Waiting for Winston
On the south side of the Ditch we’re living in The Present, a time that American poet Billy Collins identified…
The Greens for sale
EXCLUSIVE You’re a political party who appears to have reached – gratuitous Club of Rome reference – the limits of…
What’s happened to the university?
Many people are likely to have had a lightbulb moment that made them realise our universities are in trouble. Over…
Same-sex marriage and PVO and his army of straw men
Peter Van Onselen is a timely reminder that the ‘academic aristocracy’ is alive well in our land. He recently tried…
Ten things we should be talking about instead of same-sex marriage
It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that…
Venice all tarted up
Veneta is a Venetian restaurant inside the St James’s Market development south of Piccadilly Circus. I do not like this…
Bad sex
Australian universities appear to have completely capitulated to the virulently anti-male propaganda of radical feminists. Feminists increasingly control what is…
Insane expectations
Politics has always been a notoriously unstable activity but over recent years this has been accentuated by several long-accepted rules…
The great, needless Liberal fault line
One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done, for better or worse, is to highlight the deep differences within Australia’s…
Convention of Outsiders
Confidence in our political system has collapsed, as the internationally respected 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer records. Politicians usually justify our…
Split NZ
The only thing that can be said with any certainty about the next New Zealand government is that it will…
The nerves of the enemy
From ‘The progress in Flanders’, 29 September 1917: The fighting has reached a degree of intensity never before known. There…
It’s time to talk trade
Thirty years ago, the Conservatives would have had no problem countering what Jeremy Corbyn had to offer in Brighton. But…
Australian letters
More please Sir: What a great pleasure it was for me as a hybrid New Zealand / Australian to read…
Brown study
Here at the Spectator Australia Electoral Reform Unit we are pressing on with our major project to improve the electoral…
Absolutely nothing
Once more we are being asked to believe the unbelievable. Once again the usual suspects in the media and politics…
Gentrification is far from our biggest problem
The late afternoon sun fell on the anomalous pine trees of Gillett Square, London N16, and on the wooden decking…
Vital signs
Exhibit A. It is 1958 and you are barrelling down a dual carriageway; the 70 mph limit is still eight…
Notebook
I’m currently dwelling on past times. I have a film coming out based on the crazy events that took place…
Beauty and the beast
I was going to start with a little moan. About the shouty marketing, the digital diarrhoea, the sycophantic drivel, which,…
Sound and vision
To get a reminder of how strange the 1970s were, there’s no need to plough through lengthy social and political…
Prague
Prague. Prague. It helps to say the name at least twice as a countermeasure to the ridiculous ease of modern…
His first 100 days
Many assume that if an election were held soon, Jeremy Corbyn would win. But what if, say, the government fell…
Expat diary
‘Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn. Oooo, Jer-emy Cor-byn,’ the cult-esque chant goes as we walk past. I’m marching with the LGBTories in…
On the house
In Competition No. 3017 you were invited to submit a sonnet containing household tips. You were on sparkling form…
