Happy New Year to all Speccie readers. Let’s start the year with a bit of forward-and-back recapping of how 2025 is shaping ...

Two tragedies at the top and bottom of Australia brought death and destruction to the country 50 years ago. As both of them ...

Given the policies of the Albanese government, it might be that they mistook George Orwell’s 1984 for an instruction manual.

Belatedly Australians are becoming aware of an active fifth column in their midsts dedicated to debasing traditional values, ...

Something is rotten in the state of Victoria. It has been for a very long time. A visit to the city once dubbed Marvellous ...

There is at least one issue on which the US media and political establishment would be unanimous. Donald Trump’s nominee as ...

It’s been an eventful year in British politics, with a snap general election and multiple leadership contests keeping ...

As an English teacher, one of my favourite poems to teach, to pupils of almost all ages, is Chinua Achebe’s ‘Vultures’. In ...

Some of football’s greatest names have been knighted for their achievements in the game. Sir Alf Ramsey received his gong for ...

Bose QuietComfort Ultra & Austrian Audio Hi-X65 Noise-canceling headphones have gotten pretty great over the past few years, ...

Every good reporter knows you never bury the lede. You never smother the key point of a story with fluff and verbiage. And ...

Narva, the northern Estonian city right on the border with Russia, has been much in the news of late. Not only is it where ...