Downing Street is clueless on Scottish independence
It has been pointed out before that the SNP and the Scottish Conservatives have something of a symbiotic relationship. Bitterly…
Teaching unions shouldn’t be defining ‘transphobia’
A year of disrupted schooling means there are plenty of issues facing our schools right now. But delegates at last week’s…
Woke@work – and joyless, mistrustful, dispiriting and dreary
Just as I was celebrating the fact that in ditching Turnbull from the ridiculous New South Wales climate job the…
The West’s shameful Iranian capitulation
On a sweltering day in July 2018, German police pulled over a scarlet Ford S-Max hire car that was travelling…
Simon McCoy’s warning shot to the Beeb
It was just a fortnight ago that the BBC’s grumpiest new presenter Simon McCoy announced he was off to join…
When we are old: dignity in aged care
Over the last year, a huge proportion of the residents in the aged care facilities around our country did not…
Captain America versus… Jordan Peterson?
The progressives’ latest offering of ‘woker-tainment’ shows they are more interested in political posturing than creating beautiful or meaningful art. …
Jim Molan determined to win the fight of his life
There are times when a battle needs to be fought and mates need to stand up and be counted. Many…
Dan’s days may be numbered, but beware his legacy
Speculation has now commenced as to the future leadership of Premier Daniel Andrews given his slow progress in recovering from…
Prince Philip’s best public encounters
Prince Philip’s death on Friday has led to an outpouring of tributes over the weekend, often prompted by personal recollections…
The Lib Dems’ campaigning loophole
Following the sad news on Friday of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey tweeted out his condolences writing…
Britain sees world’s sharpest fall in Covid cases
At the Spectator’s data hub, updated daily, we keep track of the situation here and around the world. There have…
Salmond and Galloway are the worst of both worlds
The death of the Duke of Edinburgh has paused campaigning in the Scottish Parliament election, which provides an opportunity to…
Ignorant new puritans are out to purge our poetry
It was the by-line that caught my eye “The whole canon is being erased”, or at least that’s how I…
Can Spain’s Europhilism last?
‘Suppose a man be carried, whilst fast asleep, into a room where there is a person he longs to see…
Why I’m worried about the teenage cancer generation
As I sit here writing this, it’s just over one year ago since the first lockdown was imposed, without which…
Momentum’s cunning plan would keep the Tories in power forever
Momentum, the Labour campaign group dedicated to keeping Corbynism alive, this week demanded that Keir Starmer commit to introducing a…
The federal government didn’t kill university arts departments. Try cultural Marxism
In a defence of arts and humanities departments in the Nine newspapers last week that flagged concerns about their survival,…
Spectator Australia TV – how much longer will the corona craziness continue?
It’s been just over a year since the Wuhan coronavirus changed the world as we know it. Back then, only…
Prince Philip, climate sceptic, already spinning in his grave
Prince Philip was a climate change sceptic. In correspondence to Spectator Australia contributor and author Ian Plimer back in 2018,…
Malcolm Pantsdown
First up, congratulations to Premier Gladys Berejiklian for, presumably, being the one to hit the ‘Eject’ button on the appointment…
Latham’s law
The demonisation of men Much of the current political campaign about women is actually an expression of Left-feminist hatred of…
Lockdowns are the opiate of champagne socialists
On Covid-19 responses and their disastrous consequences
