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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | John Carroll |Daryl McCann |Graham Pinn |Edward Cranswick
At a time in the West when honesty is vital what we get are platitudes about Islam being the religion of peace Apr 15 2025 12 mins Trump's double game with Russia and Ukraine must seem to Zelenskyy and Putin that he is stringing each along Apr 14 2025 20 mins Without meeting the increase in future demand for REE’s, we cannot keep the lights on, never mind fight a war Apr 14 2025 7 mins As the frequency and intensity of terrorist acts increase, without any tempering in sight, community...
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Graham L. Bradley |Daryl McCann |Andrew Cusack |Roger Franklin
Three years of Russia’s military failures in Ukraine have inspired quiet doubts in Beijing. So how solid is that relationship? Mar 30 20255 minsTrump continues to play a double game with Russia and Ukraine.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Roger Partridge |Daryl McCann |Phil Shannon |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Like other modern autocrats, Trump maintains the outward form of institutions while gutting their independence Mar 20 2025 8 mins Long before Hollywood fell for recently deceased thug George Floyd, it was the US Left's domestic terrorists who captured its heart Mar 20 2025 16 mins The major parties' hasty 'reform' of campaign financing exclusively benefits - Surprise! Surprise! - those same major parties Mar 19 2025 5 mins Jim Allan’s spirited response to my Quadrant Online column, Trump’s...
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Anthony Daniels |Graham Pinn |Daryl McCann |Michael Connor
I wondered why so many prisoners become Muslims.
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1 month ago | 
quadrant.org.au | Graham Pinn |Daryl McCann |Michael Cross |Peter SMith |Peter Smith
Apart from relying on bracket-creep to increase the tax haul, there is no obvious plan to drain the sea of red ink in which Australia flounders Mar 18 2025 6 mins Democrats fear that the machinery of the modern state can be used against them, just as they used it against Trump Mar 18 2025 16 mins Labour’s nip-and-tuck on the remaining peers ignores Blackstonian theory in the same way as did Oliver Cromwell’s Commons Mar 18 2025 12 mins Back in the 1950s, Tennessee Ernie Ford sang a miner’s...
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | James R. Snell |Jacob Heilbrunn |Daryl McCann |Juan P. Villasmil
Fans of South Park are familiar with the long-running gag involving the show’s portrayal of Canadians as crudely animated, detail-less animated cutouts, perpetually outraged — almost always an overreaction to something America has done.
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1 month ago | 
thespectator.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Rupert Shortt |Matthew Foldi |Daryl McCann
So much for President Donald J. Trump’s serial vows to extricate America from the Middle East’s seemingly endless wars and feuds. His bombing on Saturday of numerous targets in Yemen has further enmeshed it in them. Several weeks of bombing loom as Trump vows to crush the Iranian-backed Houthi militia and warns Tehran that it might be in for similar treatment.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Daryl McCann |Ross Anderson |Michael Evans |Robin Ashenden
“He [Donald Trump] sees American leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions.” That was the verdict of the Democratic senator Elissa Slotkin following the President’s address to Congress. Trump 2.0 does, admittedly, have the appearance of a political version of The Art of the Deal, in which the Donald is prepared to leverage a bilateral compact with every country in the world — so long as the price is right.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Ross Anderson |Daryl McCann |Michael Evans
It isn’t just a weekend of warmer weather for the President, who took off for Mar-a-Lago yesterday evening. It is possibly a weekend full of calmer news. The decision from Democatic minority leader Chuck Schumer to let the spending bill advance in the Senate allowed the six-month extension to get over the line last night, as the Senate voted 54-46 to see it through. This seemed to give markets a temporary sense of relief as well, as growing expectation that the bill would pass saw stocks rally.
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2 months ago | 
thespectator.com | Ross Anderson |Matthew Foldi |Daryl McCann |Michael Evans
LOG is the name of ungraded digital video footage. It’s flat, lifeless, and dark, but that’s fine because you can tweak, tune, and adjust in a way that was never possible with film, fiddling with exposure, contrast, saturation, and so forth. In those days, everything had to look as good as possible on the film. But, with the ability to grade in post, fix visual effects in post, and change backgrounds and designs in post, directors started getting lazy.
