Mob justice is no justice
It doesn’t matter how good your intentions are, it’s your process that counts. The push to topple a statue of…
JK Rowling and the road to terfdom
The tale of JK Rowling, finally revealed as a modern-day witch guilty of wickedness over sex and gender, is one…
How the evil, wicked plastic bag became a corona fighter
It is not often that an identified Public Enemy Number One actually becomes a Superhero. And it took a pandemic…
Facts are irrelevant now
‘This is the excellent foppery of the world…’ — Edmund in King Lear (Act 1, Scene 2), Shakespeare. In an…
Would Joe Biden defund the police?
Thanks to the nature of digital media, the last 10 days can be seen in entirely different ways. On one…
The coronavirus crisis we never needed to have
We can’t blame our leaders for being caught off-guard by the coronavirus; we all were. We can, however, hold our…
What the response to London’s young graffiti cleaners reveals
Further Black Lives Matter protests took place yesterday in the UK, in response to the death of a man at…
What is it about Chinese totalitarianism that makes clever people so silly?
There is something about Chinese totalitarianism which brings out the silliness of many clever people. I suspect it is to…
So it was a weapon?
You read it first on The Spectator Australia on March 23, 2020. I outlined all the viruses over the past…
What Bibi wants to do in the West Bank is not annexation
Fifty-three years ago today, Israel was fighting for its survival. In a larger sense, that doesn’t make it all that…
Many happy returns of the day, Your Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning British monarch on September 9, 2015, when she surpassed the reign of her great-great-grandmother…
Defund the police? Whatever could go wrong?
“Off the pigs!” OK, I confess: back in my wild youth, this was an oft-heard phrase rolling off my lips.…
Why I joined today’s protest
The protest in Manchester today was supposed to be static and socially distanced. While that may not have worked out…
The march of progressive censorship
It’s official: criticising Black Lives Matter is now a sackable offence, even here in the British Isles, thousands of miles…
Boris Johnson needs to get a grip
It’s pointless to deny that the government is currently performing poorly across a wide range of fronts – and I…
Science, doubt and the ‘second wave’ of Covid
In taking a position on an issue, most of us like to think that we accumulate evidence, consider the pros…
Can Shinzo Abe’s Covid bung save the Japanese PM?
I experienced a novel, if fleeting, sensation last week when I was struck with a powerful urge to vote for…
The ABC of protesting
Come along, it will be a riot. Here is the story that proves once and for all that the Staff…
Where’s wisdom gone?
At what point did the West, including Australia, abandon common sense and reason in favour of decision-making worthy of the…
Latham’s law
Doomsday to the left of me, doomsday to the right Maybe the social distancing has gone too far. It seems…
Brown study
The Liberal party certainly had a close shave in getting rid of Malcolm Turnbull before the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic hit…
ScoMo’s flawed Hawke fantasy
It is not the Liberal way to go chasing a consensus of vested interests
