We know Daniel Andrews has maimed Melbourne. He’s also wreaking ruin in the regions
The implementation of Victoria’s lockdown restrictions highlights the growing divide between Melbourne and regional Victoria. The Melbourne centric Victorian government…
Johnson tightens Covid rules
After weeks of speculation over the government’s new Covid restrictions grading system, the Prime Minister today announced the details. Addressing…
Spain’s bureaucracy may not survive Covid
Sancho Panza’s long-cherished ambition was to become a politician. He wanted to be installed as governor of an island; Don…
Australia should treat China as a political psychopath
Lowy Institute fellow Alan Dupont, CEO of geopolitical risk consultancy the Cognoscenti Group, commenting on China and our strained relations…
How likely are you to catch Covid on a plane?
It is little surprise to see the International Air Transport Association (IATA) claiming that the risk of catching Covid-19 on a…
How strict will the new Covid restrictions be?
I have a few points to make about the new three tier system to be announced today for restricting our…
Sales of The Spectator surge towards 100,000
When The Spectator returned furlough money during lockdown, we set ourselves a new target. Rather than take taxpayer subsidy, we’d try…
Sorry Gladys, time to go
“I have always put the public first”, Gladys Berejiklian told a media conference this afternoon, following shocking, explosive revelations at…
Daniel Andrews’ top mandarin turns out to be a lemon
The Secretary of the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet Chris Eccles, who resigned today, revelled in his position as…
Leftists can’t even define what a woman is, so how can they claim we’ve been short-changed by the budget?
Federal Budget week invariably results in a myriad of commentary about the focus of the budget and its winners and…
People taking responsibility in Danandrewstan? That’s dangerous
People taking responsibility in Danandrewstan? Things have just got very dangerous for Premier Daniel Andrews. Chris Eccles, the career bureaucrat…
Petitions are the new elections – if you’re Kevin Rudd
If you can’t win elections, what are your options? Will you sit back and accept democracy, or will you arrogantly…
Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist
Seattle In Max Frisch’s 1953 absurdist play The Fire Raisers, a well-off family in an unnamed town invites a man…
Were there any links between Cambridge Analytica, Russia and Brexit?
In July 2018, Elizabeth Denham – the woman in charge of enforcing the UK’s laws on data protection – appeared…
A development binge and budget fears cloud Canberra’s looming Legislative Assembly poll
With the ACT election six just days away, Canberrans, however deep their Labor loyalties, are beginning –just — to realise…
How to win your campus elections: a guide
It’s election season on Australian university campuses. So you want to be elected as a student representative at your university’s student association…
A republic – or Krazy King Kev?
Malcolm Turnbull, Kevin Rudd, and Peter FitzSimons all fancy themselves Australia’s next king. Not as a constitutional monarch with limited…
On this International Day of the Girl Child, we must condemn the insidious violence of sex-selective abortion
Today is the International Day of the Girl Child, an opportunity to address the unique challenges girls face around the…
Covid has not ‘overwhelmed’ French hospitals — yet
Britain is often said to be two weeks behind France in the new Covid wave — so how bad are…
Peta Credlin stood up for accountability. We don’t know about Twitter has-beens, but that’s what all good journos do
Forget that a bungled hotel quarantine program led to the deaths of 800 largely helpless Victorians. The real scandal is…
Death of a feminist
I have written before about Hot for Teacher. The Van Halen guitar rock megahit was a touchstone for cultural norms…
Budget 2020: Government keeps feeding poison to the power system
The budget allocated $8.7 million to assist the Vales Point generator in New South Wales in a $100 million upgrade…
Speccie vs Stasiland
This week’s budget is a tale of Covid-induced devastation. Instead of being Back in the Black, there is a deficit…
Brown study
I suppose two fundamental departures from traditional Liberal party positions in a week or so is about par for the…
