4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (640+ words) Just months out from the Victorian state election, Labor Premier Ben Carroll has sensationally moved to shut down unions which refuse to fund Labor political campaigning. In a bill introduced to the State Parliament this week, the government intends to…...

6+ hour, 34+ min ago   (721+ words) Before the pandemic, Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement turned identity politics from a niche American slogan into a governing cultural logic. What began as a claim to have ‘woken’ to inequality and the inadequacies of liberal democracy quickly…...

7+ hour, 37+ min ago   (1759+ words) Pauline Hanson is improving her position and making it less likely that this manifestation of One Nation will splutter out. At the same time, it is almost impossible for One Nation to translate its superior first preference vote over the…...

1+ day, 41+ min ago   (278+ words) First it was Nigel versus the establishment. Now it’s Nigel versus the police (although perhaps they’re part of the same establishment lambasted by Farage throughout the Clacton by-election – indeed, throughout his political career). Did Essex police warn Farage not to…...

20+ hour, 51+ min ago   (634+ words) It’s eight months since the under-16 social media ban began, and a single fact is staring the government in the face: The ban hasn’t made any difference to the 80 per cent of children still using it. By the government’s own…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (565+ words) The Spectator Australia Clacton has strengthened Nigel Farage There are two words you will hear endlessly today: ‘hollow victory’. Nigel Farage is back as MP for Clacton, but by doing battle with a bin, he has achieved nothing but embarrassed…...

23+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1030+ words) Thank god, that’s over! The risky (and some may argue, unnecessary) spectacle of Reform Leader Nigel Farage competing against a satirist with a bin for a head is not what British politics needs right now. And yet that’s what everyone…...

2+ day, 4+ min ago   (39+ words) ‘It’s said you reap what you sow. Not with this weather you don’t.’ The Spectator Australia ‘It’s said you reap what you sow. Not with this weather you don’t.’ Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment below....

1+ day, 17+ min ago   (449+ words) The two lessons from Farage’s Clacton win The Spectator Australia The two lessons from Farage’s Clacton win The result in Clacton is more evidence for my thesis that voters are so entrenched in their attitudes towards Nigel Farage that his…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (433+ words) Cooking has held little – actually, no – appeal during the steamy days and tropical nights of the past five heatwaves. Fortunately, salvation has been close at hand thanks to disposable barbecues. What’s more, these single-use foil trays with their pre-treated charcoal…...