The disgusting defacement of Lord Balfour’s painting
There’s a new movement in town: Philistines for Palestine. Not content with traipsing through the streets every other weekend to…
Australia Last: Albanese has billions for Asia, but nothing for you
Labor Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, was proud to announce his $2 billion investment in Southeast Asia following recommendations from the…
How Germany became a security liability
There were lots of smiles and some awkward football banter when German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock met her British counterpart…
The media’s lazy discourse on the gender pay gap
The so-called gender pay gap has been on everybody’s lips of late. The launch of WGEA’s comprehensive database has revealed…
Only Nigel Farage can save us now
When the Prime Minister cannot be bothered to listen to the Budget it sends out a pretty big signal to…
Labour’s ‘equalities’ dystopia
With Sir Keir Starmer creeping closer to No. 10 every day, attention is rightly being paid to the radicalism of…
Russia will not attack Nato
There is a lot of war fever about. In January, Grant Shapps, Britain’s tiggerish defence secretary, said the UK was…
Lost friendships are a painful price of the Ukraine war
One thing you learn about war, if you are close enough for it to touch you, is that it splits…
There will be consequences for American isolationism
Has the Republican Party’s isolationism caused American allies to doubt Washington’s commitment to safeguarding the global order that it put…
Puppet masters of the ALP: UN communist thugs and the militant Unions
Ocean Island, Central Pacific, 1964. Standing on a plank stage hanging off the side of a ship with another cadet,…
Beware the Nature Positive plan
Aesop warned the Greeks of the danger in about 520BC; Avianus repeated it for the Romans a century later. William…
Brown study
The long march though our institutions seems to be gathering pace. The latest targets are the courts and the judges…
Moody shifts of tone
It’s interesting to see a new production of The Sound of Music is on at the National Theatre (a somewhat…
Aussie life
The Banksy retrospective which has been drawing modest crowds to the basement of Sydney Town Hall in recent weeks is…
Language
Adam, a Speccie reader, asks about the familiar expression ‘face the music’ – meaning to face up to the consequences…
Biggest drop in living standards in two decades
First manufacturing, now mining and agriculture are targeted for ruin
