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The science of comfort food
A Jewish woman had two chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one…
Never a more exciting time to be an Australian conservative
Centre-right social progressives might not like social conservatism. But there has never been a more exciting time to be an…
Cory’s conservative crusade is misguided
Since the Coalition’s woeful election campaign, and Malcolm Turnbull’s less than brilliant result capped by his election night diatribe, Liberal…
Dallas, denial and the pathology of evil
Overnight, Australian time, President Obama has paid an official visit to Dallas in the wake of the five fatal shootings…
Liberals must take back their party – and how to do it
Malcolm Turnbull’s knifing of Tony Abbott is proven to be a disaster, not only for the Liberal Party but also…
Theresa May and the wake of Project Sneer
Project Fear became in the end, as Daniel Hannan described it, ‘Project Sneer’. The massed legions of banks, multinationals, the…
Wot no Kevvie?
In all the excitement of the Brexit referendum, the presidential election and our own nail-biter poll we appear to have…
Time for Australian Conservatives to get it together
Australian Conservatives were told by Liberal Party pollster Mark Textor they had nowhere else to go when they expressed their…
Groupthink in the media and political classes
Never have so few done so little for so many. That more or less sums up our political class in…
Rediscovering law and order
The first duties of governments are to defend the realm, secure the borders and maintain the Queen’s peace, that is…
Turnbull – all for nothing by Richard Ferguson
Imagine you’re Malcolm Turnbull for a second (you might need to see a psychiatrist after the exercise). You have destroyed…
How many like me?
So to all those Liberal MPs, and perhaps to Barnaby Joyce and the Nats, here’s something you need to consider,…
How Malcolm’s mates let him down
As I type, Malcolm Turnbull’s media allies are no doubt gearing up to blame the ‘Del-Cons’ for the humiliating defeat…
Labor: Putting Unions First
Fifty-five years ago, unionist turned Labor leader Arthur Calwell lost the second-closest election in Australian history running on the mantra…
The left’s pre-poll assault on faith and freedom
I’m often told that it was “for my sins” that I was elected to the board of directors of Shire Christian…
Polling failure and fraud
Apart from empowering the British people and returning sovereignty to the United Kingdom, Brexit has exploded the myth that betting markets…
Gay Marriage – what the plebiscite question should be
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the 2011 census found about 33,700 same-sex couples in Australia. About 17,600 couples…
Will July 2 give us a dinky-di UKIP of our own?
The most intriguing and under-reported titbit that emerged from last year’s #libspill came in the form of an offhand comment…
A democratic future for the 75 per cent
You needed only to look at the headlines to realise things had not gone to plan. They were damning; Time…
Sod the Scots (and Australian reporting of Brexit)
Apparently the Scottish are taking their cues from Sir Oswald Mosley these days. Following the destruction of fascism in World…
Don’t take health care reform off the election agenda
Monetarism: tick. De-nationalisation of industry: tick. Europe: big new tick. The results of the Brexit referendum are more significant than…
Labor’s love-hate relationship
Despite the media’s classification of 2016 as a close run contest modern Labor is performing at an historically low level…
Del-Con Notes – D-Day
With the election only days away, it may be useful to re-state the modus operandi Del-Cons should bring to the…
Exit fairness in Brexit reporting
“Report and interpret honestly, striving for accuracy, fairness and disclosure of all essential facts,” the very first item in the…
Cover 25 June 2016 AU
The post Cover 25 June 2016 AU appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join the discussion and…
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