What lies behind John Bercow’s use of the word ‘colleagues’?
The parliamentary press gallery has in the past given a pair of silver shoe buckles to the Speaker as a…
Elvis diary
Everyone, at least once in life, should go to the Elvis Festival in Parkes, Central NSW.The Leftist elites would hate…
Here’s the recipe for success
After a family Christmas in Canada my wife and I are now in London for half a year. It’s been…
Western Civ: it’s not just for white people anymore
When the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation generously offered to fund ‘Western Civ’ courses at Australian universities, critics at the…
Business/Robbery etc
The omens for Australia point to a lousy 2019 – politically, economically, commercially and internationally. Fear that Coalition election defeats…
What I learned at the hand of Brother Joseph
If anybody used the term ‘religious freedom’ during my childhood, I would have assumed it referred to the times at…
Kitty Flanagan
She’s bright and very funny. Kitty Flanagan was born and educated in Sydney. She is described as a stand-up comedian;…
Alice in Leftist-land
‘There’s no use trying,’ says Alice to the Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ No? Clearly…
Aux bien pensants
The New York Times reports the truly shocking news that Australia punches below its weight. The NYT’s source, Lowy Institute…
Brown study
As this is an election year, I would like to bring you up-to-date on the ground-breaking research that the Spectator…
The real dangers of Labor
Four months out from a likely election day, the Australian Labor Party is sitting pretty. The polls have Labor commandingly…
Australian letters
Shakespeare in love Sir: James Allan (“Australian Notes”, The Spectator, Australia Jan 5) correctly identifies the paucity of knowledge of…
‘Pick a side’, says Clem Ford. She means ‘Join mine – or else’
“Pick a side,” writes feminist cult leader exhibitionist, Clementine Ford. What she means is pick my side, because if you…
Transgender athletes: cheats and sophists
The problem with trying to accommodate every individual’s feelings and desires is that biological realities must eventually be ignored. To…
Foreign aid where everyone wins
What are our obligations to the global community? Most Anglo-western countries have generous foreign aid programs that compulsorily ‘share’ wealth…
The best a SJW can get
This week, Gillette jumped into bed with #MeToo and radical feminism. Yet it seems the only people getting screwed are…
Bin Marie Kondo, not your memories
Marie Kondo and her ideology of ridding yourself of possessions, has caught the world by storm. Yet, rather than bringing…
It’s not Huawei or the highway
China is herding over a million Turkic Uyghurs in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) into camps while Beijing simultaneously campaigns against Christmas…
Leadership beyond politics, rarely found in republics
The oldest office in the land has just changed hands, with barely a ripple on the surface. Acting on the…
How to be a man? Be a boy first
Imagine for a moment that you have been given a special power. I don’t mean one of those super powers…
What’s woke this week?
The fairyland that is wokedom is a wondrous place. Freed from the constraints of objective reality, history, facts and even…
Is Tim Soutphommasane Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in drag?
At “The Sydney Morning Herald”, the former race discrimination commissioner Tim Sensitive-About-His-Name sings the praises of one of the new…
Rough sleepers need tough love
The Everybody’s Home lobby group has been clanging the alarm bells about a growing rate of homelessness in Western Sydney.…
Peta Credlin: better on the outside
Nine’s dead tree division published a long comment piece by Speccie contributor John Ruddick that amounted to a political love…
It’s too late to save the government – but not save politics
The problem with Australian politics is the paradox of a lack of clear choices and a context of unprecedented polarisation.…
