We could be a superpower, too
Back in 2008, Kevin Rudd announced a new ‘Green Car Plan’ which in his words would ‘make the automotive industry…
Bruce Beresford at home in Birchgrove 2018
Sydney’s Archibald has the name and the fame, but there is a new kid on the block: the Darling Portrait…
Hands on the scales of Aboriginal affairs
Recently we saw the release of the latest Closing the Gap report for 2020. There were no real surprises, so…
A night in God’s country with Donald J. Trump
‘If we put our trust in Him, if we place this miracle of democracy from sea to shining sea. then…
The Democrats are fracking insane
This article is in The Spectator’s March 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. What could be more emblematic of the American Dream than…
Despite Brexit
After the vote for Brexit, it was often said that our departure from the EU was most likely to harm…
Portrait of the week
Home The Budget, still scheduled for 11 March, had to be rewritten after Rishi Sunak was made Chancellor of the…
Diary
A doctor will tell you heart attacks may appear to come out of the blue, but if you look carefully,…
Barometer
Breeding controversy A Downing Street aide, believed to have been recruited as a result of Dominic Cummings’s advert for ‘weirdos…
Performance artists
The PM was filmed introducing his new cabinet by getting them to answer in unison how many hospitals, how many…
Letters
No defence Sir: Jon Stone (Letters, 15 February) recalls the horrors and miseries of being subjected to bombing from the…
The Spectator’s Notes
My parents told me that their wartime childhoods were punctuated by the expression: ‘Don’t you know there’s a war on?’…
The Brexit reshuffle
One of the Tories’ tactical successes has been to push Brexit down the news agenda. But even if it no…
The blindness of cultural Marxism
Words we are not allowed to use any more now include ‘cultural Marxism’. Suella Braverman, now the Attorney General, used…
How low can the BBC go?
Last weekend’s papers claimed that the government desires a ‘massively pruned back’ BBC. Former Conservative cabinet minister Damian Green and…
How I became an easy police target
Most Britons assume at the outset that any misfortune involving a cyclist is the cyclist’s fault. After all, many a…
Time for new leadership at Barclays and HSBC – and a new name at RBS
After a dull interlude, the big banks in their annual results season look a bit more interesting again. First to…
Battle of the billionaires
‘Mini Mike’ is the only candidate rich enough to intimidate the President
Hollywood Notebook
Recovering from a bad cold and bored to tears by the fare on television, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu (it’s shocking…
Bread boards
It’s not known which inspired Victorian first had the idea to take a chopping block and carve it into a…
