What the ACT election tells us about our rulers in the Bubble
Last weekend’s ACT election results have again revealed how out of touch our nation’s capital city is with mainstream Australians.…
EXCLUSIVE: Are the ADF’s pandemic operations breaching its own guidelines?
The Spectator Australia has seen a copy of the Defence Department’s un-redacted Defence Assistance to the Civil Community manual which…
Our very woke Wallabies
Having gotten rid of their star black player, the Australian rugby team is set to take a knee at the…
National Water Week reveals a policy drought
This is National Water Week. Its theme is “Reimagining our Water Future”. Proclaiming water to be one of the seven…
Judgement time
When does an error in judgement cost someone their job? It depends. If it is Gladys Berejiklian, you are safe. If…
The Murdoch Royal Commission is one man’s inadequacy
There is an unpleasant screaming and stamping of feet coming from isle three where a toddler has been divested of…
Was Judas the world’s first socialist?
While readers of The Spectator Australia may not usually find themselves immersed in discussions of the Bible and theology, they would routinely have waded into important contributions here on…
Wake up before the Woke wear you down
These are strange days when a woman cannot stand up for women’s rights. It is wrong. The bra-burners of the…
The path between herd immunity and lockdown
In four decades working as an engineer and scientist, I have rarely known a more polarised time within the scientific…
A historically accurate pollster puts the presidential race within the margin of error
Election polling has been largely consistent since the pandemic hit the US: Joe Biden is the heavy favorite. But one…
Trump sealed the deal last night
First, let me pay brief homage to Kristen Welker, moderator of Thursday night’s debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.…
Can dynastic restoration revive Lebanese fortunes?
Once more Lebanon is in crisis, and once more its leaders turn to what they most understand to solve things:…
No logic please, we’re Leftists
Leftists have herd immunity to humour. Nowhere is this more evident than with ABC ‘comedy’ (there’s a series impending that…
Hippocrates cancelled
How can they sleep at night? Or face themselves in the mirror in the morning? I ask the question ‘triggered’…
My pick? A narrow Trump win
It is not just the usual suspects at the ABC and in the Fairfax press who seem to have Trump…
Ciggie smugglers making a killing
A Malaysian woman was recently sentenced to two years in an Australian jail for orchestrating a sophisticated money laundering and…
Falling for Daryl
In the 1954 horror film, Creature from the Black Lagoon, a monster emerges from a murky backwater of the Amazon,…
As history fades into history
My son is more at risk of becoming a victim of the ‘march through the institutions’ than I ever was.…
Cashless in Alice
Income Management and the Cashless Debit Card (CDC) have long faced opposition from those who claim that not allowing welfare…
Biden: Beijing’s candidate
Australia’s elites would prefer Beijing’s candidate, Joe Biden in the White House, it seems. But, unlike 2016, at least a…
Orson Welles
The journals of the plague year from the point of view of culture are getting weirder and weirder from Daniel…
Opera Australia’s Attila before shutdown in March
Attila the Hun might have been hard to stop but Verdi’s opera Attila was stopped in its tracks at the…
Too much of nothing
In the world of the arts, some things keep on even in this time of impossibility which the virus has…
Josh Frydenberg
There has been a fair bit of bleating from sectors claiming to have been ignored in the Budget; in fact…
Tom Bower pulls his punches with his life of Boris Johnson
Tom Bower explains in his acknowledgements that this is not an authorised biography and he did not seek Boris Johnson’s…
The gospel of separation according to Malcolm X
In late April 1962 Los Angeles police shot and killed an unarmed black man, Ronald X Stokes, during a disturbance…
Sarah Maslin Nir enjoys the rides of a lifetime
The appeal of a book called Horse Crazy risks being limited to those who are. Yet many moments in Sarah…
The scholars who solved the riddles in the sands
In 1835 the first two Egyptian antiquities were registered in the British Museum: a pair of red granite lions from…
Cyber apocalypse: The Silence, by Don DeLillo, reviewed
Elaborated over a writing career that spans half a century — a career crowned with every honour save the Nobel…
The power behind The Few: Rolls-Royce’s Merlin engine
Eighty years ago this summer Britain was facing its greatest moment of peril as Göring’s Luftwaffe attacked airfields, cities and…
Looking for love: Ghosts, by Dolly Alderton
Of all the successful modern female writers documenting their search for love, none has been as endearing as Dolly Alderton.…
We should never take our daily bread for granted
In the seventh and final chapter of this small but lingeringly powerful book, the author reveals his motivation for writing…