The sliming of Roger Scruton
If you’re a conservative, there’s no doubt that you’ve heard about Roger Scruton or come across his works. Scruton is…
Dismembering diplomacy’s fourth wall
Strange things happen at international embassies all the time. In 1984 a female British police officer was shot from the…
Bye-bye White Ribbon?
Word is White Ribbon is in trouble. The Australian reports it’s in a “parlous” financial state. The annual report is…
Transgender: the great transgression
Let’s face it, being transgender is the new black. Simply being homosexual is so last year. So much so, in…
The Mark & Malcolm show
Harold Macmillan, British Tory prime minister, asked by a journalist what had caused the downfall of his government reputedly responded,…
Deport the terrorists – and their families too
If our existing laws can not protect us from harm, we must make new ones that can. Terrorists, even those…
Terror and our hopeless optimism
The ninth of November will live on in the history of Melbourne as yet another tainted date, a day that…
Clementine Ford is a big fat hypocrite
The face of hypocrisy in Australia is Clementine Ford. Ford will put forward an argument, then contradict herself through her…
Anne Aly: expert in political opportunism
It is now well known how Labor MP Anne Aly has been highly critical of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s response…
EXCLUSIVE: The bureaucrats desecrating our diggers’ graves
Today, we mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the signing of the armistice which brought an end to the First World…
What the UK can learn from the US midterms
Donald Trump can, at the very least, claim to have killed off political apathy. Americans this week voted in greater…
Portrait of the week: The US midterms, Theresa May’s Brexit plan and London’s murder rate
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, set off for St Symphorien Military Cemetery in Mons, from which she was to…
Tim Laurence’s diary: how Macron broke a gentleman’s agreement for Remembrance Sunday
How on earth should one do it? How should the centenary of the end of a war be marked? Not…
How many restaurants have actually gone bust?
It is cricket The use of a baseball expression, backstop, for possible arrangements over the Irish border could upset some…
Giving thanks
From ‘Thanks be to God’, 16 November 1918: The thought that filled the mind of the nation on Monday, and…
Tony Abbott is wholly misplaced about WTO Brexit
Hubris and nemesis Sir: Douglas Murray’s assessment of Angela Merkel’s decision to stand down as German Chancellor (‘Europe’s empty throne’,…
The lesson of the midterms? Trump’s crudeness works
Washington, DC President Donald J. Trump thinks only in terms of winning and losing. On Tuesday, he won and he…
Why I’ve changed my name
As someone who has recently discovered he is black, I have watched with incredulity the treatment doled out by the…
Is there a moral difference between an NDA and blackmail?
Reader, may I call you John? Now imagine, John, that you are my employer and I know (or claim) that…
Trump is right about many things, which is why he must be stopped
At my lecture in Sheffield last week, the final question in an otherwise temperate Q&A was antagonistic. My last Spectator…
History will judge UK ministers harshly for the Irish backstop
We may or may not hear news soon of a settlement of the Irish border issue that will allow Brexit…
My great-grandfather’s personal remembrance day
The sixth of November 1918 was remembrance day for my great-grandfather, Norman Moore. It was the fourth anniversary of the…
Brexit is served – and neither option is palatable
When the Lisbon Treaty was signed in 2007, the inclusion of Article 50 was hailed as a concession to British…
Decline and fall: why America always thinks it’s going the way of Rome
For a millennium and a half now, one of the great pleasures of being a commentator on current affairs has…
Standing in front of my great-uncle’s grave, we thought: I’m so sorry it took us so long
The story is part of family lore. How, during the Battle of Mons, on 23 August 1914, two long columns…
