Features Australia
Here we go again
You don’t need a crystal ball to tell you that the next costly national distraction after the gay marriage circus…
Sex and gender in the British Empire, anyone?
In 440 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus broke with tradition by collecting primary sources and then systematically and…
Getting to the bottom of the military
But just how diverse and inclusive were the Aztecs?
Free votes: a free reform
When the dispiriting kabuki theatre that is the same-sex marriage survey finally reaches its denouement next month, focus will again…
Chesterton’s prophesy
To step back and take a broad view of history is to see a constant and almost incessant Muslim onslaught…
Business/Robbery etc
BHP’s green-aligned sabotage of the Mineral Council of Australia’s battle to save the Australian coal industry cannot be explained simply…
Climate excuses
Tony Abbott may have annoyed the climate change mob with his speech in London (see Diary), but a far more…
Decaying one day, enchanting the next
The private island resort of Bedarra was once a byword for excess: champagne baths were not unheard of. But when…
Energy robber barons
The car industry were amateurs compared to these guys. During the last great assistance package to the car sector, the…
A world without Christianity
Not all homosexuals are cowering in corners as they suffer the dreaded hate speech of the same-sex marriage debate; indeed,…
Kiwi cargo cult
Driving south from Auckland you might well ask why the big volcanoes are spread all over the North Island unlike…
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
The Peking duck arrived on a platter the size of a solar dish and the party of prosperous retired couples…
In space, no one can hear you screaming for cash
Such is the mystique of Elon Musk that he is able to make the absurd declarations that he will launch…
Another Trek
Paul Swart, 86, was a kind man of great compassion and his face mirrored those qualities. Mr Swart helped 30…
The war we don’t know how to fight
One day, perhaps before it is too late, Turnbull, Brandis, Shorten and co. and their fellow members of the political…
Tim’s tawdry trick
As the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So naturally, when the…
Playlgbtiq
I keep turning a thought over and over in my head: What would we think of Hugh Hefner if he…
Business/Robbery etc
Sound commercial practice for marketing and industrial relations reasons? Self-indulgent directorial virtue-signalling for status purposes? Fear of retaliation by activists…
Bad sex
Australian universities appear to have completely capitulated to the virulently anti-male propaganda of radical feminists. Feminists increasingly control what is…
Insane expectations
Politics has always been a notoriously unstable activity but over recent years this has been accentuated by several long-accepted rules…
The great, needless Liberal fault line
One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done, for better or worse, is to highlight the deep differences within Australia’s…
Convention of Outsiders
Confidence in our political system has collapsed, as the internationally respected 2017 Edelman Trust Barometer records. Politicians usually justify our…
Split NZ
The only thing that can be said with any certainty about the next New Zealand government is that it will…
A Millenial changes her mind
Spectator Australia contributor Anne Gallagher is currently overseas and received this letter from her 17-year old daughter. It is reproduced…
The inconvenient truth about Al Gore
A decade ago Al Gore released his documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Second only to 9/11 it was the decade’s most…
