22+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1052+ words) Tim Burton’s 1996 black comedy Mars Attacks! used Slim Whitman’s song ‘Indian Love Call’ to blow out the brains of the Martian enemy. For those who enjoy Tim Burton’s movies, it will be no ‘surpreeeez!’ that Pauline Hanson is on the…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (161+ words) “I don’t agree with the Chief Rabbi.” — BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) September 9, 2026 Red Ed Miliband graced the airwaves this morning to inform the Chief Rabbi that he is wrong about the impact of UK sanctions on Israeli settlements. Sir Ephraim Mirvis…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (196+ words) A balaclava on a British street is a small declaration: I do not want you to know who I am. Last weekend, that declaration was made in Dover and Portsmouth, where hundreds of men, many dressed head-to-toe in black, turned…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (561+ words) Labour knows it can’t call immigration protesters racist The Spectator Australia Labour knows it can’t call immigration protesters racist A few years ago, it would have been unthinkable for a Labour frontbencher to use a statement about the kind of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (764+ words) It sounds absurd that I should even ask. Yet the Albanese government’s latest move is so broad, so unnecessary and so open to abuse that the question is no longer far-fetched. The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (854+ words) The Spectator Australia This silly and drivelling piece of tosh Every so often something comes along that is so bad it fills the soul with wonder and dismay. It seems like a denial of nature that the upshot should be…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (348+ words) We are starting to see a pattern in the announcements that Andy Burnham has made over his first few weeks as Prime Minister. He makes a promise that’s full of belief and righteousness, and then has to follow that up…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (599+ words) Who should pay for Meghan and Harry’s security? The Spectator Australia Who should pay for Meghan and Harry’s security? It isn’t long now until the joyous day that Harry and Meghan once more make Britain their home, but several aspects…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (221+ words) Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor a woman who wrote that Muslims should study engineering and computers ‘to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (402+ words) To whom are the police accountable and how? Certainly, if you ask the public, they might well suggest that the answer is the Home Secretary. After all, the Secretary of State for the Home Department is one of our four…...