We can live just fine without ABC Life
Unlike many of you reading this, I find myself supportive of the concept of a public broadcaster. To my mind,…
Everything that ever happened in Australian history is very bad and must be stopped – now
There’s numpty — and there’s peak numpty. Numpty is the government wasting our money on something that never happened; marking…
Paying Bernie’s bills
In the magical socialist world of Bernie Sanders, everything is free – which means that someone else is paying for…
What the new nationalism means
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. For most of the past 200 years, the left, whether…
How to save the surplus
The Australian Embassy Recreational Club is a handsome, French colonial-era building with a swimming pool, manicured garden and extensive space…
Are we heading for a no-deal Brexit in January 2021?
There is a recurring and important phrase in the 36-page document published this morning setting out “the UK’s approach to…
Why isn’t Tony Abbott part of the bushfires royal commission – and other missing common sense
Common sense is certainly not common in Australia’s current political class. If we must have a bushfires royal commission, the…
What’s woke this week?
This week the dial on our woke-o-meter tried to keep up with the circular reasoning employed by professional offence takers…
The Greens mad monkey business
We believe it’s important SpecOz readers are across events and fully informed. Most of you would have heard how a…
Settling the science
So, if the news early last week was that Anthony Albanese refused to back future coal developments, it seems that…
Sanders, Trump and the populist juju
‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove…
Coronavirus could be ‘black swan event’ that costs Trump the presidency
Donald Trump is, as we know, a noted germophobe. It would be richly ironic, then, if he missed out on…
Why the #NeverBernie efforts fell flat in South Carolina
Last night, as expected, Bernie Sanders’s status as the front-runner invited a pile-on of attacks from the other candidates for…
Why are BBC dramas so obsessed with rewriting history?
If there was a Bafta award for Most Woke Television Drama, a BBC production would win every year hands down.…
Blair failed to save Labour from itself, so how can anyone else?
Tony Blair is at it again. With Labour members currently pondering who should replace Jeremy Corbyn, the party’s most electorally…
Why and how China secretly supports climate hysteria
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Climate hysteria…
Bless their hearts: every Democrat is a loser in South Carolina
Former South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg said at least one accurate thing in South Carolina on Tuesday night: ‘Russia doesn’t…
How is only teaching climate catastrophism in schools discussion and debate?
One of the central tenets of a worthwhile, rigorous and balanced education system is there is room for disagreement, discussion…
A bare knuckles fight between Bernie, Bloomberg and Trump
The Nevada caucuses confirm that Sen. Amy Klobuchar has clung to the ledge by her fingernails as long as she…
Revealed: the sickly state of the National Electricity Market
This year’s annual report from the regulatory collective that is the Energy Security Board awards itself gongs for overseeing a…
How coronavirus can save Hong Kong
The coronavirus has enforced a hiatus in Hong Kong’s widespread political unrest with worries about transmission stalling protests. Dissatisfaction with…
Pete Buttigieg is a slightly less gay version of Obama
On Valentine’s Day, Mayor Pete and his hus-bear Chasten managed to once again charm absolutely no one, barring a few…
Could Bernie do to the Democrats what Corbyn did to Labour?
Bernie Sanders is a phenomenon in much the same way as Donald Trump was a phenomenon in 2016. His supporters…
Global warning: 2020 Dems are floundering on foreign policy
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. What would a Michael Bloomberg foreign policy look like? A…
Why ‘safe spaces’ are nowhere to be seen on Japan’s university campuses
A part-time lecturer and friend of mine was reported to his university last month for making ‘inappropriate comments’ in the…
