In the bleak midwinter
As autumn fades and the final leaves fall, the bitter winds of winter loom. Cold hearts of powerful people begin…
The questions Matt Hancock still has to answer
Matt Hancock’s approach to Dominic Cummings’s allegations has been to come out fighting. He believes he has spent most of today…
How the national curriculum abolishes Australian citizenship
The draft national curriculum for schools is seeking to teach the next generation of Australians a progressive and utopian view of…
Making up history with the Biden White House
Journalists gleefully declared on Wednesday that the Biden administration was ‘making history’ by sending White House deputy press secretary Karine…
Biden’s tax plan spells bad news for Ireland
Biden’s America, of course, is all about re-engaging with the world after four years of isolationism. But if you are…
Westminster must stop Sturgeon’s separatist empire-building
It is so rare to see a Conservative push back against devolution creep that I didn’t believe my eyes at…
Batley Grammar and the triumph of the mob
Here’s the depressing truth about the Batley Grammar controversy: the mob has won. Angry protesters who gathered at the school…
The EU has learnt nothing from Brexit
This is Brexit all over again. The Swiss government yesterday pulled the plug on its seven-year negotiation of the EU-Swiss…
New poll reveals public anger at China over Covid
This week’s Spectator cover article examines China’s role in the origins of the Covid virus. With many of the early decisions about the…
Covid deaths in context
What would have been your overall chances of dying in the first 19 weeks of 2021 compared with recent years?…
Comment is free, but facts are sacred
The machine of left-wing activism has gone into a panic with a decade of propaganda starting to unravel. Public patience…
Is the daily drip of Covid statistics still helpful?
It is hard to remember a time when the daily drip of Covid statistics was not part of our lives.…
ScoMo goes troppo
Many Spectator Australia readers will recall the way Paul Keating taunted John Hewson in the lead up to the 1993…
‘I was treated like a traitor’: An interview with WHO whistleblower Francesco Zambon
Francesco Zambon is calling the World Health Organisation (WHO) to account. Zambon, who was based at the WHO’s Venice bureau,…
Incompetence abounds in Victoria – but I feel fully reassured
Having spent another 40 minutes of my life this morning — time I won’t get back — listening to senior…
It’s time to give up sex. Thanks feminism
Earlier this week, New South Wales unveiled huge changes to the definition of consent. The new affirmative consent model could…
Jacqui Lambie said what?
Imagine the furore if a Coalition parliamentarian told a Qantas staff member “your CEO is a poof”. Imagine the fury…
It’s bad enough in Danandrewstan without lockdown
When Victorian Treasurer, Tim Pallas delivered his budget last week, he spoke of a Victoria defined by relief and joy.…
Sorry Labor, but the gig economy is alive and well
There’s a lot of excitement coming from the union movement and the usual suspects among the commentariat over the recent ‘Deliveroo’ decision.…
Will Cummings’s accusations damage Boris Johnson?
One of Dominic Cummings’s strengths as a campaigner was his genius for a clear message – think ‘Take Back Control’…
Dominic Cummings’s explosive claim about the Bank of England
Amidst all the explosive claims made by Dominic Cummings during today’sselect committee hearing, one towards the beginning of the seven-hour…
John Cena’s car-crash Taiwan apology
In an unforgivably cringeworthy mea culpa delivered in surprisingly fluent Mandarin, John Cena has apologized to his fans in China. He had…
Cummings, Covid and groupthink – a cautionary tale
It is hard to deny the importance of the issues raised this week by Dominic Cummings. His decision to identify…
‘We failed’: Dominic Cummings’s evidence, as it happened
Dominic Cummings has given evidence to a joint meeting of the science and technology select committees about the government’s response…
School playgrounds are no place for ‘free Palestine’ protests
GCSE and A level assessments. Enforcing social distancing. Catch-up provision for pupils who fell behind during lockdown. Mental health support.…
