Nigel Farage’s Tory manifesto
I’d say that Nigel Farage gave the best performance in last night’s debate. You might expect that: he’s a full-time…
Australia’s ‘triple-demic’ of Covid, flu, and RSV – experts baffled
The Covid policy wizards are baffled again. In Australia, some 98 per cent of the population have had at least…
Why was George Orwell a socialist?
When George Orwell’s publisher, Fredric Warburg, read the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four in December 1948 he wrote a rapturous report to his…
The troubling truth about the Greens
Wind farms. Heat pumps. Hamas apologism. It’s a curious combination, but one that an alarmingly high number of Green party…
Can a government dating app solve Japan’s birth crisis?
The Tokyo metropolitan government has announced that it will soon be in the online matchmaking business. It is launching a…
A short history of cricket in Ukraine
Since the start of Vladimir Putin’s cold-blooded invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the stories and images being broadcast from the…
Vaccines? Excess deaths? Any link?
Is this the first significant crack in the dam? This week, the UK Telegraph ran a story that should be…
Phantom of her own career
Sunset Boulevard is one of the weirdest entertainment phenomena in the history of the world because it starts as a…
Aussie life
Encomium or insult, tribute or travesty; the line between portrait and caricature can be a very fine one. Readers who…
Language
This is an appeal to Speccie readers to join a modest campaign to ban the use of ‘begs the question’.…
Those magnificent men and their stargazing machines
Violet Moller focuses on three 16th-century‘heroes of science’, John Dee, Nicolaus Copernicus and Tycho Brahe, and their great libraries and observatories
The joy of Portuguese wines
There was a wonderful old boy called John – Sir John – Wordie, who was a quintessential member of the…
The moment Starmer lost control of the Labour left
‘Tony Blair walks on water.’ Decades ago this statement led a Times photographer and me to the front door of…
