by Spectator Australia | Jun 23, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/no-tony-abbott-is-not-a-populist/There is an article in The Saturday Paper floating the idea that Tony Abbott is a Populist (according to an unnamed Liberal source). To me, this presents a fundamental misunderstanding of the...
by Spectator Australia | Jun 23, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/who-wants-to-govern-britain/As the country prepares for its seventh prime minister in a decade, some are asking: is Britain ungovernable? I’d like to pose a parallel but meaningfully different question: is there a government that...
by Spectator Australia | Jun 23, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/what-i-saw-at-the-montreal-shooting/We were running late to check out of our hotel because my two young girls had demanded to use the pool one last time. I indulged them. The squeals of laughter were worth it. Afterward, we hustled...
by Spectator Australia | Jun 23, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/the-global-climate-confidence-game-2/‘He that can make the philosopher’s stone, will certainly be rich.’ – Ben Jonson, The Alchemist Victor Lustig understood a profound truth about human nature. When he famously ‘sold’ the Eiffel...
by Spectator Australia | Jun 23, 2026 | Independent Commentary, Spectator Australia
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/06/britain-has-become-the-weak-man-of-europe-on-border-control/Britain and France have rewritten the ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal nearly a year after it came into effect. The treaty, described as ‘groundbreaking’ by both countries...