Keir Starmer says it best when he says nothing at all
There is a modern country music standard called ‘When You Say Nothing At All’. The song, taken to the top…
Why German farmers are taking on the ruling coalition
He wanted to get away from it all. The splendid solitude of the tiny North Sea island of Hooge was…
Is Japan finally embracing immigration?
Japan has long been known for its steadfast refusal to submit to the allure of large-scale immigration, as a country…
The dark side of Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina
Politics in Bangladesh is very much a one-woman show, starring prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has ruled the country for…
Why hasn’t Russia collapsed?
Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the calamitous, early missteps of the Russian army, many Western…
The sad world of the online influencer
Walid Sharks is taking a nasty beating at the AO Arena in Manchester. It’s the second round of his fight against…
George Floyd was no martyr
To write that George Floyd died is to take a position. The received belief is that he was murdered – a murder bigger, in…
Russia is still very much a security threat inside the UK
At 1.30 p.m. on 7 September 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident and BBC journalist, approached a bus stop at the…
Who cares about the FA Cup?
The third round of the FA Cup, underway this weekend, is one of the highlights of the football calendar –…
Epstein didn’t kill himself
After a lot of ‘will they, won’t they’ speculation, the notorious ‘Jeffrey Epstein’ documents have entered the public domain and…
Happy un-woke Year
Happy New Year? This magazine always tries to look on the bright side so let’s kick off with the positive…
Let’s be Cretans, not cretins
It is unity, not division, that makes us strong
Treasurers: good, bad, and accidental
From Frank to Jimbo
Unhappy woke New Year
Why does no one ever cancel the anti-Western vitriol?
Protocol of the elders of Lakemba
The late Grand Mufti preached deeply offensive views
Israel and a Hamas-free Gaza
What next?
War against New Zealanders
Labour’s legacy of booby traps for the Luxon government
Unreliable ally
We should have sent a ship to the Middle East
Erasing Aristotle
Xi happily rewrites his own history, so why not ours?
Post-Camelot demise of the centre left
JFK would not recognise his party
Maestro Bernstein
What do we know about Leonard Bernstein, who did everything to popularise classical music and wrote the Broadway classic West…
Aussie life
Australia is becoming a secular society. Religion of the boring old traditional type our grandparents followed is on the way…
Language
A Speccie reader in Canberra (what has he done to deserve capital punishment?) asks the origin of the latest label…
Greatest leader since Ronald Reagan
Supreme Court must act to avoid disaster
