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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Phil Shannon |Andrew L. Urban |Anthony Daniels |Michael Cross
The major parties' hasty 'reform' of campaign financing exclusively benefits - Surprise! Surprise! - those same major partiesMar 19 20255 minsThe West promotes tolerance of the intolerant. Who thinks that will end well? Mar 19 20254 minsI wondered why so many prisoners become Muslims.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
How many Palestinians does it take to change a light bulb? None! They sit in the dark forever and blame the Jews for it!Those who follow Middle East affairs will know that ‘god willing’ is the wish – the mantra – constantly uttered by all Muslims, including radical Islamists. But god isn’t willing, judging by history.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
The little motor boat with the red fish sign flying on what would have been a mast had it been a yacht, approached the lower side of Positano Quay where a dozen of us had gathered in the blazing sun, hoping to get a seat. It was 11 in the morning, and there would be another boat every half an hour or so until 1pm, but we were eager.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
The left in the Anglosphere, rather feral these days, has gone Full Monty. In the UK, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that in compliance with the rogue ICC’s illegitimate, unlawful, evidence-free arrest warrant, he would arrest Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, if he visited Britain. He’s a war criminal, Starmer believes.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
The Jew with the bloodied torso was being brutalised, lashed, and abused. I was seated in row B of the stalls, near enough to the stage to see the violence up close … albeit staged, not real. But really confronting. I felt vaguely comforted that no one in the crowd of 2,000 cheered, but watched in silent remorse.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
North Korean troops sent to fight alongside Russians in its invasion of Ukraine has been met with what looks like equanimity in the Anglosphere. There have been no squeals about ‘escalation’. Kim Jong-Un is arm in arm (or should that read arms in arms) with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine’s battlefield, and we shrug? Zelensky blasted what he called his allies’ ‘zero’ response, saying that a weak reaction would encourage Russia to beef up the contingent.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
There will be a narrow window of opportunity between the Presidential inauguration on January 20, 2025 and the next Australian election due within a few months of that date, for the Coalition (as in coal-ition) to launch what would be arguably the most consequential election campaign in Australian political history.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
The problem for the Democrats is not that they’re out of touch, as everyone is saying in election postmortems. Their major problem is that they have let their loud but stupid left wing to take over and self-harm the entire Left in a big way. Trump’s triumph is the karma they deserve.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
‘Who could imagine that Kamala has any support … are Americans asleep?’ Or so read the text message from a friend in response to the latest polls showing Kamala Harris and Donald Trump pretty well equal favourites in the final days of the campaign for the US Presidency. I replied, ‘Harris voters are not voting for Harris but generically for the Democrat – and against Trump.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
spectator.com.au | Andrew L. Urban
While Anthony Albanese welcomed the King, warming to climate action the other day in Samoa, I was enjoying a BBQ dinner as a guest with new acquaintances. The conversation turned to the topic of climate change. Not my fault, I’d never bring it up in company whose views on the matter I didn’t know.
