In defence of Brewdog
Brewdog, the Scotland-based brewery that has exploded into an international business in the last 15 years, is never far from…
There’s another dodgy data scandal brewing
The government is reeling from the Post Office Horizon scandal. ‘Lessons must be learnt’, goes the cry around Westminster. But…
How the Houthis can frustrate the West
On Thursday, the United States and the United Kingdom launched two rounds of strikes against 72 Houthi targets in Yemen…
Ceding sovereignty?
What decision-making role will the Australian Parliament have in relation to the proposed International Health Regulations amendments? There’s a debate raging…
In praise of Sven-Goran Eriksson
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has revealed that he has cancer and, ‘at best’, about a year to live. The…
‘Sir’ Ed Davey’s Lib Dems are the real nasty party
Growing up in 1970s working-class Bristol (before it went all poke: posh and woke) life was so tribal that you…
The vast corruption of Ukraine’s sanctions regime
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, a former US government official visited Kiev to inquire how he could help to supply…
The Tory party’s empty legacy
It was Evelyn Waugh who dismissed the Tories as having ‘never put the clock back a single second’. Now, even…
We’re back, and the Liberal Party are terrified
The AEC has dealt the Liberal Party an embarrassing blow, rejecting its objection to the registration of our political movement…
How the World Economic Forum’s ‘Young Global Leaders’ find their way to the top
The French found out on Thursday evening that, under their new prime minister, nothing will change in the way their…
Adrift in perilous seas
In the torpor of the silly season, when sensible Australians are enjoying barbies in the great outdoors, the Albanese government…
Blind Freddie sees what governments cannot
We need a return to common sense
The West is already at war
We risk losing power because we are being outsmarted by our opponents
2024 – the year of living dangerously
Slouching donkey, limping dragon, drunken bear
Beware Xi’s iron fist
China has been gravely weakened but that makes it more dangerous
Invasion of Taiwan not imminent
Xi cannot be assured of success
Arguing with the woke left
Like wrestling an eel
DEIndividualising our universities
Treating people unequally on the basis of race is racism
Business/Robbery, etc
Are Teals sitting ducks on solar-panelled rooftops?
The identity trap
The rush to judgment fuels the fire of intolerance
Barbie’s bombshell
Who would have thought the beery blokey jukebox musical The Choir of Man at Melbourne’s Playhouse would be such an…
Language
Raymond, a Speccie reader, has coined a new (and possibly very useful) word: ‘twistory’. This neologism is another portmanteau word,…
Fake republic doomed
Government puts referendum off to the never-never
