Dystopian scenarios – scary, end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it films and fiction – are on the rise. Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission is about what goes…

The South Australia state parliament is in recess for a fortnight. It’s time for Premier Jay Weatherill and his bullish…

Forget all the recent talk about labels and who gets to wear the tag of ‘centrist’ or ‘liberal’ or ‘conservative’…

Last night I went to sleep on the right. I must have tossed and turned a lot because when I…

To recap: the nation’s embrace of renewables has caused widespread blackouts, businesses to close, the indigent to seek shelter in…

I’m going to bury my lead here, but it’s for the good of the story. Earlier today Australian Taxpayers Association…

Well, Malcolm Turnbull did it on Monday in London.  He took Tony Abbott’s bait and weighed into the moderate v…

I’m no Crosby-Textor, but if Malcolm Turnbull was wondering what the recipe for electoral success is, it certainly isn’t telling…

This is Labor’s gloating season. The time when the latest Newspoll tells us the Coalition’s primary vote has slipped from…

Want to have some innocent merriment at the expense of the man who put the cash into climate catastrophe, Al…

There’s something quite disconcerting about modern society’s preoccupation with rights movements and the Trudeauan, technocratic snobbery that seems to come…

We all know the school stereotype. Government schools are full of disadvantaged students and struggling for money, while overfunded wealthy…

The main news headline to come out of the G20 seems to be, in essence, that “The United States’ influence…

Dear Yassmin and Tim You know your incessant whinging about how horrible Australia is? As a migrant to fellow migrants,…

Politically correct feminism just keeps getting funnier, folks! These days, rants from its most zealous true believers are so jaw-droppingly…

There’s still a whole lot of libertarian grand-standing going on about the British general election, much of it predicated on…

“Really Lucy, it’s quite frustrating. I was hoping to get away … get away from we-know-who and his rants, I…

Aficionados of The Spectator will know that entries in the 2017 Thawley Competition have opened, with a tasty $5000 prize…

The Tony Abbott insurrection against the moderate overlords of the parliamentary Liberal party continues. ‘I am a member of the…

It was ridiculous before it began: then she began and it spiralled into something hideously currish. Julia Gillard is not…

There are so many things that we lose on our passage through life: innocence, virginity, youth, looks, patience, temper, love,…

Dear Malcolm As a conservative member of the Liberal Party, I want you to succeed. I genuinely do. The alternative…

Newly appointed Beyond Blue chair Julia Gillard is already embroiled in controversy. Discussing Donald Trump’s Twitter habits on ABC’s Lateline,…

The Sydney Morning Herald has been quick to report a half-yearly update on domestic violence. In a blizzard of statistics, there…

Last week I was detailing to my uncle the current Prince’s malaise with his occupation, my uncle replied with at…