• The Spectator Australia

    We all know what it means when someone is said to have been ‘thrown under the bus’ by their colleagues – they have been chosen to cop all the criticism and blame for something that is a bit

  • The Spectator Australia

    It’s been a long time since the beer garden of the iconic Oaks Hotel in Sydney’s Neutral Bay lost all but one of the trees it was named for. So you might think that its patrons would at some stage

  • The Spectator Australia

    White phosphorus, asbestos, and N Sync. History is replete with examples of horrible inventions. The aforementioned list includes some of…What to read next: Would you buy an EV from this man? | Vandalism of the decolonisers | Libs must play to win | Senate to investigate excess mortality

  • The Spectator Australia

    In Canada the Conservative party opposition leader, Pierre Poilievre, plays to win. By that I mean that he takes the…What to read next: State Libs go cuckoo | Fight the culture wars, Libs! | How to win as a conservative | Can Trump win?

  • The Spectator Australia

    Despite decades of endless shrieking over emissions, Just Stop Oil protests blocking peak-hour traffic to the fury of commuters, children…What to read next: Vandalism of the decolonisers | Libs must play to win | Senate to investigate excess mortality | Climate frauds, fools, fads and fashions

  • The Spectator Australia

    The best advice when you are in a hole is to stop digging. But this obvious recommendation clearly hasn’t sunk…What to read next: Vandalism of the decolonisers | Libs must play to win | Senate to investigate excess mortality | Climate frauds, fools, fads and fashions

  • The Spectator Australia

    In April 2018 I was taken on a coach through miles of war-wasted urban landscape in the Syrian cities of…What to read next: Who’s to blame for Scotland’s ferry fiasco? | The recklessness of William Wragg | The plot to stop Marine Le Pen could backfire badly | Civil servants can’t down tools if they don’t like Israel

  • The Spectator Australia

    State government bans on gas connections to new premises have caused confusion among their respective constituents, and outrage among stakeholders.…What to read next: ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’ | The cheap renewable thrill of climate protests | Voiceless in Victoria: farmers horrified by renewable energy fast-tracking | Renewable enthusiasts are panicking about Dutton’s genius nuclear plan

  • The Spectator Australia

    ‘Everyone was Charlie for about a minute.’ So said Douglas Murray in the years following the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks.…What to read next: 40,000 lives lost for what? | Elites’ war on Hiluxland | Pluck of the Irish | Business/Robbery, etc

  • The Spectator Australia

    This will sound familiar to Australians. A leftist government makes a core part of its agenda persuading voters to ‘modernise’…What to read next: 40,000 lives lost for what? | Elites’ war on Hiluxland | Europe’s anti-Green farmers’ revolt | War stories

  • The Spectator Australia

    I have been much taken by recent opinion pieces in the media that people are drifting away from the established churches and towards smaller outfits of the happy-clappy variety. And although they are