Palestinian leaders prefer to keep their people suffering to peace. Again
So, the Arab League has rejected the latest United States Middle East Peace Plan. So, what’s new, I hear you…
PVO and the great republican two-step stumble
While Australia’s constitution was finally approved — ratified — by the Australian colonial people in 1900, the process of choosing…
Sussexit? So what? We’re governed by the people and the parliament, not celebrities
When Aristotle wrote his treatise on politics, he explained in some detail his most practical regime, the one that was…
Putting the Christ back into politics: a Christmas message for the PM
Dear Prime Minister I trust you will not take offence at my presuming to give you advice, particularly since your…
Christian Porter: no more free speech, thank you very much
Despite all the arguments made and support garnered for a constitutional amendment that would guarantee our freedom of speech and…
Freedom of speech guarantees your right to know
The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution contains the following words: Congress shall make…
Sorry Margaret, but you’re a thought criminal
According to the Nine Network and its tedious tabloids, Margaret Court is causing headlines again by demanding that she receive…
God and the Rock – and our parliament and liberties
If there is one thing that I agree most whole-heartedly with, it is the need to let people speak their…
God and the Rock
Religion is a serious business. It used to command our lives and our attention, albeit the latter only weekly. Still,…
Don’t patronise us with ‘your right to know’. Everyone’s right to free speech comes first
If you have been following the ‘right to know’ discussion here and elsewhere, you will probably have purchased a newspaper…
Where’s the campaign for our right to free speech and against 18c, not just ‘our right to know’?
Just two months, The Spectator published my explanation of the distinction between the right to know and the right to…
How Boris can beat the remoaners (and wipe the smile off Bercow’s face)
Brexit is an unholy mess for Boris but if he were to take advice from downstairs, or Down Under, he…
It’s not Churchill you should follow, Boris, but Washington
Well, Boris flopped. Last night, the House of Commons was manoeuvred by a Remainer MP to delay consideration of his…
Extinction Rebellion and all the latest rage in cataclysm
Hypocrite: One who falsely professes to be virtuously or religiously inclined; one who pretends to be other and better than…
Alexander Downer and his friends in high places
It’s always nice to know one has friends in high places. Speaking for the Australian government, our Ambassador to the…
Mueller, Pelosi, impeachment and Trump — and a real Downer
There was an article in the American press a few days ago in which the author explained that unity is…
Nous sommes tout les Fredos
Ou es tu, Fredo? Wo bist du, Fredo? Where are you hiding? Where does one hide the idiot brother of…
Brexit: judges might be learned, but they’ve been outwitted by ruthless remoaner pols
The decision of the British Supreme Court regarding the Queen’s order to prorogue Parliament contains the following: The 17th century was a…
Boris, Brexit, the courts – and the ghost of Gough Whitlam, laughing
There is an interesting debate going on in the British courts which could have lasting ramifications for the practices of…
Abortion euphemisms
National Public Radio is the United States equivalent of the ABC, broadcast by the ABC every day of the week.…
Free speech first, then the right to know
As most Speccie readers would know, I stand unashamedly for free speech; even speech that might offend or insult. Speech…
Je suis Fredo
I have pondered for some time why President Trump is so disliked by all the mainstream media. I am using…
The NSW abortion ambush: sacrificing humanity to wokeness
There is something slavish in the legislative efforts of the Australian state governments to pander to the demands of selfish…
Will Kristina Keneally join the Hong Kong barricades if the PLA tanks come?
If you have been following the news cycle in the USA, you will be aware of the mass shootings that…
It mightn’t be sexy, but manufacturing got us to the moon
Almost forty years ago, in fact, during the time of the Hawke Labor government, Australia fell for a pea and…
