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WEBStarving street urchins sell their sisters in the chaos of Naples, 1944. Naples is ‘certainly the most disgusting place in Europe’, judged John Ruskin. The boisterous yelling in the corridor-like streets and…. Ian Thomson. 28 Sep 2024. The Australian edition of the iconic British weekly magazine, now with its own website.
‘Real Zero’ is the new ‘Net Zero’ | The Spectator Australia
WEB14 hours ago · While calling Net Zero 2050 a ‘con to maintain fossil fuel’, one mining giant borrowed a bit of flamboyance from that UN bloke who likes to wade out into the tide for Time photo-shoots. The longer text of Fortescue’s founder and executive chair Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest’s interview reads (emphasis added): ‘Quite simply, “real zero ...
Is Labour’s first Budget coming unstuck? | The Spectator Australia
WEB17 hours ago · The softly-softly strategy seemed to work, at least for getting through the election. It left the Chancellor Rachel Reeves with huge room for flexibility in the Treasury to do what she wanted in her first Budget on 30 October, thanks to the huge majority Labour now commands and the absence of almost any tax promise in the manifesto.
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WEBIsabel Hardman. As nine-year-old Max resigns himself to death, a saviour arrives in the person of Keira, the victim of a tragic car crash, whose family opts to donate her organs. More from Books.
Putting faith in fact-checkers is the road to censorship
WEB5 days ago · The IPA analysed 187 fact-checking articles relating to the Voice to Parliament between 22 May 2022 and 14 October 2023. It found an overwhelming 170 articles, or 91 per cent of fact-checks, assessed claims made by opponents of the Voice. In this same period, Australian fact-checkers assessed just 17 claims made by proponents of the Voice.
Issue: 7 October 2023 Aus | The Spectator Australia
WEBOct 7, 2023 · Michael Arditti. Lawyers, teachers, architects and engineers all enjoy sex behind the scenes at a Houston gay bar in a novel focusing on relationships among black urban men. More from Books.
A nation divided | The Spectator Australia
WEB19 January 2024. 3:31 AM. As the nation ushers in a new year following the decisive defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament at the ballot box, there are still those who persist in rejecting the outcome of the referendum. Undeterred, they remain steadfast in their pursuit of race-based objectives covered within the failed referendum, such ...
Welcome to Spectator Australia TV
WEBFeb 28, 2021 · The Spectator Australia. 28 February 2021. 5:50 PM. We’re excited to be launching Spectator Australia TV and CounterCulture, a new weekly web show and podcast presented by Institute of Public Affairs Director of Policy Gideon Rozner, co-produced by The Spectator Australia and the IPA. Watch the very first episode and subscribe to the YouTube ...
Reflections on 15 years in the editor’s chair
WEB5 days ago · Fraser Nelson. 5 October 2024. 9:00 AM. In the late summer of 2009, Andrew Neil invited me to his villa in the Côte d’Azur but didn’t say why. I was mystified. I was then political editor of The Spectator and in eight years of working closely with Andrew, the then chairman, he’d never hinted that he saw me as an editor.
Foreign issues dominate Australian politics - The Spectator Australia
WEBWhen a party wins an election, it becomes their job to protect the government’s interests (that they now represent) – aka cover up the bad behaviour of predecessors. Like an out-of-control avalanche, governments protect each other. Again, and again. Assured mutual destruction keeps the whole system in check.