The Tories are in free fall
A couple of weeks ago we were told it was Rishi Sunak’s best week ever. Now, it is hard to…
Why won’t phone companies stop kids using social media?
When it comes to social media, parents find it difficult enough to keep up with their offspring’s online world. What…
What price is too high to keep conservatives in the Church of England?
Future historians of the Church of England might look back at this weekend as the beginning of the end. A…
Quantum of decline
On too many fronts, our civilisation and our decency are crumbling before our eyes. The beauty, of course, of the…
Brown study
Here at the Spectator Australia Political Research Institute we have been grappling with the most contentious issue that is currently …
Dark and crooked byways
Isn’t it strange that the new television, the television of the streamers which has dominated our world since Covid, has…
Aussie life
As the terrible events in Bondi Junction last month reminded us, fortune doesn’t always favour the brave. Indeed, the courage…
Language
Speccie reader Terry writes to ask when and where did ‘non-binary’ come into the language – and who applied it…
Do voters really prefer Starmer?
Rishi Sunak has been widely ridiculed for trying to spin the local election results as bad news for Keir Starmer.…
How to solve ‘range anxiety’
In ‘The Adventure of Silver Blaze’, Sherlock Holmes mentions ‘the curious incident of the dog in the night-time’. ‘But the…
Dear Mary: what should I do if a fellow passenger is reading porn?
Q. On a recent short-haul flight, I had the misfortune to be seated next to a much older man who…
Do sparks really fly?
‘Sparks,’ said my husband, after a short pause. I had asked him what one could spark. His answer was true…
