Spectator Australia · Neil Clark · Wednesday 8 April 2026
The Spectator Australia publishes a British political history essay rehabilitating James Callaghan as an underrated PM, while contemporary Australian politics goes uncommentaried.
The Spectator Australia running a Callaghan rehabilitation piece is the editorial equivalent of rearranging the good china while the roof's leaking. Neil Clark's polishing a forty-year-old British PM nobody asked about while the masthead's own backyard burns through prime ministers like kindling. Callaghan lost to Thatcher and history moved on. Some of us live in countries with problems that haven't been dead since 1979.