The racism pandemic is nothing but rehashed Marxist class warfare
You have no doubt noticed over the past few years – but accelerating wildly and widely in the last one…
Tough love: don’t be a fake
This is the first of a regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and…
Orban and Salvini’s plan to ‘make Europe great again’
Change is coming in the European Parliament. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish leader Mateusz Morawiecki, and Italian Lega party…
The rise of racist fonts
So many headlines over the last year have read more like deadpan satire than actual news that it’s hard to…
Christine Holgate is a victim of Scott Morrison’s lack of principle, not her gender
My take on the current Christine Holgate saga is a bit pendulum-like. I thought, and think, that the furore over…
The perpetual pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic was a black-swan event the likes of which this planet hadn’t seen in almost a hundred years.…
The SNP’s England obsession
There is a whiff of something in the current Scottish Parliament elections. It’s not quite strong enough to call it…
Inconvenient truths about impoverished women and privileged men
Women, women, women. Aren’t you sick to death of hearing about women? Endless bleating about women’s tough lives, whining about…
What’s the problem with Apu?
Remember Apu, the kindly Indian shopkeeper from The Simpsons? Well, in the time since most people have stopped watching that…
Is the UK taking advantage of its vaccine success?
UK GDP ever so slightly edged up in February, growing 0.4 per cent according to today’s update from the Office…
David Cameron has done nothing wrong
To paraphrase the old adage, truth can still be pulling on its boots when a misconception is already half way…
Crime and no punishment in Minneapolis
So far in the 2020s, American citizens have been hectored endlessly about wearing masks, staying safe indoors and standing apart…
Now even Nick Clegg turns on Brussels
The last four months have not been a happy time for those in power in Brussels. The unedifying squabbles over…
Christine Holgate: the latest cannon fodder for the left’s misogyny narrative
In Senate Estimates hearings today Christine Holgate said she was “humiliated” by Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Therefore, apparently, he is confirmed…
How the West can respond to Putin’s military build-up
In the last few weeks, Russia has been flaunting its military build-up in and around Ukraine, sending 20,000 extra troops,…
Black real estate matters
SpecOz readers would have seen yesterday’s reports about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors and her real estate binge-buying, which…
The problem with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s war on obesity
With his little round spectacles and earnest expression, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is the Penfold to Jamie Oliver’s Dangermouse. Both men have…
Aboriginal imprisonment: don’t confuse a social issue with a justice issue
Those who insist that too many indigenous people are in jail confuse a social issue with a justice issue, and…
Biden backs extending regulation of fentanyl ‘lookalikes’
As the pandemic accelerated, an epidemic seemed to recede from headlines. But it did not stop. More than 40 states reported an…
Fourth time lucky with Victorian hotel quarantine?
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Last Thursday, the Victorian government restarted its Covid hotel quarantine program. This is the fourth…
Biden is wrong on Putin
I am no fan of Trump, but what Joe Biden said in a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos made me…
Why Merkel’s party is backing a political lightweight to replace her
The run-up to the German federal elections in September was supposed to be dull and predictable. Merkel would name a…
Israel’s shadow war with Iran explodes into ‘nuclear terrorism’
If time flows at an even pace, then history does not. Joe Biden may still be new in the job,…
Shirley Williams: a woman apart
Shirley Williams, the Liberal Democrat politician, died peacefully at her home this morning, aged 90. In 2009, our columnist Matthew Parris reviewed her…
The UK’s vaccine roll-out has ended the Brexit debate
The country would remain implacably divided for a generation, with Remain and Leave replacing class and geography as the new…
