The Spectator’s Notes
Mathias Döpfner, the extremely tall, extremely intelligent head of Axel Springer, is unusual in the generally conformist German business elite…
Close encounters of the Eighties kind
Stranger Things is the most delightful, gripping, charming, nostalgic, compulsive, edge-of-seat entertainment I’ve had in ages. Like a lot of…
Russia’s puritan revolution
Last weekend a group of young activists turned out on a Moscow street to protest against western decadence. They were…
Big boxes are the next growth story
Some time ago my eye was caught by the story of a boy who had taken his father’s credit card…
In search of Mayism
What does Theresa May believe? The new Prime Minister has had the summer to settle into her job and has…
Let’s bring the wolves back into Britain
A year ago there was a confirmed sighting, and even film, of a wild wolf in the Netherlands for the…
Israel and the slippery slope of anti-Semitism
In a screening interview for a government job I was once asked about my religion. I said I was Jewish but not very religious;…
So, South Australia, how’s that move to renewables working out for you?
Oh. From the Adelaide Advertiser, this afternoon: The entire state has lost all power in the midst of today’s big…
First they came for the racists
Look at the comments on any article on Free Speech, in particular Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, and…
On the upside, Prime Minister…
Yesterday’s Newspoll wasn’t exactly the best of news for the Prime Minister, but it shouldn’t have come as any surprise.…
South African cricket: from racist to rainbow nation and back again
The obsession with race in South Africa has clearly not ended with the demise of National Party rule in 1994.…
New welfare model, old welfare results
Social Services Minister Christian Porter has announced that the government intends to introduce a New Zealand style approach to welfare.…
The trumpet blasts of the monstrous regiment
On the weekend I was on an ABC Radio National panel discussion about major topical events of the week. The return…
Marriage equality: the left wants Turnbull to be a dictator
The left-wing admiration for Malcolm Turnbull, with his PC-opinions and hip leather jacket during his wilderness years of 2010-2015, was…
And in further news from the inner-city…
Looking for a little culture this weekend? Here’s something: Hilariously though even this sort of stuff comes completes with a…
Cover 24 September 2016 AU
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Pericles vs Juncker
The hopelessness of the EU is well demonstrated by the current rhetoric issuing from its inner chambers: that Britain must…
Right-on rhymes
In Competition No. 2966 you were invited to filter popular nursery rhymes through the prism of political correctness. Some years…
Turning the tide
From ‘The Battle of the Somme’, The Spectator, 23 September 1916: It may prove to be the fact that the battle…
Barometer
Underbooked David Cameron is said to be struggling to get a good price for his memoirs, with talk of a…
Throwing a tanderrum
Connoisseurs of our sunburnt country’s timeless heritage have a treat in store next month. An indigenous tanderrum, or ceremonial mass…
The Battle for Britain
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Haunted by an honourable member
I was awoken late on Monday night by a horrible nightmare, one of those dreams where you cannot be entirely…
When the fear of racism trumps everything else
Do you remember Alan Kurdi, the poor, drowned three-year-old whose photograph provoked a wave of sympathy for migrants almost exactly…
The miracle of Hong Kong
Since he moved to Hong Kong three years ago, the Rat’s Cantonese has been coming on apace. This has rather…
