Hot air
Climate change has taken place for thousands of millions of years. The extraordinary claim that humans cause climate change must…
Copping it sweet
New research from the University of Melbourne claiming a tax on soft drink could add 1.2 years of healthy life…
Sleaford Mods: English Tapas
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
Sleaford Mods: English Tapas
It’s all beginning to wear very thin indeed. Ten years ago this already addled Nottinghamshire duo captured the attention with…
What I did on International Women’s Day
It was International Women’s Day on Wednesday of this last week. The Guardian had enjoined its readers to send in…
Poison, spies and lies
Washington DC Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…
Hanson’s apology shows strength, not weakness
They’re so busy laying traps for her, and delighting when she becomes ensnared, that leftist bullies are entirely in denial…
Wikileaks, technology and the end of privacy
I’m neither an IT expert nor an intelligence insider (12 years ago when I was publishing the “Good News from…
Let’s have a day for middle-aged white men
So International Women’s Day (aka the ABC’s male presenters’ RDO) has come and gone. Feminists and social media mavens have…
Pauline Hanson isn’t ripping off Queensland. Canberra’s ripping off the West
The accusation by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk that Pauline Hanson is trying to rip $1.6 billion from her home state to send to…
A bitter pils to swallow
The Courier Mail reported Monday “One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is set to embark on another venture, putting her name…
Wellness warriors and the right to be a bloody idiot
Fringe health and well-being guru David “Avocado” Wolfe is coming to Australia and surprise, surprise there are two separate Change.org…
Pedestrian signals, pedestrian thinking
Today it was revealed by the Herald Sun that the Committee of Melbourne in conjunction with VicRoads are installing 10…
March too much (for science)
Just days after more than 300 US scientists petitioned President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency (February…
How the left have barred the way for economic reform
Judging by the despondent state of most Australian economists there’s little prospect coming years will generate much more than continued…
There is no alternative?
How many readers believe that any political party in the democratic world can continue to win every single election for…
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The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance is delighted to invite readers of The Australian Spectator to the largest centre-right gathering in the…
Brace yourselves for a round of fake ANZAC speeches
Australians should prepare themselves for an avalanche of fake speeches from our political class as the 75th anniversary of the…
Want to lift the standing of the Liberal Party? Hit Labor
After the last couple of weeks, a lot of us are left wondering what are Liberals to do? How about…
Jesus is Lord? Prove it, or we’ll do you for misleading advertising
Jesus once said that the Pharisees – the self-righteous cultural gatekeepers of his day who looked down on everyone else…
The turf
When the generals have lost heart and crept away from the battlefield it is hard for the ground troops to…
No mumbling allowed
In the audience-free world of TV, where ‘acting’ and visuals have become of far greater importance than the actual words,…
Barometer
And the losers are… La La Land was mistakenly announced as winner of the Oscar for best picture before the…
A model village
From ‘Sir Thomas Acland’s example’, The Spectator, 3 March 1917: In 1912 we discussed the idea — a favourite dream…
