Will the impeachment inquiry stuff Donald Trump?
President Trump was talking turkey today. At the White House, he performed a solemn task. He pardoned what he referred…
Full transcript: Jeremy Corbyn grilled by Andrew Neil
Jeremy Corbyn took part in The Andrew Neil Interviews on BBC One this evening. The veteran broadcaster grilled the Labour…
Jeremy Corbyn flounders on anti-Semitism, Brexit, tax and spending
Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with Andrew Neil was one of the most uncomfortable half hours of the Labour leader’s tenure. In…
Please, won’t someone think of the gender-fluid sportspeople?
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more ridiculous, hang onto your hats folks, saddle up across the…
Sir David Attenborough didn’t deserve the Chatham House Prize
Every November the London based foreign affairs think tank, Chatham House, awards a prize for ‘the most significant contribution to…
Why is there more intellectual freedom in Bucharest than Cambridge?
‘You can talk about anything you like,’ said Radu, a young Romanian academic when he invited me to a conference…
Dear Dr Bandt, if countries don’t buy our coal it doesn’t mean they’ll become carbon free
In the absence of Australian consumers having any actual influence on historical global climate variations, Greens MP for Melbourne Adam…
Climate cranks turn up the heat
Climate hysteria is increasing in intensity at the rate that alarmists claim extreme weather events are increasing thanks to burning…
Care about China’s Uighurs? You must be a white racist cultural imperialist
China is very touchy today about criticism of its inhumane rights regime, but who else managed to miss this truly…
Trump honors hero dog Conan. Media goes barking mad
There are a few scenes from the Trump presidency which belong in the pantheon of great American political imagery. There…
Water crisis? What water crisis?
Australia may be the “land of drought and flooding rains”, but that is no excuse to mismanage abundance and utilise…
Talk of a Tory majority could spell trouble for Boris Johnson
In their attempt to avoid a repeat of 2017, the Tories have cleared another hurdle. A day on from the…
Prince Andrew’s Pitch@Palace was bad news for businesses
A couple of years ago, I was briefly involved with Pitch@Palace – Prince Andrew’s initiative to link up fledgeling businesses…
Bloomberg’s billions could be his biggest liability
If all it took to become president of the United States was massive spending on television and digital advertisements, Mike…
Impeachment inflames Trump Derangement Syndrome
After the media’s coverage of the August El Paso mass shootings and as the impeachment process unfolds, it is becoming…
The left’s ‘tyranny of tolerance’ means we need religious freedom laws
As Attorney-General Christian Porter aims to bring his Religious Discrimination Bill before Parliament in the first week of December, critics…
First Tibet. Then Xinjiang. Next Hong Kong?
Recent reporting of a 400-page leak from within the Chinese Communist Party — dubbed The Xinjiang Papers — confirms previous accounts of the…
How Bloomberg helps Bernie
Who likes Mike? The billionaire Michael Bloomberg has ended years of speculation by announcing that he is running to be…
Boris Johnson has gambled big by pledging to spend small
Boris Johnson just took a very big political risk, by not making any serious attempt to compete with Labour on…
The other extinction rebellion: against the extinction of real learning in our schools
The(ir) ABC appear shocked to find that conservatives in Australia are pushing back against leftism in the classroom. “One Nation…
Who likes Mike?
This article is in The Spectator’s December 2019 US edition. Subscribe here. It’s springtime for billionaires. Former New York mayor and media…
Will two tigers clash over Sri Lanka – India and China?
Elections in the subcontinent often have a ‘nothing to see here’ feeling, mainly because, through a heritage of colonial rule,…
Why the left’s beef about the Reef?
We live in an era when it is politically incorrect to say the Great Barrier Reef is doing fine, except…
What I miss about general elections
One thing I miss about taking part in a general election is the travel. Really. I loved it. In 2015,…
Tory manifesto will shift the party to a more blue collar conservatism
What happened last time means that the Tories are extremely nervous about their manifesto launch tomorrow. As I say in…
