by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
Reform’s success in last week’s local elections has been attributed to many causes. Labour’s abolition of the winter fuel payment for pensioners. The hollowing out of the Conservative party’s campaigning base. Nigel Farage’s mastery of social media. But if you want an emblem of why voters turned their back on
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
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by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
In 1988, when I was six months old, my British father and Polish mother took me to meet my family in Krakow. My parents brought an extra suitcase filled with disposable nappies because such luxuries weren’t sold on the other side of the Iron Curtain. At the time, there was
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
I doubt I’m alone among Spectator readers in feeling a certain slight but nagging discomfort when I hear those on the left in British politics tearing into the present President of the United States. Why so? one asks oneself. Have I a shred of sympathy with this monster? No. Can
by Spectator Australia | May 8, 2025 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
It is one of life’s irksome axioms that if you court attention and controversy, you may well end up with more than you planned. You might even be faced with the prospect of being taken to court. And so it has come to pass with Kneecap, an Irish punk-influenced hip-hop