Cover girl
It was around three weeks ago that The Spectator Australia’s Mark Powell first broke the story on our online magazine…
Moment of evil
It was a moment of sheer evil. This was when the closely guarded secret bill to allow the killing of…
Litmus test for the Libs
Despite ScoMo’s ‘miracle’ victory over the now almost forgotten Bill Shorten, and much Liberal party celebrating over the apparent return…
Molotov’s poisonous cocktail
Yesterday’s 80th anniversary of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the curtain-raiser for Hitler’s invasion of Poland a week later,…
Stop thinking Merkel will save us, Dominic Cummings warns
Is Boris Johnson more likely to get a Brexit deal after his meetings with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron? The…
Forget Greenland, Donald Trump should buy Scotland
Donald Trump’s attempted purchase of Greenland may have fallen through but if he’s still in the market, there’s some prime…
Elizabeth Warren is the darling of the Democratic consultant class
If you blinked, you probably missed it: a rather interesting 2020 presidential poll came out this week. Not one of…
How will Hoseasons enforce its ban on ‘homophobes’?
Gillette has learned the hard way that if you annoy your customer base, your business will suffer. Ever since it…
Gladys and Alex: eugenics hip new friends
Many people are rightly outraged at just how extreme Alex Greenwich’s “Reproductive Rights Bill” is, which will soon be before…
What’s woke this week
When I first began writing this column I used to worry that there might be some weeks that wouldn’t provide…
How to reindustrialise Australia
This week we heard that that Australian steel producer BlueScope will invest $1 billion in an Ohio-based American steel plant, citing…
Why the Ramsay Centre is a good bet for UQ — and Australia
After a controversial multi-month negotiation, Ramsay Centre CEO Simon Haines and University of Queensland Vice-Chancellor Peter Høj have signed off…
Never Trumpers are back. Here’s why they will fail again
From the moment Donald Trump stepped onto the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for president of the…
School choice should mean more than a public-private pick
The Australian Scholarships Group (ASG)’s flagship annual publication — the Parents Report Card — dishes up some choice findings about…
Tim Fischer: farewell to a gentle warrior
In its campaign advertising in 1996 the Keating government portrayed Nationals leader Tim Fischer as a half-deranged yokel; a national…
Here come the new eco-fascists
“The Washington Post” beat me taking a closer look at the Christchurch, NZ, and El Paso, Texas, terrorist attacks carried…
Let’s fight poverty. Let’s abolish the minimum wage
In the months since the election, not only have we seen a new appetite for industrial relations reform but things…
Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel’s optimistic press conference
When Theresa May held press conferences with European leaders over Brexit, they were often a painful affair – with her…
France says no deal now the most likely Brexit outcome. But why now?
Why would French government officials brief that they think it most likely Britain will leave the European Union without a…
Boris Johnson’s Brexit opponents are playing into his hands
There is arguably the most important conflict raging in the Tory party since Churchill replaced Chamberlain as PM in 1940.…
The Pell appeal: why good process makes us a better society
In the interests of disclosure, I am Catholic. That said, you only need a two-minute conversation with my mum to…
Clementine Ford the arbiter of language? F**k off!
If hateful hard left exhibitionist extremist Clementine Ford is now the gatekeeper of language, we are all fucked. I would…
China’s young nationalists – no holds barred and on our streets
Last Friday I turned up to the “Stand with Hong Kong — Power to the People” Rally at the State Library of…
Will Italy’s warring politicians succeed in shutting Salvini out of power?
What now looks like a distinct possibility in Italy after today’s resignation of Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte is a…
Free speech first, then the right to know
As most Speccie readers would know, I stand unashamedly for free speech; even speech that might offend or insult. Speech…
