I know many Speccie readers keep abreast of what’s going on in the mother country. I know I do, in part because I studied ...

Gareth Evans coined the term ‘relevance deprivation syndrome’ after going into opposition in 1996. He still seems to suffer ...

I was thinking about blame a while back when reading one of my fellow Speccie writers talk about the sorry economic state of ...

Over the last few weeks, Pope Leo XIV resumed the tradition of popes spending some part of the summer at the papal residence ...

Despite his immense contribution to Australian public life as a secretary of the Treasury, public policy expert, and briefly ...

Australia is undergoing a quiet but radical economic transformation. Not led by the invisible hand of the market, but by the ...

Byju’s is an Indian educational-technology company that during the pandemic cornered online education in the country. In 2021 ...

I have been reading Alex Ryvchin’s The Seven Deadly Myths. This is a confronting and compelling explanation of the phenomenon ...

Despite the first six months of Donald Trump’s current term being among the most active ever, most of the mainstream media ...

The US-EU trade deal has been given a lukewarm reception in Europe. Although the agreement between US president Donald Trump ...

What a farce it was in Canberra for the opening of Parliament… At least five different ‘Welcome to Country’ performances, ...

It’s hard to think of an industry, outside of modern universities, whose blatant attempt to increase and safeguard their own ...