In-depth analysis of the day’s news, plus stories and gossip from Australian politics.
Women of substance
Three women, three writers, three very different life experiences. On Monday afternoon the artist Fiona Graham-Mackay introduced us to Imtiaz…
Breadline
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High life
Marion, Baroness Lambert, was hit and killed by a London bus last month while shopping in Oxford Street, a cruel…
Stuffing
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Low life
Michel is one of those Frenchmen one encounters now and again whose shining saintliness is beyond rational understanding. This great…
Angel
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Real life
‘This EU passport is an outrage. I want a British one!’ Not my words, Cydney’s. The spaniel is coming round…
Long life
It was 41 years ago that The Spectator first urged its readers to vote Brexit in a referendum, but the…
Condemning – – – – –
Littering our beautiful countryside is both unsightly and potentially prejudicial to the environment. So we run expensive campaigns to condemn…
Conservative notes
Yet another reason to keep the Crown: as part of her 90th birthday honors list, the Queen knighted Roger Scruton.…
Bridge
Just take the money! That’s the philosophy of many rubber bridge players when it comes to bidding — or rather…
Green with envy
I’ve been dudded. This is what happens when you elect, then re-elect, a Greens MP. When your electorate goes from…
Wowsers in the West
“WA: The State of Excitement” the slogan on the number plates used to read. So risqué. But that was a…
Former Australian PM John Howard backs Brexit
Speaking at a private Liberal Party fundraiser in Sydney on Wednesday night, Australia’s second longest serving Prime Minister, John Howard,…
Diary
When an old friend X came to dinner in London, I sampled what it must have been like during the…
Naked lunches and hidden bigotry
Have you got your names down yet for the Bunyadi? I’d hurry, if I were you. There’s currently a waiting…
The six best reasons to vote Leave
For me, as for so many people, it’s a heart versus head issue. I’m emotionally drawn to Europe. I speak…
Hillary’s other half
Listen http://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/268140526-the-spectator-podcast-brexit-strategy-what-would-the.mp3 Women of the world unite! Back Hillary Clinton! Otherwise, prepare to be damned to that special place in…
So much for education, education, education
‘Your old man’s barking!’ I remember hissing indignantly at my then best friend Toby Young way back in the 1980s…
Win some — lose too many
In this centenary year of the Somme, it is refreshing to read a book about the Great War that is…
Who put the Moral Authority into the AMA?
In a post-religious world of hollowed out identities, the notion of moral authority is more contested than ever. The former…
Super/Robbery etc
So now it’s NIMSA – the Not In My Superannuation Account. The same commentators and dissident conservatives who have been…
Beach
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Barometer
Boxing brains Muhammad Ali died aged 74, after more than 30 years with Parkinson’s Disease. How many boxers suffer brain…
Editor’s picks
Magazine
Net zero bandwagon’s wheels are wobbling
As Bowen heads off to another pointless Cop gabfest
Trigger warning: common sense outbreak at UN!
United Nations calls out trans threat to women’s sports
