The noose around Australian businesses
In Greenwashed: the strange triumph of eco-Toryism, (The Spectator Australia, 15 June), Ross Clark describes how Conservative party leadership contenders…
Conscience rules, OK?
Two problems with Scott Morrison’s proposed Religious Discrimination Bill. First, what does it mean for those who make a stand…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Adani’s Carmichael mine in remote central Queensland is, after nine tempestuous years, under way since at last getting…
Euronotes
The hybrid Boris Johnson How is it that the likeable Boris Johnson has become such a hate-figure? The British Left…
Another Sampson blinded in Gaza
Hooray for Pallywood, or rather Gazallywood, that wonderful melange of misleading footage, falsehoods, fakeries and frauds that makes up so…
Privilege points to prejudice
The other day I checked my points balance. I felt ashamed by how high it was, and wondered what I…
Still Laboring under delusions
Six weeks after the federal election, the resumption of parliament has forced Labor to accept the unpalatable truth that it…
Biden and Trump converge on the middle ground
Are both Donald Trump and Joe Biden going to run to the center? Yesterday Trump delivered a fairly anodyne speech…
Billy Connolly and the death of free speech
I hope readers will forgive me for returning to a subject I addressed here recently. It was a reflection on the…
Boris vs Hunt: a voter’s guide
Voting is finally underway in the Tory leadership contest. So should Britain’s next prime minister be Boris Johnson or Jeremy…
We have too many university students
Universities have been admitting too many students, a greater proportion are now struggling, their debts have soared, and the payoff…
Meet the Christian lawyers and leaders fighting forty years of PC bigotry
How many arm-chair commentators consider the magnitude of religious freedom cases that have actually graced our courtrooms in the past…
Britain’s Israel Folau wins his case
Like Australia’s Israel Folau, British student Felix Ngole, is a litmus test regarding freedom of religion, as well as freedom…
How Australians are in the front line of the global war to save the university
The free speech code drawn up by former chief justice of the High Court of Australia, Robert French, is a…
How the gender benders are coming for your favourite sport
The Australian Human Rights Commission has just released its Guidelines for the inclusion of transgender and gender diverse people in…
Prime ministers past and the new parliament
Yesterday the larger than life contribution of Robert J. Hawke to Australian political life was recognised for the return of…
Where is the Democrat who can take on Trump?
I have plenty of shamefaced company in having rashly predicted, as pundits are warned never to do, that Donald Trump…
How the first world war inspired the EU
Christopher Booker has died at the age of 81. In 2014, he wrote in The Spectator about how the first…
Pass the tax cuts now – or has Labor forgotten May 18?
Along with President Trump, readers of Spectator’s Flat White should not have been at all surprised by the victory of…
Would you trust Wayne Swan to speak sense on anything?
Wayne Swan is the former federal treasurer who promised a budget surplus over and over and over again, but never…
Quiet (young) Australians
While many young Australians are partial to a whinge about how expensive three bedroom terraces in Surry Hill and Collingwood…
We need a Restoration of Freedoms Bill, not religious freedom legislation
The Morrison government is promising to introduce a religious discrimination bill. And yet, these reforms are unsatisfactory. They pose a…
Trump’s ‘Salute to America’ is the perfect fusion of capitalism and patriotism
The Washington, DC city council is having none of it. ‘Tanks, but no tanks’, it tweeted at Donald Trump. Trump…
Is Joe Biden the Democrat’s Jeb Bush?
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when Joe Biden was the man to beat in the race to…
Some women have penises. If you won’t sleep with them you’re transphobic
I’m bored with writing about politicians and Brexit so this is an article about genitals instead. Feel free to make…
