Fever pitch
It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…
Fever pitch
It cost just £4/10s for 19-year-old Alan Dryland to buy a season ticket that would take him inside the stadium…
Bridge
The rise of Donald Trump in the US presidential race has had at least one very peculiar consequence: millions of…
Rough justice for Sir Shifty, but MPs have got him bang to rights
Not even your quixotic columnist is prepared to mount a full-on defence of Sir Philip Green this week, following the…
The alt-right isn’t all wrong
I got told off this week by a presenter on BBC radio for using a four-letter word live on air.…
Pokémon Go? I wish it would
Monday morning: one hand trapped beneath the fat and guzzling midget, with the other I idly opened the gates of…
Three key tests for any Brexit deal
‘Brexit means Brexit’ is one of the most brilliant political soundbites of recent times. It worked wonders for Theresa May…
The Spectator’s Notes
At the beginning of his war memoirs, Charles de Gaulle famously wrote, ‘All my life I have had a certain…
1966 and all that
In the song ‘All the Young Dudes’, David Bowie gamely tried to reassure the youth of the Seventies that, despite…
Win two bottles of exceptional English fizz – the Ambriel Classic Cuvée and the Ambriel Rosé
We have two bottles of exceptional English fizz – the Ambriel Classic Cuvée and the Ambriel Rosé – to give…
Being brusque does not justify George Pell’s trial by media
On Wednesday night, the whole of the ABC’s 7.30 programme was given over to an expose of historic allegations against…
Cover 30 July 2016 AU
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Cover 30 July 2016
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Malcolm Turnbull: supreme narcissist
Over lunch with friends on June 30, we all guessed the election outcome. I thought the Coalition would lose 11…
Troughing and other pig-headed behaviour
So soon after scraping back in, Malcolm Turnbull is prepared to risk everything on the one issue, which makes many…
Rescheduled event: Lunch with Domaine Chanson
Join us in the Spectator boardroom for our rescheduled Winemaker’s lunch with Matthieu Barrère from Domaine Chanson, producer of exceptional, handcrafted…
Ten More Unexpectedly Wonderful Places in Which to Eat
One of the great joys of travelling is happening upon a restaurant or bar that quite unexpectedly brings a beaming…
The media and the Religion of Peace™
I’m quite sure I wasn’t the only one who, upon hearing last week that Merrylands Police Station in Sydney’s west…
Daniel Andrews’ letter of intolerance
The moral indignation of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews public letter to the Prime Minister on marriage equality again shows the…
Three letters to my daughters
July 8 2016 To my daughters (and their friends) I’ve been thinking and watching and observing my daughters and their…
Marriage equality: Daniel Andrews has big ears, but doesn’t listen
Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has ears sticking out from his bonce like wide-open car doors. But for a bloke whose…
Death by by-election
The Liberal National Party has sent the lawyers up to Townsville as the recount continues for the seat of Herbert.…
Fairfax in a nutshell. Or nuthouse…
Or both, perhaps. Whichever way it explains the sales figures. Melbourne’s quality Sunday offers the remaining readers some sabbath food…
Decline of the West, a hundred years on
The first volume of Oswald Spengler’s The Decline of the West (Der Untergang des Abendlandes) was published in 1918, followed…
