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Mr Neil’s visit
The visit to these shores, the furthest-flung and smallest outpost of the transatlantic Spectator empire, by our chairman Andrew Neil,…
Making Donald Great Again
The news that a ‘kangaroo court’ has decided to charge Donald Trump with a pile of spurious charges from many…
Climate wars rekindled
So, apparently the climate wars aren’t over quite yet. Thank goodness for that! That’s not us rekindling the battle, by…
Clown show
From preposterously clownish Nazis to battery-powered campaign buses that have to be ditched in favour of diesel alternatives, the political…
Once upon a time
Once upon a time there lived a generation who believed they knew far more about the world than their elders…
Covid abuses
The latest revelations out of Britain regarding the grotesque abuse of power during Covid make for very disturbing reading. As…
Snowy 2.0h yuk!
Lobb’s Hole doesn’t exactly sound the most appealing of places, and indeed it may well be the graveyard where Australia’s…
Super villains
Climate wars? Solved! Energy wars? Done and dusted. Culture wars? Sorted. The Albanese government’s blueprint is now clear: declare that…
King, a canary in the coal mine?
‘We won’t get to net-zero emissions in this country, or indeed the world, without the resources sector, without gas, and…
Empire-bashing
Britain has become an irresistible target in recent times for sneering condemnation of its historical period of Empire, even in…
Lubricating his Voice
Before they were even elected – and in fervent hope that they wouldn’t be – this magazine warned that an…
Voice of hypocrites
A hurried visit by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to Alice Springs this week highlights everything that is wrong with his…
A land of progress
As Australia Day comes around, battle lines are again being drawn by self-described ‘progressives’ who refuse to see anything to…
Tall poppy
At six feet, four inches, Cardinal George Pell was a man who towered above his peers, literally as well as…
Happy New Year?
The month of January is named for the Roman deity Janus, a god with two faces who looks back to…
Tidings of comfort & joy
‘God rest ye merry, gentlemen, let nothing you dismay…’ Easier said than done, of course, at the end of a…
Going with the vibe
It has taken three decades for The Castle chooks to finally come home to roost. The 1997 film, one of…
The Senator v. the Voice
With any luck, Australia should have its first indigenous prime minister within our lifetimes and it will be a conservative…
Grand Theft Albo
In the run-up to the last federal election, Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen promised repeatedly that they would slash Australia’s…
Unreasonable
In the 1980s movie Rain Man, the autistic Dustin Hoffman reliably informed Tom Cruise that Qantas was the safest airline…
The Dummy
Not since Howard Carter risked the curse of the Pharaohs to plunder the pyramids a hundred years ago this month…
Covid amnesty, anyone?
Forgiveness is now officially on the Covid menu. The left-leaning Atlantic magazine in the US has called for a ‘pandemic…
The coal miner’s Diamonds
Gina Rinehart was correct to withdraw the extraordinarily generous $15 million she had donated to Netball Australia following a severe…
Labor and the Jews
You gotta hand it to them. Unlike the Coalition, the leaders of the Labor party have no problem whatsoever prosecuting…
Owning Science
‘We own The Science and we think that the world should know it.’ Those were the words of the UN…
