Spectator Australia · Blake Neff · Monday 20 April 2026
Labour MP Liam Byrne's new book diagnoses the 'supply side' of Western decline. The Spectator Australia has imported the analysis wholesale, as is tradition.
Another British MP's written a book explaining why populists win, which the Spectator's shipped to Australia like it's 1954 and we're still waiting for the latest thinking from Westminster. Byrne's 'supply side of decline' is the sort of phrase that gets you a column in the Times and a seat on a think-tank panel. Meanwhile the populists are out-of-doors, selling something simpler: the place isn't working. No book required.