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BROWN STUDY

The wrong clubs • What’s so wrong about a ‘warrior culture’?

Business/Robbery, etc • China’s coal-backed energy policy lesson for Australia

Angus takes a stand • As B2 hatches his cunning plan

Command and control Australia • Second-rate politicians have exhausted our luck

Hungary’s messy new direction • New PM Péter Magyar is conservative on some key issues but a big disappointment on Israel

Living with a lie • Where were the Aussies when the US needed them?

Body of evidence • Why do governments ignore these monstrous crimes?

Decapitating Poppies • The left has a long history of demonising those who defend our freedom

Nunc dimittis

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Keir karma • Starmer has become everything he once opposed

Stroke

BAROMETER

We are sleepwalking into disaster

Independents’ day • How Gaza became one of the biggest issues of the local elections

AUTHOR’S NOTEBOOK

Grey hair is a crown of splendour

Trans anarchists • The new age of transgender rage

When did Britain become so pathetic?

Computer says die • The growing danger of AI requires global action

Godlike rulers

Lady luck • Young women should not be so bloody miserable

LETTERS

Why must London suffer Tube unions at war with each other?

BOOKS & ARTS

A troubled man • Michael Moorcock recalls his friendship with J.G. Ballard over many decades

Catching life on the wing

Manhattan survivors

Body and soul

Messing about in boats

Telling tales

The height of Beatlemania

Kafka’s afterlife

Siblings in the shadows

Magic lantern show

Spanish inquisition • Much Christian art can leave us cold – not Zurbaran

Modern man

AIpocalypse when?

Minos

Blue Wales

Flower power

Name dropping

The Price is right

Topsy-turvy

Scrupulous fidelity

Liquorice

Dolce vita

Real life

Aussie life

Language

Sindarov wins

Critics amass

2749: Orbital by Doc

The American dream is dying. Good

The Battle for Britain

Save me from double speak

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Dire straits

Passion

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