The failure of the Islamic Human Rights Commission at a time of national division
The heinous crime extinguishing the lives of three young British girls in a dance class in Southport reverberated across the…
What should Keir Starmer do about Elon Musk?
How should the Labour government deal with Elon Musk? It’s a question that Keir Starmer has been grappling with since…
Why Britain must say no – again – to China’s ‘super embassy’ in London
The previous Tory government may not have been very successful in containing the global ambitions of China, but at least…
Is the Great Barrier Reef really dying?
The Great Barrier Reef is, of course, dying – a victim of humans’ hubris and callousness towards the natural world.…
Javier Milei wants AI to predict crime
In the sci-fi movie Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a police officer investigating ‘pre-crimes’ – those which are yet to happen, but are predicted…
Thailand’s democracy is a sham
Democracy is dying in Thailand, or perhaps it’s already dead. Thailand’s constitutional court this week ordered the dissolution of the…
The enduring wisdom of Bill Brand
If Labour is taking us back to the 1970s – and the recent strike-secured pay rises and mass rage about…
Israel’s school strike has triggered an information war
An Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza in the early hours of this morning has once again triggered an…
My Guinness experience
Eat your heart out Chelsea Hotel. Some years ago, Berlusconi’s Guinness TV flew me to stay in an Italian hotel…
Starmer’s riot troubles aren’t over yet
Sir Keir Starmer is turning out to be something of a lucky general. The Prime Minister appears to have passed…
American diplomacy might not stop a Middle East war
On the face of it, the assassination of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July was a brilliant,…
Will Erdogan go on and on?
Today marks ten years since Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected president. There will be no celebrations, and Turkish media may…
Franklin Roosevelt was made in world war one
Many of those around Franklin Roosevelt were puking their guts out – but he could not have been happier. It…
Does Australia have a crocodile problem?
During the cold months of July and August, many southern Australians head north to warmer climes. A favourite destination is…
Albo’s intersectional economics
At the Garma festival in Arnhem land recently, the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, reached peak woke stupidity. The…
Albanese’s dangerous scheme exposed
Constitution circumvented
Language
A Speccie reader has been in touch to complain about the use of the expressions ‘wind farm’ and ‘solar farm’.…
Aussie life
Off the beach of Ipanema where the tall and tanned girls go, they’ve found Brazilian sharks with cocaine in their…
The standard of beauty
Maxim Vengerov is touted as one of the world’s greatest violinists, the kind of musician who can fill Carnegie Hall…
Pathway to terror?
Immigration versus the raised terror alerts
Punch Judy
The Olympics’ low blow to boxing
Macron’s gift to Le Pen
Olympics opening ceremony fiasco again shows his shocking judgment
Assistant Minister for a Banana Republic
Albanese is destroying the Australian economy
How Covid broke our trust in the medical profession
...and why the media shares much of the blame
The cancerous CFMEU
How safety rules have become the new strike action
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