2+ hour, 33+ min ago  (294+ words) Mind your language! There has recently been another smattering of incidents featuring accusations of inappropriate choice of words, or even just the wrong tone. I think it's worth taking a closer look at some of these for what they reveal…...

20+ hour, 13+ min ago  (607+ words) The Spectator Australia Why Starmer must stay I have little interest in what Keir Starmer will say in the Commons later today. I've only been in political journalism for four years, and I'm already onto the fall of my fourth…...

14+ hour, 34+ min ago  (514+ words) You can always tell it's going to be a good day in the Commons when the government spin operation happens before a Prime Ministerial statement. Clearly predicting a bloodbath, No. 10 tried to trot their lines out early. Starmer made himself…...

1+ hour, 49+ min ago  (11+ words) Unemployment has fallen " but not in a good way'The Spectator Australia...

58+ min ago  (257+ words) Today marks the centenary of Elizabeth II's birth. Less than four years after she died, Britain's longest-reigning monarch is still regarded with both veneration and genuine fondness by the people that she ruled over. As our longest'serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth…...

16+ hour, 13+ min ago  (275+ words) What a funny pair Lee Anderson and Zarah Sultana are: so vehemently opposed to one another's politics and yet so similar in the way they operate, right down to getting sent out of the Commons this afternoon for calling the…...

10+ hour, 10+ min ago  (144+ words) The return of multiculturalism as a live political question in Australia has been swift " and faintly familiar. What is really at issue, beneath these formulations, is multiculturalism itself " and the deeper misgivings it continues to provoke. I. Values vs Culture What…...

12+ hour, 18+ min ago  (990+ words) Lessons from a century of booms A review of Australia's economic past reveals a familiar pattern. Resource revenues have tended to flow straight into consumption " higher living standards, tax cuts, asset inflation " rather than being systematically converted into long-term assets....

14+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1163+ words) In 1963, the Knesset made a decision that, at first glance, feels almost counter-intuitive. Why would a nation choose to place its day of mourning, Yom Ha Zikaron, immediately before its day of celebration, Yom Ha Atzmaut? Why insist that grief…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (864+ words) The Spectator Australia The changing economics of war On 15 September 1916, at Flers-Courcelette, 49 Mark I tanks rolled into no-man's land. Most broke down. The ones that kept going shocked the German line and took three villages by lunchtime. Douglas Haig wired…...