How London’s Docklands became the Eton of the crime world
When Hatton Garden Heist ‘mastermind’ Brian Reader died aged 84 in 2023, it was estimated that he had made £200…
‘Terrible but magnificent’: the life and times of playwright John Osborne
With the news the Almeida Theatre is to stage John Osborne’s 1956 play Look Back in Anger this Autumn as…
Queensland’s shock and awe Budget
The Queensland Budget released this Tuesday marks the beginning of the 2024 state election campaign. The nine-year-old QLD Labor government…
Farage factor anchors Reform’s fight to save Britain
The Farage factor is inbound and on board for the July 4 UK General Election in what is fast becoming…
Climate furphies
At the heart of the Paris Agreement is a major furphy, certainly as far as Australia is concerned. Namely, that…
A moveable centre
The culture wars are every bit as important as the economic ones
There’s a faction too much friction
Can Josh Frydenberg come back?
I’ve been travelling in the car
Excuses, excuses
Safety, justice and retribution
The morality of the war against Hamas
The ICC’s legitimacy and integrity deficits
The globalist order is floundering
Big trouble with human rights
When a change in the weather spells a change in the law
A triumph of hope over experience
Let’s acknowledge the UN has ceased to serve the interests of the West
EU climate knaves and follies
No lessons for Chris Bowen from Europe’s Greenlash
Bebop, swing and all that jazz
I can still remember the first time I heard big band jazz. I was in my twenties (too long ago!)…
This shimmering desert haze
There’s something inspiring about getting an example of the national talent locking horns with the glory of traditional high culture,…
Aussie life
I’m in a nursing home. It’s St Vincent’s, Australia’s biggest not-for-profit aged care provider, one of several in Brisbane run…
Language
A Speccie reader asks for a word that explains the obsessions of the woke around us. Looking for a single…
Disastrous governments in Washington and Canberra
Parties neutralise constitutional remedies
Why an ex-Spectator editor told me to back Reform
When I told an ex-editor of this magazine that I was planning to write about why I’m voting for Reform…
Don’t let City spoil top-flight football
The Pac-Man defence, as all high-flying financiers know, is a tactic borrowed from the enjoyably addictive computer game which means…
