Many Speccie readers will have preconceived ideas about economists. Unexciting, narrow-minded and pedantic perhaps spring to ...

Memory can be a fickle friend. Vital details, once secure in the mind, tend to disappear down the memory hole as you advance ...

According to lore, Santa’s elves live to be hundreds of years old. In theory, Santa should have no problem communicating with ...

The Christmas season recalls the fundamental and continuing importance of one of this nation’s and, indeed, our ...

The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing, admittedly not in Sydney, but Seoul has been blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in ...

Well, merde, as the French would say, or sh-t, if you’re English. Elevating a bit of toilet humor – enshittification – to ...

Apart from being capital cities, what do the following places have in common: Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney and ...

The pages of this summer bumper edition typically carry the death-defying Aussie larrikin exploits of my brother, but what ...

Dare we hope that the world is coming out of Rod Dreher’s age of ‘endarkenment’? We may be experiencing a revolution in real ...

My wife and I have never been on an ocean cruise. I know that some people swear by the ten-day sail around the Mediterranean.

With much of the world’s attention focused on the US political scene during 2024, a book that offers some useful context is The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself (published ...

It has been just on two years now since Giorgia Meloni was swept into office as Italy’s first female prime minister. Despite the predictions of gloom and the derangement from the usual quarters ...