Category Archives: Spectator

Roger Kimball (Photo: Getty) Roger Kimball 2 July 2024 World 5:21 PM Yesterday, reviewing last week’s Supreme Court decisions, I noted that the court would probably issue its final opinion of the season, on the question of presidential immunity. So it turned out to be. Yesterday, ‘Trump v. United States’ dropped. For the first time, the Court pondered the question, ‘Does aContinue reading “What the Supreme Court immunity ruling means for Donald Trump”

The scandal-mired Pope is determined to destroy the Latin Mass Rocco Loiacono Features Australia Getty Images Rocco Loiacono 29 June 2024 9:00 AM In February last year, this esteemed magazine published a column by your correspondent on the crackdown on the Traditional Latin Mass by Pope Francis, warning that the plan was to eliminate itContinue reading “Saint Francis in reverse”

So why not charge him with fraud, rather than intent to defraud? Features Australia Peter O’Brien Getty Images Peter O’Brien 8 June 2024 9:00 AM Politicians routinely resort to name calling. It is unseemly. Sometimes they resort to personal attacks. All sides do it. When this happens the victim and his side loudly disparage theContinue reading “Trump guilty of trumped-up charges”

Alexandra Marshall Flat White Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 20 May 2024 12:07 AM Mass migration is the largest and most controversial political topic in the Western world. Come the beginning of June, mass migration and open border policies are set to tip the balance of power in the European Union elections. More than half aContinue reading “We’re not multicultural. We have one culture. The Australian culture”

It is absurd to me that Rinehart, as the portrait’s subject, seems without agency Alexander Voltz Flat White Getty Images Alexander Voltz 20 May 2024 2:00 AM It’s certainly been a week for portraiture. Jonathan Yeo’s study of His Majesty has provoked many a reaction. The painting was described by this magazine’s Alexander Larman asContinue reading “Painting Gina: National Gallery hypocrisy over cruel Rinehart portrait”

David Flint The Spectator Australia 18 May 2024 I was asked recently to introduce Tony Abbott at a function. Along with national leaders of the standing of John Howard and Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, or Donald Trump, Tony would not have shamed the nation by slapping a foreign dictator with a wet lettuce for hisContinue reading “A wet lettuce versus a real prime minister, Tony Abbott – not a bad bloke, After all.”

And other such rubbish Judith Sloan Features Australia Getty Images Judith Sloan 11 May 2024 9:00 AM Does anyone remember the Multifunction Polis? It was doing the rounds in the late 1980s, sponsored by Labor industry minister, John Button. It was going to be the next big thing, although no one could actually explain whatContinue reading “Return of the MFP”

Digital ID: privacy and liberty are brothers Alexandra Marshall Alexandra Marshall 6 May 2024 4:50 AM This is a variation on the speech I gave over the weekend in Sydney at the One Nation rally against Digital ID. The rally was led by Craig Kelly, who gave a rousing defence of freedom and democracy. He was joinedContinue reading “Flat White”

Salvation lies with Trump David Flint Features Australia Getty Images David Flint 27 April 2024 9:00 AM Most Australian politicians, with notable exceptions, treat as infallible the discredited theory of anthropogenic global boiling. Yet few, if any, significantly curb their enormous CO2 footprints. A good number probably doubt the theory. The situation in the mainstreamContinue reading “Global boiling emperor has no clothes”

Terrence O’Brien Flat White Getty Images Terrence O’Brien 3 April 2024 1:00 AM On March 18, 2024, Dick Smith argued that there is a necessary role for nuclear in Australia’s energy mix (for which he has been a longstanding champion). Media reports suggest the ABC has made a humiliating back down in apologising to Dick Smith forContinue reading “ABC failed fact check on Dick Smith: ‘Can a country run entirely on renewable energy?’”

Kevin Donnelly Flat White Getty Images Kevin Donnelly 3 April 2024 1:43 AM In his recent book, The Anxious Generation, the American psychologist Jonathan Haidt warns about the debilitating and destructive impact of mobile phones and the virtual world on children and adolescents. As I warned in 2014, the digital world, while incredibly tempting and widely endorsed,Continue reading “Temptations of a digital world”

Jason Strecker Getty Images Jason Strecker 4 April 2024 3:00 AM In one of the most significant rulings in generations, the ABC reported in February that, ‘Justice Martin found the Police Commissioner failed to comply with this section of the Act [Human Rights] … based on this, declared that the QPS directions were unlawful.’ EssentiallyContinue reading “When government wedges itself between the church and its people”

John Andriano Flat Whitr Getty Images John Andriano 15 April 2024 8:54 PM When describing democracy, former American President Abraham Lincoln in his famous Gettysburg Address in 1863, said it was a ‘government of the people, by the people and for the people’. In Australia, as in many other Western countries, government has been overrunContinue reading “A government of the bureaucrats, by the bureaucrats, and for the bureaucrats”

Michael de Percy Flat White Getty Images Michael de Percy 16 April 2024 8:58 PM The bold display of Iranian military drones over the holy city of Jerusalem symbolises the weakness of the Albanese government. Following Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s weak stance on terrorism, she is complicit in the diplomatic climate that emboldened a direct attackContinue reading “The Albanese government is our biggest national security threat”

Stop the crazy talk Judith Sloan Features Australia Getty Images Judith Sloan 13 April 2024 9:00 AM The best advice when you are in a hole is to stop digging. But this obvious recommendation clearly hasn’t sunk in for Albo as he continues his crazy, headlong push for the country to become a renewable energyContinue reading “Made in Australia myth”

Australia’s rich cultural history is being deliberately destroyed Bella d’Abrera Getty Image Features Australia Bella d’Abrera 13 April 2024 9:00 AM It is a rare thing in today’s woke world not to be disappointed by our cultural institutions. Thus, on a recent trip to the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ Sydney Modern Project, IContinue reading “Vandalism of the decolonisers”

Flat White Getty Images Flat White 9 April 2024 12:17 PM Since being offered a largely pointless and doomed-to-fail role as UN special envoy to Myanmar, the former Liberal Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop, has returned to the headlines. Today’s special is a bizarre story in The Guardian titled, Tony Abbott didn’t want women in his senior ministry, formerContinue reading “Julie Bishop highlights ‘female privilege’ in politics (by accident)”

Posted byNelleOctober 8, 2022 Posted inGreat Successful and Loved Politicians- a rare bird “I guess when your ideology died thirty years ago living in the past is a bit of a hard habit to break.” By Rio DiazSeptember 18, 2022 As previously reported on Caldron Pool, Socialist Alternative (Australia’s largest communist group) is planning onContinue reading “Why Do Communists Hate Tony Abbott So Much?”

Australia is lurching towards full-blown socialism Maurice Newman [Getty Images] Maurice Newman 6 April 2024 9:00 AM In 1956, philosopher Ayn Rand wrote, ‘We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which isContinue reading “40,000 lives lost for what?”