Work from home is here to stay – and a productivity boom is about to be unleashed

10 March 2021 1:30 pm

The global energy giant BP has told around 25,000 of its staff that working from home is now permanent. This is…

Did the Palace really want a freckly ranga?

10 March 2021 11:30 am

Playing the race card with young Archie was one of the inevitabilities of the Meghan and Harry Spectacular. The question…

UK slams EU over ‘completely false’ vaccine claims

10 March 2021 10:02 am

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has blasted claims by a senior Eurocrat that the UK is hampering the bloc’s vaccine rollout,…

The Royal response to Harry and Meghan is too little, too late

10 March 2021 6:28 am

They are 61 words that have taken more than 36 hours to hone. An ancient institution delaying action while a global…

Breaking: Piers Morgan leaves Good Morning Britain

10 March 2021 5:36 am

Oh dear. It’s been a difficult day for Piers Morgan who stormed off set after fellow presenter Alex Beresford accused him of ‘absolutely diabolical’…

Unmask our kids

10 March 2021 4:00 am

There certainly were a few revelations for the Australian public in 2020. The complete dominance of state Premiers and governments,…

Rishi Sunak’s real opponent

10 March 2021 2:01 am

Things are starting to get more awkward for Rishi Sunak — something the Chancellor has long been prepared for. He…

How worried should we be about a third wave?

10 March 2021 1:06 am

At the beginning of the year, Boris Johnson and his advisers were at pains to tell us that by spring…

Justice for Derek Chauvin

10 March 2021 12:38 am

As I write, jury selection for the murder trial of Derek Chauvin is about to begin in Minneapolis. You remember…

Covid kids’ book pulped after China complains

10 March 2021 12:02 am

World Book Day was last Thursday and now a leading German publisher has belatedly marked the occasion by pulping copies…

Corruption affects everything in Palestine – even vaccines

9 March 2021 9:58 pm

Visit certain parts of the West Bank and you’ll encounter mansions owned by senior officials in the Palestinian Authority (PA).…

The royal family is in a perilous position

9 March 2021 8:03 pm

Whatever you think of the Sussex saga, it’s clear that Buckingham Palace are waking up to more uncomfortable reading this…

What will a Mark McGowan landslide mean for religious freedom?

9 March 2021 7:35 pm

This Saturday, West Australians go to the polls. All the indications are that the McGowan Labor government will be re-elected…

It’s time to take Britain’s Incel terror threat seriously

9 March 2021 6:15 pm

Far-right and Islamist extremism are both cause for concern in Britain today. But there’s another threat which all too often…

Meghan and Harry: Ultimate Survivors

9 March 2021 6:12 pm

Poor Meghan and Harry. Forget surviving wars, famines and droughts, even the ravages of the long-running Survivor television show. Are…

Who’s cashing in on the ‘climate emergency’?

9 March 2021 6:00 pm

‘The climate transition presents a historic investment opportunity,’ says BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. ‘What the financiers, the big banks, the…

Labour has stumbled into the royal culture war

9 March 2021 5:45 pm

Given Starmer’s aim of getting red wall voters back on side, Labour should not have touched the Harry and Meghan…

Neither age nor bureaucracy will condemn them: Anzac marches must be on

9 March 2021 1:41 pm

Barring further acts of political cowardice, Australians will commemorate Anzac Day 2021 as they have done for almost 106 years.…

Megan and Harry: don’t say we (or Mark Latham, actually) didn’t warn you

9 March 2021 11:30 am

Mark Latham, The Spectator Australia, 26 May 2018: The former NSW Premier Neville Wran had an interesting take on the…

Can Boris sustain his royal silence?

9 March 2021 4:32 am

Boris Johnson is clearly determined to avoid being dragged into this Harry and Meghan story. At his press conference this afternoon,…

Fact check: did Harry and Meghan have a secret wedding?

9 March 2021 4:05 am

Oh dear. Not content with having claimed that baby Archie was denied his rightful title, last night’s interview with the…

Fighting over chips: why Taiwan matters

9 March 2021 4:00 am

Throughout the course of human history, there have been wars over land, water, food, commodities and even pride. Unless there…

Minister’s Sussex snub

9 March 2021 3:06 am

What does No. 10 think about Harry and Meghan’s Palace intrigue? Perhaps we can glean some insight from the comments…

Why isn’t Archie a prince?

9 March 2021 1:10 am

Viewers watching Harry and Meghan’s interview with Oprah on CBS last night were treated to a host of bombshells on…

Harry and Meghan have played a blinder

9 March 2021 12:39 am

If bouquets and Bollinger were winging their way to Montecito last night they were well deserved. When Harry and Meghan…