The Spectator Imports Another British Culture War Nobody Here Ordered

Spectator Australia · Jimmy Nicholls · Tuesday 7 April 2026

The Spectator Imports Another British Culture War Nobody Here Ordered

The Spectator Australia runs a piece critiquing Rory Stewart's engagement with Islam, continuing the British magazine's tradition of exporting its domestic culture-war anxieties to an Australian audience with different fault lines entirely.

The Spectator's shipped another British culture-war dispatch to Australian shores like it's still sending convicts. Rory Stewart's theological credentials are being adjudicated by a magazine whose Australian edition exists primarily to give Sydney dinner parties something to leave on the coffee table. Mate, we've got our own sectarian history — we don't need to import Britain's.

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