The Spectator Australia

2 days ago | spectator.com.au | Sarah Vine

On the hottest day of the year, St Pancras station would not have been my first choice for lunch, but it turned out to be, quite literally, the coolest of venues. I was meeting my brother (not Jeremy, as is often assumed, but Ben), over from Spain to attend the launch of a book I’ve written, How Not to Be a Political Wife. Even Ben was struggling with the heat, and when London is hotter than Madrid, you know something’s up.

2 days ago | spectator.com.au | Judith Sloan

Let’s face it, Labor and gabfests go together like a horse and carriage. Who can forget that gabfest of all gabfests, the 2020 Summit, convened by the Ruddster in 2014? (I must confess to attending that shindig, but I quickly add that I took an early mark because there was only so much a sensible woman can tolerate.)In Albo’s first term, there was the Jobs and Skills Summit convened by then workplace relations minister, B2, aka Tony Burke.

3 days ago | spectator.com.au | Neal Pollack

President Trump didn’t start the war. But if we’re to believe the greatest social-media post of all time, he sure finished it, and quickly. Either way, he definitely branded it, and in geopolitics, as in business, branding is everything. If you break the terms of the brand, Israel and Iran have found out, the President is going to whup you, at least verbally.

5 days ago | spectator.com.au | Neal Pollack

President Trump appeared in the long hallway Saturday night, flanked by his Three Sons – J.D., Pete and Little Marco – to let us know he’d done the big violence in Iran. It was a somber moment, a war moment, though, as Trump said on Truth Social after he’d ordered the dropping of the Mother of All Bombs deep into the heart of old Persia, “NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE.

6 days ago | spectator.com.au | Ella Whelan

For the entirety of June each year, companies and institutions go rainbow for Pride. But this year, social media seems a little less awash with multicoloured flags – and fewer and fewer companies have bothered with their annual logo change. Could it be that we have all, finally, tired of this mandatory rainbow charade? Donald Trump has certainly made his feelings known.