Has Kanye been recruited by The Greens?
When news broke that Mike Pompeo reportedly had a secret meeting with Kim Jong Un, it seemed the world couldn’t…
Cities can grow without gridlock
Perhaps you’ve heard of the City of Melbourne’s misguided plan to ban non-resident cars from the CBD. It’s understandable: our…
Clementine Ford constructs justice
If there is no justice like justice through a feminist’s eyes, there is none. Yes, there have been calls for…
The scope of Trump Derangement Syndrome: revealed
Perhaps America’s leftist literatti should charge the President rent for living in their heads. CNN reports: Since January, each book…
How will history recall our climate catastrophists?
We study history so as to not repeat it. There are many historical parallels with Australia’s current insanity on renewable…
Fifty shades of old school tie?
When you use your old school tie to bind your significant other to the bed: The world’s first dating app…
“Why do you hate the environment?”
Whenever I object to the government banning plastic bags or tripling my electricity bill, I’m always asked, ‘Why do you…
In defence of the expert
David Pearl’s recent Spectator feature on Professor Tom Nichols, a defence academic and Sovietologist at Harvard Naval College, suggested that…
Doubting Dawkins – even Darwin, too
One of the most popular pieces in last Saturday’s Weekend Australian reported a controversial scientific hypothesis proposing that the evolution…
Hijacking Eureka
The Queensland Teachers’ Union decision to decorate every classroom in the state with the Eureka Stockade flag is blatant indoctrination…
Jerusalem: always the capital
On Wednesday, Israel will celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, its national day commemorating the Israeli Declaration of Independence signed in 1948. This…
A sugar tax is “Do Something” Economics 101
Britain’s recent implementation of a sugar tax has reignited the push for an Australian sugar tax, pointing to ‘science’. Often,…
Boundary re-draws have a silver lining for the Coalition, if not the poor PM
In the world of political nerdery, nothing beats electoral redistributions. Who wins, who loses, new primary and two party-preferred margins,…
Assad did it, not Putin
Last week’s chemical attack on dozens of his citizens – including children – has elicited no outrage from President Bashir…
Syria strikes and a Stormy in a DD cup
The weekend’s raids on Syria have been seen by some as a Clintonesque wag the dog exercise. Older factor are…
Peter FitzSimons, the atheist fire-and-brimstone preacher
Don’t you find it interesting that the one guy in the media who was calling down fire and fury on…
The Commonwealth’s survival is all down to the Queen
Next week, 53 world leaders arrive in London for the Commonwealth summit. It is hard to imagine a better network…
Tension as Britain decides whether to join in air strikes on Syria
Home Parliament was in recess when Theresa May, the Prime Minister, agreed with America and France that the international community…
Can fiction really cure cancer?
If you write a book, even a novel, about Shakespeare you must at least consider the theory that Will of…
Our future queen
From The Spectator, 15 April 1943: Princess Elizabeth will be 17 next Wednesday, which means she is ceasing to be…
Britain has 58,000 ‘travellers’ – but only a quarter live in caravans
Disapproving chorus Derbyshire’s Chief Constable told the all-male Derbyshire Constabulary Choir to sever all police ties unless it takes women.…
Rome and the Jews
Jeremy Corbyn, it is said, does not have a racist bone in his body, and therefore cannot, by definition, be…
Letters: Why I’ll never fly ‘puerile’ Virgin again
For the many not the few Sir: As is clear from the last paragraph of your leading article (7 April), the…
The Good Friday Agreement is not a peace but a truce
The Good Friday Agreement (GFA), which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, is not a peace, but a truce. This does…
Will Britain find a new role in the world after Brexit?
Britain’s imperial past distorts the debate about our place in the world, but not in the way that is commonly…
