We football romantics love the fifth round of the FA cup
And so we say farewell to the round of 16 in the FA Cup, traditionally a viscerally thrilling process that…
Dear Mary: how can I hide that I’m no longer drinking?
![[istockphoto.com]](https://www.spectator.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/iStock_962573364.jpg?w=410&h=275&crop=1)
Q. I have given up drink except on certain occasions when it would be really rude to refuse. What’s the…
A temple to small food in a room for rich people: the Ledbury in Notting Hill reviewed
A serious restaurant for serious times: the Ledbury in Notting Hill. It’s a good time to do it, as the…
There’s a lot of interrogating going on – and not just by policemen
My husband sat in his usual chair, interrogating the contents of his whisky glass with his old, tired nose. In…
The march of Europe’s nationalists
Brexit will be the defining event for Europe in 2019. But another big story will also hog the headlines: the…
On the cultural reappropriation of long sleeve dresses
As a rule, I do not write articles calling out the stupid things I’ve seen on the internet. There are…
Morrison, Dutton and the Coalition
Over here in London, politics is boiling down to a battle between perfidity (of Theresa May, her Remainer-stacked Cabinet and…
Simon Collins
Queensland may have thrown in the towel in its wars with the cane toad, the rabbit and the crown-of-thorns starfish,…
Aesthetic notes
Earlier this week I attended a vast party thrown by Tim Storrier in Bowral to celebrate his and his twin…
Whitewater, Lewinsky, Clinton and, er, Trump
This month marks the 20th anniversary of President Bill Clinton’s acquittal by the Senate in the Whitewater-Lewinsky bogus scandal. It…
Reassessing Bill
The renewed talk about refugees and border protection, brought on by the passage of the bill for medical evacuation from…
Tipping point of hysteria
Since the dawn of the climate debate in the late 1980s, any number of tipping points for the earth’s ecosystem…
Where is GetUp’s ‘Drugs Kill’ campaign?
In their latest attempt to dupe Australians, GetUp! has enlisted both a ‘big lie’ and a hip online shopping site…
Bangarra 30th Anniversary
A year of 30th anniversaries; the latest is Bangarra Dance Theatre founded in 1989 by a South African Cheryl Stone…
No borders, no country
If we don’t have borders, we don’t have a country’. Not many Western leaders would join Donald Trump in declaring…
The Internationale
The number of significant political events that have taken place over the past week or so should, when taken together,…
New Jersey bill to keep Trump off the ballot is ‘wildly unconstitutional’
The New Jersey State Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill Thursday to require presidential candidates to release five…
Will the EU do to Britain what it did to Greece?
With less than six weeks remaining until the March 29 deadline for Britain to exit the EU, the likelihood of…
Donald Trump. Worst. Homophobe. Evah.
Not satisfied to have personally tied a noose around Jussie Smollett’s neck and poured some MAGA bleach on the gay…
Laugh at Trump and Fat Boy Kim, but we’ve got plenty riding on Hanoi
Fatty Kim III. Trust the Chinese to come up with an amusing nickname for Kim Jong-Un. This bizarre figure will…
Pawns take Bishop
Julie Bishop has pulled the plug on her political career. The effusion of love in the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon,…
What’s so good about transgender toilets?
It seems that simply posing the above question can—at least potentially—get you into some serious trouble these days. But it’s…
The problem with ‘hate speech’ laws
When Facebook posts lead to Federal Court proceedings, a parliamentary inquiry, and a bankruptcy, something has gone seriously wrong with…
ISIS MILFs* want back in
In ages past, traitors who chose the other side and fought with the enemy against their country could expect a…
How Cuba pulls Venezuela’s strings
Last month, when the Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, was briefly detained by Maduro’s intelligence agents less than 48 hours…
