Will Angela Rayner take her own advice?
It seems Angela Rayner is in hot water again. The Labour deputy leader might have thought she had escaped unscathed…
US businesses are falling out of love with Xi’s Chinese dream
A US diplomat in Beijing once told me a story of an American businessman hospitalised in the city of Ningbo…
NeverTrumpers have found a way to hit Donald where it hurts
With Donald Trump confirmed as the Republican nominee, a group of NeverTrump conservatives have tried to hit the former president…
The Great Covid Debate
Recently, dedicated vaccine supporter Jack the Insider took on NSW Libertarian MP John Ruddick, who has opposed Covid vaccines from…
Tales of a Hollywood dissident, with Matthew Marsden
Politics is downstream from culture. To change politics, one must first change culture. The left intrinsically understands this in a…
Australian Universities Accord to take the hammer to TAFE
Amid an acute nationwide worker shortage, only the political class in Canberra would propose something as counterproductive as the takeover…
Is corporate Australia ashamed of Easter?
This week, Holy Week for Christians, I went to a Westfield shopping mall in Melbourne. Being the week before Easter,…
Galloway suggests Obama involvement in Moscow attack
The fall-out continues from Friday’s attack on Moscow concert hall attack in which 139 people were reported dead. Russian officials…
Britain is falling out of love with the NHS
Rishi Sunak doesn’t speak much about his five priorities these days, apart from inflation, which ‘halved’ as promised. On NHS…
Why did a judge fall for Abdul Ezedi’s lie that he was a Christian?
Abdul Ezedi is dead and gone. The Clapham acid attacker was laid to rest in a Muslim burial at a…
Tories split on CCHQ attack ads
It’s five weeks to go until the local elections and Tory high command are stepping up their attacks. On Monday,…
The painful truth about Gareth Southgate’s England
Football, so they say, is a results business – except when it comes to Gareth Southgate, the England manager. In…
Why North Korea hates Alan Titchmarsh’s jeans
Alan Titchmarsh presumably did not expect to see his programme Garden Secrets, filmed in 2010, air on North Korean state television this…
The UAE bid for The Spectator is over
In the end, it was watertight. A new law has been just voted through the Lords banning foreign governments from…
I’ve done very well, says Rishi Sunak at select committee grilling
Normally when a select committee hearing or interview is described as ‘wide-ranging’, it’s because a lot was said, but none…
The art of ugliness
All art is political, said Orwell. To say otherwise is a political statement. In a time of mass society and…
The era of informed consent is over
In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified…
How can we avoid another Batley Grammar blasphemy row?
Dame Sara Khan, the government’s adviser on social cohesion, has produced a powerful and brave report with some stark findings…
Mass migration and state ‘Voices’ fuel distrust in democracy
Opinion polls from around the world show an accelerating decline in trust in democracy. In a recent American poll, only…
The Youth Parliament makes children of us all
When the British Youth Council (BYC) announced last week its imminent closure, people went near-hysterical, declaring it ‘devastating’ news and…
Ad-free media? There is no ad-free media…
Commercial media promotes goods, services, functions, and political messages for those prepared to pay for these services. The government-owned ABC…
The British farmers’ tractor protest may just be the start
As you tuck into a leg of roast lamb this Bank Holiday weekend, consider how religious festivals are a boon…
Carbon Pawprints: North Korea has gone to the dogs, and so have environmentalists
In 2020, the dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-Un, ordered the confiscation of dogs owned by those living in the…
Valdo Calocane didn’t get away with murder
On Monday, the HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate (HMCPSI) released a report on the CPS’s actions in the case of Valdo…
Week in 60 Minutes S2E8: The Age of Conspiracy and rise of the militant unions… Professor David Flint, Nick Hossack, Stuart Ballantyne
Albanese’s rule has had a nasty side effect … the resurrection of the militant union movement. Between a powerful collective…
