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 …
Tory voters on strike
Britain’s grim march to Labour
Quantum delusions
Maths shows how quantum computing hopes are fantasies
Return of the MFP
And other such rubbish
Oppression, dispossession and massacres
Welcome to classroom Victoria
Save the planet
On averting a Lake Nyos-style catastrophic gas explosion
Fatties for a Free Palestine
The West’s useful idiots are being useful again
Gay Rex
The collapse of our moral universe was predictable
Asia’s new flashpoint
Is an armed attack on the Philippines possible?
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…
Anti-Semitism is now government policy
Labor’s disgrace
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…
Dense, melancholic, hypnotic: Brighde Chaimbeul, at Summerhall, reviewed
The hip end of the folk spectrum is in rude health right now. Dublin’s mighty Lankum lead the way, but…
Save us from the plague of plastic tree protectors
Can nothing protect us from a plague of plastic tree protectors? They’ve descended on us like locusts, covering our hills,…
