by Spectator Australia | Mar 14, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/the-regime-in-iran-and-the-delusion-of-moderates/Almost three decades ago, the regime in Iran launched a new campaign. Its goal was to fabricate legitimacy and break the isolation resulting from its reign of terror during the first...
by Spectator Australia | Mar 14, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/the-kharg-option/For decades, the ‘smartest people in the room’ at the State Department and in the legacy media looked down on Donald Trump’s foreign policy as the bluster of a real estate developer. They chuckled at his 1988...
by Spectator Australia | Mar 14, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/what-did-i-miss-2/Jim Chalmers’ kinder economy has turned a corner and crashed straight into a tree. Inflation expectations are spiking to 5.2 per cent in March. The highest in near three years. As it turns out, Chalmers not only...
by Spectator Australia | Mar 14, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/chaharshanbe-suri-in-the-iranian-soul/Chaharshanbe Suri is one of the ancient Iranian festivals, celebrated on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year, beginning at sunset on Tuesday. Its main feature is lighting bonfires and...
by Spectator Australia | Mar 12, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/2743-3-4/The unclued lights (one of three words), individually or as three pairs and a trio) are of a kind, one doing double duty, and all but one are from the same source. Ignore any possible definite article and one apostrophe....