Tag Archives: The Spectator

There’s a mutinous mood in Westminster this Christmas. In quiet corridors on the parliamentary estate the question is being asked: has Boris outlived his usefulness? Ministers are laying low.

I wrote a piece about James Bond for the ‘Freelance’ column of the Times Literary Supplement. All true Bond lovers — of the novels, I mean — know that he lived in

Laikipia Plateau, KenyaOur local chief Panta wore a government-issue khaki uniform with epaulettes, beret and swagger stick. On a pleasant stroll to our farm springs, he observed how plenty of

China is a gold medallist in Olympic boycotts on The Spectator Australia | Guess which country is a gold medallist for Olympic boycotts? Surely not the

Without even having listened to the IPA’s documentary podcast Their ABC, ABC board member Joe Gersh criticised the podcast but made an interesting omission – that the ABC’s vibe is more left than right.

It’s been a rough start for freedom in Perrottet’s NSW on The Spectator Australia | One of the first acts of the New South Wales Police Force on ‘Freedom Day’ was to cancel the ‘Freedom

Gender-critical Tasmanian women are given permission to speak on The Spectator Australia | A council meeting in Hobart has received some press attention for a

This Christmas spare a thought for those not allowed to celebrate it. The Open Doors organisation estimates 309 million Christians in their list of top 50 offending nations are currently

The leftist city council of Moreland, an inner northern Melbourne suburb, is ‘shocked’, according to the Age newspaper, to discover that the municipality is named after a West Indies plantation where slavery was practised. Shocked, my eye – they are …

Boris Johnson has just suffered a large majority-busting revolt in the House of Commons over vaccine passports, with 98 Conservatives rebelling against the government. The measure passed with