Too many causes, not enough care
Compare the pair: This day is call’d the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,…
Free speech: just who is a reasonable person anyway?
What limited protection we have in Australia for free speech, is based on the concept of the ‘reasonable person’. In…
Kummel and Soda, sir?
Jonathan Ray encounters his new favourite drink. The other night I had a drink I’d never had before and I…
Nailing it with prize tool Waleed Aly
According to Buzzf… I mean News.com.au – sorry, for some reason I often make that mistake lately – The Project…
ACT Election: if Labor won’t stop the rot, taxpayers must
While it hasn’t garnered a lot of attention outside of Canberra, this weekend is the ACT Election and the choice…
Why it (still) has to be Trump
The only important question in the American election is this: who will make the better president, Hillary Clinton or Donald…
Andrew Jaspan triumphs again
Andrew Jaspan – the malevolent Mancunian media marvel – has done it again. He’s set to be booted from The…
Piking on the Piketty show
Le economiste fashioniste, Thomas Piketty, is in town and my generous wife thought tickets to his talk would be…
Fresh news from the inner-city…
Why hasn’t The Age been all over this? It’s the ultimate Melbourne inner-city accommodation experience, surely? Either that or a…
James Paterson’s welcome lateral thinking
Good on Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson for his media campaign to sell Jackson Pollock’s drunken daub, Blue Poles, to…
The Trump and Judy show
Clinton: ‘It’s a good thing that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law…
Naplan obesity tests? A fat lot of good that will do
NAPLAN FAT TESTS—Students as young as nine would [sic] take fitness exams so schools across the country can be ranked…
Pauline Hanson: back, but for how long?
‘I’m back’, and with these two words, Pauline Hanson stated the bleeding obvious as she delivered her maiden speech in…
A conservative Bill for marriage equality
Edmund Burke seems to have gone out of fashion a bit, and as a man who still listens to Oasis…
Riot Woy’s war diary
It seems just a mere few weeks ago that I was toasting a crumpet in the prefects’ room at St…
Diary
Any day now, the government will make its long delayed announcement on whether a third runway should be built at…
Bridge
It often strikes me that learning to bid is just like mastering a language. As you take on new conventions…
Barometer
Tenement Scots John Cleese referred to the editor of this magazine as a ‘tenement Scot’. Do more Scots live in…
Kate Tempest
Kate Tempest, a 30 year old dramatist and poet, has an appeal that’s hard to fathom. Is it all in…
Augustus vs Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected leader of the Labour party not by MPs but by his teenage ‘fans’ in Momentum.…
The Battle for Britain
The post The Battle for Britain appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment…
Business/Robbery etc
Put off the funeral arrangements; the incompetent South Australian government has, unintentionally, just given the kiss of life to coal…
Conscription in Ireland
From ‘More men’, The Spectator, 7 October 1916: Are we or are we not to apply compulsory service to Ireland? The…
High life
New York Back in the Big Bagel once again preparing for the greatest debate ever, one that will decide the…
Portrait of the Week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, said at the Conservative party conference that hers was now the party of ‘working-class’…
