Keir Starmer needs a reshuffle to win back the Blue Wall
The most important fact about British politics is also the most mundane: the next general election is an awfully long…
The ten worst Covid data failures
Throughout the pandemic, the government and its scientific advisers have made constant predictions, projections and illustrations regarding the behaviour of…
Why Danandrewstan remains a disaster zone, in 15 words
Well, whaddya know? Danandrestan didn’t open up further today because of the latest clusterfuck involving its health bureaucracy, that group…
Did a lack of diversity in the commentary box spoil your grand final too?
It was difficult to sit through the AFL grand final knowing all the television commentators were white. I had been…
We have a crisis of good governance – and it’s not just in Victoria
As weeks go, the one just past has been a shocker — and not just for Victorians still in the…
What the ACT election results tell us about our rulers in the Bubble
Last weekend’s ACT election results have again revealed how out of touch our nation’s capital city is with mainstream Australians.…
Why is the Republican party symbol an elephant and the Democratic symbol a donkey?
Political animals Why is the Republican party symbol an elephant and the Democratic symbol a donkey? Both go back to…
The path between herd immunity and lockdown
In four decades working as an engineer and scientist, I have rarely known a more polarised time within the scientific…
EXCLUSIVE: Are the ADF’s pandemic operations breaching its own guidelines?
The Spectator Australia has seen a copy of the Defence Department’s un-redacted Defence Assistance to the Civil Community manual which…
Professor Sutton’s curious memory
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton is the public face of Covid-19 in the Lockdown State. It is Professor Sutton…
Euro notes
Half-hearted Tory Spare a thought for the UK’s embattled lamb producers. How long will it be, they are wondering, until…
Hippocrates cancelled
Health bureaucrats and actively complicit doctors are now guilty of crimes against humanity
Cashless in Alice
Income Management and the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) have long faced opposition from those who claim that not allowing welfare…
Musical notes
Trumps like us, baby we were born to run Mr Bruce Springsteen has, depending on how one views these things,…
Orson Welles
The journals of the plague year from the point of view of culture are getting weirder and weirder from Daniel…
Opera Australia’s Attila before shutdown in March
Attila the Hun might have been hard to stop but Verdi’s opera Attila was stopped in its tracks at the…
Aussie Life & Language
Michael Scammell Coming out of Melbourne lockdown is like coming down from drugs. Or more precisely coming down from the…
Low life
My last NHS scan showed a shadow on a rib. The scan report couldn’t decide between a new cancer metastasis…
