Boris risks backbench rebellion if he doesn’t get Huawei right
Tory MPs are not happy with the Huawei decision. Normally loyal MPs are expressing their bafflement at the announcement. As…
Why we’ll regret the Huawei gamble
It is apparently fine for China to ban western technology from its telecommunications network but quite unacceptable for us to…
EXCLUSIVE: There’s no masking it – coronavirus panic is here
There’s no hiding from the truth. Australia is being hit by a fully-fledged panic over the coronavirus — and those…
Jihad by fire?
Here is a basic question: Would it be possible to assume that deliberately setting fires in Australia could eventually become…
The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei
With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…
Why John Bolton won’t win his war on Trump
The first sentence of the New York Times report on John Bolton’s tell-all memoir about his time in the Trump…
The dangers of letting Huawei build our 5G network
This afternoon Boris Johnson finally approved the use of equipment made by Huawei in building parts of Britain’s 5G network.…
Want to boost productivity? Fix education, stop the buck-passing – and cut energy costs
One thing on which almost all economists can unite is that Australia’s productivity performance for the past dozen years has…
Why I’m over Australia Day
So Australia Day has come and gone for another year. Yet again we had the Lay On the Guilt With…
My delightful Australia Day message from Clementine Ford
I love this country. I am extremely proud to live here and call it home. I will never apologise for that.…
Coronavirus: keep calm and carry on?
Since the Wuhan coronavirus was first brought to the public’s attention, Australian government health authorities including the nation’s Chief Medical…
Bloomberg is the only Democrat who can take on Trump
To paraphrase Shakespeare, the whirligig of time brings in… more whirligigs. Four years ago, few people thought that Donald Trump…
The Bolton blindside
What’s wrong with trying to sell books? President Trump and his janissaries are trying to depict Bolton as a disgruntled…
The deranged rage against the Brexit 50p coin
Remoaners are having the mother of all meltdowns. What’s rankled them this time? The Brexit 50p, of course. Yes, they’re…
What it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors
This is a short piece on Holocaust Memorial Day, and what it means to be descended from Holocaust survivors. Many,…
Forget about “noisy Australians”. What about self-absorbed, obsessive-complusive Twits?
After the bushfires, the Australia Day bashing brigade kept pretty quiet this year. Other than the lunatic fringe, most of…
The strange new liberal attraction to the feds
In a political era defined by abnormalities, few developments are as bizarre as the newfound liberal admiration for federal law…
How Boris Johnson can emulate Margaret Thatcher
An open letter to Boris Johnson: People, even including your opponents, are getting used to the idea that you are…
Laurence Fox and the curdling of rational minds
I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
The Greens: fingers on the pulse
If you live outside Sydney’s inner-west and don’t follow the internecine warfare between the Watermelons and Deep Greens of the…
Donald Trump, president of peace
This article is in The Spectator’s February 2020 US edition. Subscribe here. Groupthink is the last thing a country needs when debating…
Don’t tell us when or what to celebrate. It’s our day, Australia Day, January 26
Change the date on this one and it will be a win for those people who hate Australia and all…
Do alarmists know the difference between weather and climate?
Until recently, those expressing scepticism about climate-change catastrophe have been hauled over the coals (or the renewables equivalent) for not…
How to fight back against ‘cancel culture’
‘Cancel culture’ is a horrible term because outside of a dictatorship nobody can actually be ‘canceled’ or otherwise ‘disappeared’. All…
