From the Dead Era to the Golden Era
This week, we have welcomed in a ‘Golden Era’ and said goodbye to the gloomiest four years of Millennial life…
Inside the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre scandal
Roz Adams is not a public figure. She is not on social media. Yet this hardworking rape crisis support worker…
How Javier Milei found $18 billion
When Domingo Cavallo implemented at the start of December 2001 a restriction on cash withdrawals, he unwittingly unleashed a month…
Trump vs Albo the Unready, but what will Dutton do?
Donald Trump’s landslide election win is likely to give the Republicans a majority on every measure of electoral success with…
Two forgotten men brought down the Berlin Wall
Here in Berlin, 35 years ago today, at a dull press conference in a dreary conference room a short walk…
William Hague, Donald Trump and the lesson of Eric Morecambe
Never has there been a politician to have fallen so foul of the Eric Morecambe mistake of playing all the…
The triumph of Mr and Mrs Badenoch
When we used to think of Tory marriages, we mostly thought of when they went horribly wrong – when the…
Trump’s victory makes Miliband’s climate plans look even sillier
If you think Donald Trump’s victory is hard enough on Kamala Harris’s campaign staff, spare a thought for the world’s…
Is the Misinformation and Disinformation Bill coming for the Speccie?
‘The clear problem with the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism is…
Cutting HECS debt is not a win for young Australians
The federal government’s plan to use taxpayers’ money to wipe $16 billion off student loans was welcomed with fanfare by…
Remembering the 100 million killed in the name of communism
This week, the world watched the United States’ election results, recognising the importance of American democracy not just for its…
Triumph
Donald Trump has won the 2024 election and will be the 47th president of the United States. This magazine, alone…
Brown study
Marvellous Melbourne will give a closer focus to what is happening in that wonderful city and what we can learn…
Narrative robbery
So the silly season, the festive season when we celebrate the incarnation of the Good is looming, yet again, and…
Ausie life
‘Now, Jill, what would you like to be when you grow up?’ ‘I’d like to be an equal opportunity commissioner.’…
Language
A Speccie reader (Greg) has asked me to say something about the expression ‘AI’, meaning artificial intelligence. The expression is…
