to 2347: Capital letters
The unclued lights are LETTERS in alphabetical order which, when rearranged, give the names of eight CAPITAL cities. First prize Lucy…
QPR beat Sunderland 1-0… but my own score has not been settled
Last Saturday was shaping up to be one of the best days of my life. Freddie, my ten-year-old son, had…
ISA and pension limits discourage ordinary people from saving
The maximum amount you can save in an ISA for the tax year 2017-2018 is now £20,000. The maximum annual…
How can I avoid power handshakes? They hurt my fragile knuckles
Q. How does one avoid power handshakes? Twenty-five years of wicket-keeping have left me with pathetically fragile knuckles, and each…
Big two-hearted river: the wines of the Rhône
The Rhône is a strong river. The Loire derives graciousness from its châteaux. The Rhine and the Thames have been…
Love is love, boys
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has again flagged his intention to deliver a national apology to the victims of institutional child…
Stuck down a one-way street
Australia is not a racist country. Compared with much of the world, Australia is a paragon of virtue when it…
Brown study
Three Billboards outside Batman, Victoria It all started when I was driving home in the Tesla from a meeting of…
Simon Collins
‘A woman preaching is like a dog walking on his hind legs,’ said Samuel Johnson, ‘It is not done well;…
Trump, the revolutionary
It’s no easy job keeping up with the 45th presidency. Events occur in a perpetual whirlwind. Presently, the shock of…
The fight Conservatives must have
Hands up if you read Paul Kelly in last Saturday’s Australian? He was writing on the state of conservatism in…
Aussie diary
He died in 1900, but my great grandfather, Archibald Richardson, outback explorer and early Rockhampton pioneer, is even today spoken…
Australian notes
The feminist revolution is already over. Men lost. International Women’s Day is a day when women of the chattering classes…
To drain the swamp, first pull the plug
It is a striking fact, but little acknowledged, that the Left in this country is largely funded by the taxpayer.…
Russell Crowe
The things we collect can say a great deal about us; so can the way we disperse a collection. The…
Washington diary
Washington is now the capital of a resurgent nation, rejecting the untenable proposition that she is in terminal decline, a…
Manna from Shorten
Just when the thirtieth consecutive Newspoll loss for the Turnbull government is looming, and it looks ‘Goodnight Irene’ for Malcolm…
What’s a little cannibalism between leftie friends?
Richard Dawkins was recently described in Breitbart as a ‘professional atheist’. The epithet was added in a news article that…
Forrest move shows markets, not governments, solving energy crisis
Billionaire Andrew Forrest’s plan to ship gas to the east coast from Western Australia shows that the market trumps government…
But Yassmin says it’s racist…
Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has asked his department to investigate whether white South African farmers can be accepted…
#AllLivesMatter – white lives too
Cyril Ramaphosa, the new President of South Africa, has decided that it’s time to take out the trash. The poor…
Time to put kids first and politics second
On Wednesday, Sunrise featured a segment that included two guests and a presenter advocating for the ban on the adoption…
The girl with the pearl earring
You can take a woman out of a grievance, but you can’t take a grievance out of a woman. The…
Liberals, Nationals and Australian Conservatives
It’s a sad day when one is forced to disagree with the recent offerings of such sage Spectator scribes as…
