announced that unlocking would be guided by ‘data not dates’ he handed detractors ample scope for derision…
Vaccine efficacy vs harms
Last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration announced Australia’s second death likely caused by blood clotting from the AstraZeneca vaccine. This took the total reports of cases of…
Dear ABC, how did this get broadcast
One of the best emails I get in my inbox (after Spectator’s Morning Shot, of course) is the Fourth Watch Newsletter…
Operation weakened borders
As Tony Abbott’s immigration minister, Scott Morrison had one job: stop the boats. Stop the boats he did. He made…
The president of platitudes
President Joe Biden turned up almost three hours late to his Nato press conference tonight. He offered no apology, because,…
Boris Johnson delays the end of lockdown
Boris Johnson has this evening confirmed that he will delay the lifting of all Covid restrictions by four weeks to…
Can Naftali Bennett’s anti-Bibi coalition survive?
Sunday saw a watershed moment in Israeli politics: Bibi Netanyahu was removed from power after 12 years, and his government…
Speaker blasts Boris again over lockdown announcement
The government has just suffered a further verbal drubbing for the way it announced it would be delaying the roadmap…
‘Insisting’ and ‘demanding’ will get us nowhere with China
How can America hold China to account? Its ruling party has committed human rights abuses and bears responsibility for the…
Shining a light on Dark Emu
Finally, the spurious claims of Bruce Pascoe are coming under serious scrutiny from a source more credible than those alleged hotbeds of racism, Quadrant or the Dark…
Twerking, Chicago and the decline of police power
A cellphone video surfaced in Chicago last week showing three African American women twerking on top of a slowly moving…
The lockdown delay has triggered a constitutional crisis
It is not the Battle of Marston Moor, but it strikes me that we are now in something of a…
What Tory MPs fear most about a lockdown delay
As Boris Johnson prepares to announce a four-week delay to the final stage out of lockdown, he faces a mixed reaction.…
Can Mike Pence win in 2024?
The vice presidency, as even the most remedial student of American politics will tell you, is not the most exciting…
The Australian public dis-service
Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld once quipped: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army…
The comic relief bombs as a nation waits for Dan Andrews’ return
Reports of Melbourne’s renowned theatres all being closed this weekend are false. A Daniel Andrews’s scripted tragicomedy Let’s Lock Up…
The whinging at Peta Credlin’s gong exposes the left’s double-standards
On the one hand, left feminists love to hurl tedious tantrums and screech that more women should be recognised in the Order of…
Andrew Neil’s opening GB News manifesto
At long last GB News is here. After months of speculation and excitement, the first national TV channel to launch…
The West’s Iron Ore Curtain and its electronic Stasi
Have you tried to travel interstate to Western Australia lately? If so, you would have been required to apply for a…
Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland problem
In an at times grouchy press conference, Boris Johnson tried to calm the row over the Northern Ireland protocol. The…
Why is the government so reluctant to give freedom back to citizens?
One year on, we are no further forward. We have a devastated industry, jobs lost and global Britain shut for…
Boris Johnson’s refusal to talk about faith
I am struggling to make sense of the Prime Minister’s answer to my question: whether he is a practising Roman…
