Senseless in Seattle
If you wanted any more evidence as to the decay of Western Civilisation, then you need only to consider the…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Vladimir Putin’s history fetish
Russia, the old joke goes, has long been a country with an unpredictable past. On September 22, 1939, for instance,…
What would Thatcher do?
No one seems to think Boris Johnson has handled this crisis particularly well. But who might have done a better…
The proud, progressive record of the Bandtifa and Indigenous representation in parliament. Not
1971: Neville Bonner, an elder of the Jagera people, is appointed by the Queensland parliament to fill a Liberal casual…
Yay!
‘The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds,’ read the headline…
Latham’s law
In the leftist jihad against laughter, an important point has been overlooked. For as long as anyone can remember, the…
Cold war notes
In a truly excellent article in the Australian, Stephen Loosley reminded us – in my case rather appropriately – of…
Australian notes
Is it racism or the obsession with racism that is costing indigenous lives? Where’s the outrage regarding the high death…
Dystopian notes
Albion is toast Australia: will you take me? You’ve always been high on my list of escape destinations when everything…
Simon Collins
Like most Speccie readers I am anxious to give public vent to my outrage at police brutality, institutional racism and…
Laughing Child by John Brack
In a futile attempt at participating in the current cultural revolution, I tried to suffer ‘harm and offence’ from an…
Aussie Life
90 Days in lockdown – a retrospective Day 1 – you configure your bathroom into a replica of your…
High life
Oh, to be in America, where cultural decay and self-destruction compete equally with hyper-feminist and anti-racist agendas. Gone with the…
Real life
Opting out of organ donation was one of the hardest things I’ve done in a while. I don’t mean the…
Dear Mary
Q. I know it is rude to ask, when invited to a dinner party, ‘who else is coming?’ I assumed,…
The joy of proving my wife wrong
Back in April, The Spectator ran a feature in which the partners of regular contributors wrote about what it was…
A wing – and a prayer
Drive-through restaurants were invented so Americans could spend more time in their cars. I don’t blame them. American cars are…
