Our schools already let too many children down before this year of disruption. Where to from here?
Could there be a more depressing statement about parents’ confidence in Australian schooling than a recent proposal that people invest…
Their ABC, their salaries – and your right to know
It’s been a big 24 hours or so for British media watchers with the release of the BBC’s annual report…
Is liberalism really a mental illness?
Conservative pundits like Michael Savage and Mark Dice like to ruffle feathers by claiming that liberalism is a mental disorder.…
Can democracy survive an increasingly biased media?
The ACCC is seeking to force Google and Facebook to pay for the media content they redistribute which has led…
A tighter lockdown could be two weeks away
Significant further restrictions on our freedom to mix with people, in social or work settings, could be introduced in a…
J.K. Rowling’s latest novel isn’t ‘transphobic’
The object of a slanderer is to blacken the name of his target so thoroughly everything she says and does…
The thinking behind Pompeo’s Middle East mission
Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming Democratic…
Ankara’s aggression has spurred a most unlikely pact
The monumental accords being signed in Washington between Israel, the UAE and Bahrain represent a new era in Israeli peacemaking.…
Are we becoming immune to the vaccine message?
Much hope is being pinned to a vaccine as our route out of this Covid nightmare. But even if one…
Tory faith in Boris is wavering
Having won that 80 seat majority for his party in December, it is really quite an achievement by Boris Johnson…
‘If you don’t want to be kicked in the head, don’t put your head under a jackboot. It’s not only selfish, it’s stupid.’
Drongo alert: what follows is satire. Victorian strongman Daniel Andrews yesterday dismissed anger over the state’s harsh lockdown as a…
How shinybum corona craziness has just widened the city-country divide
Little has illustrated the divide between urban and regional Australia quite like the events of 2020. I feel reasonably qualified…
Farage could still come back to haunt the Tories on Brexit
Some Tory MPs are worried about a strategy that the party is apparently seriously considering adopting at the next general…
China’s Commiebrige Analytica
China’s Overseas Key Individual Database leak. Call this the Commiebridge Analytica: Tens of thousands of Australians — including celebrities, politicians…
Anna and The Fly – a parable
Once upon a time there was a girl called Anna who lived in a lovely sunny house with a view…
The Democrats after Biden
There’s been lots of speculation, even in The Spectator, about the direction of the Republican party after Trump. But less…
Pompeo: Biden will give ‘hundreds of billions of dollars to a theocratic, corrupt regime’
Washington DC Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned on Monday that if Joe Biden wins the November elections, an incoming…
Luvvies, be careful what you wish for
The saying goes, “be careful what you wish for”. Most people want a fairer, non–judgemental world for the future, but in reality when…
Has Boris done enough to halt the Tory rebellion?
Boris Johnson has just been speaking in the Commons as the government tries to quell the Tory revolt over the…
What David Attenborough’s ‘Extinction: The Facts’ didn’t tell you
It was only a matter of time before Covid-19 got swept up into the wider narrative of humans facing impending…
Why didn’t the EU punish Germany when it broke international law?
Boris Johnson’s proposal to break international law ‘in a specific and limited way’ has sparked uproar. But do you remember…
Meet Japan’s new PM – installed by a grey coup of party insiders
There’s a good chance that nothing that occurs in the new Japanese PM’s tenure will be nearly as interesting as how…
Does Trump deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
Should Donald Trump be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? So far the President has notched up two nominations in a…
Je Suis Charlie and the legacy of jihadism
‘You have insulted the prophet – we are al-Qaida Yemen.’ These words, terrifying yet clichéd, were spat at a female…
Victorians are wising up: Dictator Dan is a Dictator Dud
Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 and the strategies used by the dictator Big Brother to subjugate citizens and enforce control will…
