The getting real we had to have
Something had to happen, it couldn’t go on forever. Coronavirus was unplanned but it will turn our world upside down.…
What doesn’t Adam Bandt get about social distancing?
Adam Bandt wants the Morrison government to emulate the Tories and pay workers who have lost their jobs because of…
Recalibrate Australia
All pay rises for public servants to be frozen until after the pandemic is over! Shock horror! Hospitality industry unions…
Brown study
As you know, the Spectator Australia Social Research Unit, operating behind heavily fortified premises in Canberra, has long been involved…
Wu flu notes
My Coronavirus hell Many of you will be wondering what it’s like to get the coronavirus – aka Wu Flu,…
Australian notes
Everybody loves borders now What do Justin Trudeau, Jacinda Ardern, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the crazier fringe of the Greens party (here…
Euro notes
Tories in the time of Coronavirus Who would have thought until a few weeks ago that Boris Johnson’s success over…
Simon Collins
I began my self-quarantine last week, after returning from London, but it wasn’t until five days later that the symptoms…
Christos Tsiolkas
This was not the ideal beach book for the Christmas holidays but now we are in different times, it has…
China has stripped us bare
As our economy teeters, the communists are poised to strike. Instead make them pay
Red or dead
There was a basket of thick red wool and two pairs of large knitting needles at the start of University…
Low Life
This Provençal village clusters around the base of a cliff 300 feet high and a kilometre wide surmounted by two…
Fame is a fickle food
Good writing about celebrity is scant. It has few poets, because it takes depth to go truly shallow (I’d nominate…
Barometer
Time out When did British workers start being ‘furloughed’? The word furlough is first recorded in the English language in…
2447: No small matter solution
BIG, the solution at 21D, can be associated with the ten unclued lights. First prize Elizabeth Shorter, St Austell, CornwallRunners-up…
Georgia on my mind
The film you want to see this week that you mightn’t have seen if you weren’t stuck at home is…
Tech to plug in to while you’re self-isolating
For the past 12 years, Roger Alton and I have shared this half page like Box and Cox: he writes…
Letters
Covid questions Sir: I worry that Matt Ridley and others are trying to frighten us about Covid-19 (‘Like nothing we’ve…
Top salary sacrifices now might avert a backlash later
The CBI’s guidelines on ‘best practice for business’ during the pandemic tell the 1,500 larger companies that make up the…
