Morrison, Dutton and the Coalition
Over here in London, politics is boiling down to a battle between perfidity (of Theresa May, her Remainer-stacked Cabinet and…
Sports notes
Tennis as progressive ideology As I have made clear once or twice already in the pages of this august magazine,…
Lefty francophiles
What is it about left-leaning elites (so the significant preponderance of today’s ‘elite’ class) and France? It’s hard not to…
Here’s the recipe for success
After a family Christmas in Canada my wife and I are now in London for half a year. It’s been…
Australian notes
Students lacking the basics I am a law professor at the University of Queensland, a G8 university and one of…
Sleight of hand of the ‘moderates’
Ever heard of the wonderful American magician team of Penn & Teller? My son and I saw them in Vegas…
The waffly centre won’t hold
I am writing this the morning after the Liberal party’s election fiasco in Victoria. And yet again we have more…
Conservative notes
Why don’t the Libs fight to win? Imagine that in getting your public affairs news you were restricted to the…
And then there was one…
Exit, stage right, Ross Cameron. Sky TV has fired its second Outsiders host. This time the charge was racism and…
Morrison in the middle
So here’s a big picture question for all of you readers who see yourselves as generally being right-of-centre voters. What…
Can ScoMo escape Turnbull’s shadow?
Questions of causation are notoriously tricky as well as being highly susceptible to confirmation bias – in this context that…
Injun Liz Warren and echoes of Bolt
If you’ve been following American politics in the last few days you’ll have read about Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren’s confrontation…
The Left vs Reasonable Doubt
At the risk of propelling readers to throw down this wonderful magazine in despair and shift to watching the latest…
Kiwi notes
The adoration of Ms Ardern I am just back from a week in New Zealand where my family and I…
Trump’s toughness
Let’s talk quotas, ignoring social media morons and Trump’s toughness. The first topic has to do with all those laments…
Conservative notes
The Right is cleaving Take a look at right-of-centre political parties in the Anglosphere. In Canada things are bad, very…
It was 10 years ago today…
I have been a regular to semi-regular writer for The Spectator Australia pretty much from the start and for all…
Del-Con Notes
I am outraged to learn you’ve cheated on me, absolutely outraged’, says the husband to his wife. Only the man…
Reef notes
In for a penny, in for half a billion bucks Okay, here’s an observation that ought to disturb you. Former…
The end of the beginning
So Malcolm Turnbull finally made a tactically wise move and vacated the leadership to bring on the Peter Dutton challenge…
Young or old, too many Liberal backbenchers won’t stand for principle
I knew things were bad with the federal Liberal Party but I didn’t know things were this bad. You see…
Dear Jymbo
Dear Jymbo, I am a sad and disgruntled Liberal party member of parliament in Canberra. I thought I was being…
Having a list
For the past week I’ve been in my native Canada, aka the epicentre of TDS – Trump Derangement Syndrome. In…
How’s that dissing the del-cons going?
So we’re now well into year three of the Team Turnbull Labor Lite experiment as Malcolm Turnbull – a big…
May day for Brexit
I confess to being incredibly naive. After the 23 June 2016 Brexit referendum when 1.7 million more Britons voted for…
