by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
Ka-shing in Sir: Ian Williams highlights (‘Chasing the dragon’, 3 May) the degree to which the Chinese state has acquired interests in the UK. Yet he overlooks a few tentacles of the Asian octopus that have curled around my home region of eastern England. Swathes of high-quality arable land are
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
Q. I have a problem with a much older friend who is slightly insecure and super-sensitive to criticism and I don’t know how to tell her an uncomfortable truth about her guest lavatory. The lavatory shaft has a coating of thick brown limescale, inches deep. She is not short-sighted so
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
With the second term of the Albanese government, Australia seems destined to become the Argentina of the South Seas. As our living standards fall even further, Beijing and Moscow are openly scoffing at the way the Albanese government has ensured that we are unable to defend ourselves. To those who
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
With racing there is always a little history involved. One of the few top races John Gosden has never won as a trainer is the one-mile 2,000 Guineas, and many of us hoped that after a scintillating performance in the Craven Stakes his Field of Gold was going to fill
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
From a western perspective, memorising all 114 chapters of the Quran might seem an unusual qualification for a national leader. Yet this is a defining feature of the résumé of General Syed Asim Munir, Pakistan’s chief of army staff since November 2022. To become a Hafiz – one who knows