Can ‘Teflon Trump’ survive his biggest challenge yet?
At the beginning of the year, the odds on president Donald Trump winning re-election this November were 60-40 in his…
Is Britain’s coronavirus response bogged down in bureaucracy?
The NHS has rightly been praised for its response to coronavirus. But it still isn’t quite the model of efficiency it…
Learning from lockdown
Like all parents of school-aged children in my state, I recently received an email from the Education Department letting me…
Let’s get this straight: COVIDSafe is grossly flawed
The take-up of the government’s COVIDSafe app has been truly remarkable, with over two million downloads in the first two…
China has been playing us for mugs
Number two in Craig Kelly’s series 20 reasons why the Wuhan Flu is the final nail in the climate alarmists’…
Coronavirus: advice for the perplexed and bewildered
Are you bewitched, bothered and bewildered about how to deal with the coronavirus? Be not dismayed; you are not alone.…
What Biden’s recent endorsers said about Kavanaugh and #MeToo
Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer for Joe Biden, claimed in an interview last month that the former vice president…
Rebuild muscle, not flab
In order to kill corona-wasps in the ceiling, politicians have knocked our economic house down. Now they dream of rebuilding…
Is Harbin China’s new Wuhan?
Only three New Yorkers had died when Han, a 22-year-old masters student at NYU, caught a plane back to China.…
Are we now in a Fourth Turning Crisis?
Back in 1997, William Strauss and Neil Howe released The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy that articulated a roughly 80-year…
Boris is right to talk about the coronavirus as a mugger
Is the SARS-CoV-2 virus comparable to a man who accosts you in the street and tries to steal your phone…
Biden offers no change and no hope
For too long, Republicans and the media refused to take Joe Biden seriously as a presidential candidate. It’s hard to…
How New Zealand won its fight with coronavirus
A milestone was reached today when New Zealand became the first country to declare that all community transmission of coronavirus…
COVID-19 vs the American spirit of resistance
If the coronavirus were as deadly as the bubonic plague, which killed about a third of the population of Europe…
Why Germany is reluctant to bail out Italy
The European Union has done it again. Last Thursday, member states agreed on an aid package of more than half…
The PVO merry-go-round
If you were to open up Peter Van Onselsen’s brain and have a look around, you would find scrambled egg. …
The Planet of the Humans: Moore vs Gore and the renewables recidivists
Michael Moore’s The Planet of the Humans is currently one of the top trending videos on YouTube. Just in time…
Are the Trump outrage merchants drunk on their own hand sanitiser?
Have we all really become that stupid? Has it really come to this? Have we all lost the ability to…
Chris Cuomo’s coronavirus circus
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has perfected COVID-19 performance art. While other attention seekers declare proudly that they’re ‘pretty sure’ they…
Even the left don’t want Turnbull
Poor Malcolm Turnbull. The Liberals don’t want him; he may even be expelled from the party for being such…
Kim Jong-un: dead or alive?
Yet again the news from Pyongyang is both disconcerting and vague. Yet again North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is rumoured…
The radical history of The Spectator
A newspaper – it would be more than 100 years before it became a magazine – calling itself a spectator…
I’m sick of being told what to read in lockdown
Feeling some pressure to write is one thing; being told what to read is quite another. On social media there…
Germany’s coronavirus crisis may have just revealed Merkel’s successor
Like her or not, Angela Merkel has managed Germany’s response to the coronavirus pandemic commendably. The long-time chancellor usually appears…
Everyone thinks they’re a great writer when corona cabin fever strikes
Pandemic Poetry On isolation How the hell do you spell pendemic anyway? Maybe I should use a thesaurus, no that…
