When told of the death of the philosopher David Armstrong, the Prime Minister Tony Abbott had this to say: ‘David…

I first met David Armstrong early in 1947 when, recently discharged from the Navy, he arrived at Sydney University and…

At going to press The Spectator Australia learnt of the death of David Armstrong, the greatest philosopher Australia has produced.…

You really have to go to Washington DC to see the decline and fall of the United States or at…

So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…

I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…

Bob Carr’s Diary of a Foreign Minister is further evidence for those who need it. Years ago the late John…

My modest proposal for the reform of the Labor party is to relieve Billy Shorten of his duties and make…

I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…

Until recently the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement was on its last legs in Australia. Few Australians had heard…

Cheers all round for Andrew Bolt who extracted an apology, however grudging, from the ABC for broadcasting false and defamatory…

An Aborigine, an Arab and a Jew enter a public bar. They look more worried than angry as they bear…