Victoria Police, RUOK?
Victoria Police – not content with their heavy handed enforcement of Covid-19 restrictions – are now trolling the public on…
The great Liberal death wish
How much can a koala bear? Well, we’ll soon find out in New South Wales as the Nationals are threatening…
People trust the media less than Trump on COVID. Here’s why
The national media is now less trusted than President Trump to provide accurate information and analysis about COVID-19, according to…
It’s hard to see a way through the Brexit deadlock
The drama has ramped up again in the Brexit talks. At today’s meeting of the Joint Committee on the Northern…
No, Boris isn’t breaching the rule of law. Here’s why
Does the government threaten the ‘rule of law’ by asking parliament to vote its way out of a Brexit treaty?…
The EU’s bizarre new climate change targets
In recent years, governments have increasingly opted to legislate to ensure they do the things they say they are going…
Introducing Spectator TV, with Andrew Neil
Last week, we launched Spectator TV with The Week in 60 Minutes. Hosted by Andrew Neil and featuring James Forsyth,…
Boris’s latest coronavirus crackdown is a sign of things to come
Boris Johnson confirmed in his coronavirus press conference yesterday that gatherings will be restricted to a maximum of six people from Monday onwards.…
The competing theories that will decide Brexit
One thing is keeping the temperature among Tory MPs in check: the government’s poll lead. It’s hard to claim that…
India and China are on a path to war
The foreign ministers of China and India, Wang Yi and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, will meet today on the sidelines of a…
Nobody expected the Transgender Inquisition
Nobody expected the Transgender Inquisition! Nonetheless, it is well and truly underway. Tasmanian Liberal Claire Chandler last week warned the…
There’s no koala crisis in NSW, just the Liberal left’s shameful shopping for soft green votes
Our Black Summer proved two things beyond doubt: The unprecedented fires were a consequence of the unprecedented accumulation of explosive…
It’s almost as if the Academy focus-grouped how to make the public hate the Oscars more
I will continue to not watch the Academy Awards after it was announced this week that inclusion, rather than artistic…
Our threatening K-shaped corona recovery
Australia is emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown measures not as one, but two separate nations comprised of the economic, cultural…
Could the Lords reject Boris’s Brexit bill?
A senior Tory tells me the House of Lords will turn the Salisbury-Addison convention – which says the upper house…
Where is honesty in the discussion around male suicide?
Enough. Enough excuses. Enough avoidance. And enough of the pitiful pretence that throwing money at mental health is going to…
Hollywood’s transrace hypocrisy
It is an article of fashionable faith that genetic differences in sex are meaningless and malleable, but genetic differences in…
The Oscars’ woke McCarthyism is a step too far
Normally the best response to political correctness at the Oscars is to laugh at it. Whether it’s Lady Gaga singing…
Starmer needs more than just competence
Keir Starmer went back to what he most enjoys at Prime Minister’s Questions: calling the government incompetent and demanding that…
Pakistan’s lockdown gamble appears to have paid off
Pakistan’s stock exchange isn’t typically seen as one of the world’s best, but in recent weeks it has outperformed almost…
Oxford’s vaccine delay has thrown the global race wide open
Even a politician as tenaciously optimistic as Matt Hancock was struggling to put any positive spin on it: the world…
The EU’s state aid hypocrisy
Another crucial period has begun in the Brexit saga. Boris Johnson has ruled out extending the transition stage beyond 1…
Israel is a true ally – it’s time Boris remembered that
Boris Johnson has described himself as ‘a passionate defender of Israel’ and, what’s more, ‘a life-long friend, admirer and supporter…
The increasing threat of delegated legislation – legislation put above the power of parliament
“It’s probably a bit unusual for me to be in agreement with the IPA,” said Labor Senator Kim Carr. “I…
Mental health: recognition, reaching out – and responsibility
That Australians’ attitudes to mental health have been transformed is true. That we need to further match increased actions to…
