Category: Spectator Australia

The Spectator AustraliaHow the Brexit deal demonstrates Boris Johnson’s geniusWhy Brexiteers should support this dealConfessions of a failed royal reporterThe moment the modern world went wrongWhy Christmas sends a shiver down my spineFull text: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal speechBritain has won the biggest Brexit prize of allAt last: we have

Madeleine Kearns To Trump or not to Trump? Whether ’tis nobler on the page to be a morbid cynic or a self-righteous arse? That is the question those of us working in American right-wing media have been staring in the face for four years. Looking back, the Trump years feel like one of those awful ‘would

It’s become a regular refrain to hear that Brexit talks have been extended. Now the same applies to negotiations over the Christmas Covid rule relaxation. After various scientific advisers warned the UK government against going ahead with its planned five day relaxation of the rules (which would see three household

Thanks to Israeli scientists we now have a psychological profile of a large section of our population and the body politic: A new personality construct has been defined that describes people who persistently see themselves as victims within interpersonal conflicts. The research was published in Personality and Individual Differences. Study authors

‘You’re a cuck, Tobes, an absolute cuck.’ My friend James Delingpole was furious. ‘Honestly, I thought I could depend on you of all people, but you’ve surrendered, just like every other right-wing commentator I know. I can’t begin to describe how disappointing this is. I would have expected it

The UK-EU trade negotiations have heated up again, albeit from a very cold state. Boris seems to have conceded ground on the ‘evolution clause’ to the European Union, making a path to an agreement on the level playing field issues at least plausible. The UK has accepted that divergence

Another review of the retirement income system has come — and it seems, gone — without clearly having achieved its (rather limited) mission to establish a common fact base. For example, there seems no more agreement than before about the impact of, say, increasing the super guarantee on wages.

The naked cynicism of the union movement has been laid bare in its attack on the Morrison government’s very modest industrial relations changes.  The ludicrous claim that the amendment to the BOOT test to allow covid-19 impacted business some relief from it to protect jobs

Question: How many trans activists does it take to change a lightbulb? Answer: The same number that it takes to have an article questioning trans ideology erased from a major newspaper –- one. The Melbourne Age ran an opinion piece on its website Sunday in which a mum expressed

William P. Barr is out. Joe Biden is in. And Donald Trump has a few more weeks left to bemoan his fate and lash out at his subordinates now that the Electoral College vote has taken place. Poor Trump! He wanted a no-holds-Barred assault on the election. But Barr,

Donald Trump said during the second and final presidential debate on October 22 that he was optimistic a vaccine would be ready ‘within weeks’. When moderator Kristen Welker asked if that was a ‘guarantee’, Trump replied that it was not, but that the US would have a vaccine by

Should we worry about the emergence of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19? News of the new variant – which, it seems, might transmit more easily than previous versions – was the big surprise of Matt Hancock’s statement to the Commons this afternoon. The other