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The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

Encouraging assassinations • The left must answer for modern political violence

Taylor tinkers with tough talk on immigration • But is he saying anything that hasn’t been tried and failed in the UK?

If it’s bad here, it’s worse in the mother country • Once you start investigating your own soldiers, it never ends

World sags under record debt • Something will snap as rates rise

Zero debt • Jimbo fiddles the 20-year anniversary

Australia is trying to drink its way to fiscal sobriety • Labor has destroyed our will to produce

How feminism demoralises young women • The ideological subversion of an entire generation of Western girls

Once a jolly jihadist • The war crimes Australia won’t prosecute

Councils of despair

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Nation of shoplifters • Shameless rule-breaking is taking over Britain

Unearthing

Dog days • The unstoppable social rise of the whippet

The ‘special relationship’ was always a delusion

After Starmer • Revealed: the secret plans for Labour’s future

BAROMETER

LETTER FROM AMERICA

Under fire at the White House dinner

Test of faith • My clash with the Vatican’s cricket team

ANCIENT AND MODERN

Greenshirts on the march • Zack Polanski’s party are the real racists

With a shudder, I’m voting Labour in the local elections

The Lords’ Rotterdämmerung

LETTERS

Searching for hope as Labour harms everything it touches

A breeding ground for evil • Caroline Moorehead on the deep divisions in interwar Germany which allowed Nazism to flourish

Where the wild things are

Magic tricks

Making an impression

The boy next door

The uncertainty principle

Mystic energy

The other French revolution

The Syrian tragedy

High table talk

A tonic to the nation? • On its 75th anniversary, Calvin Po considers the mixed legacy of the Festival of Britain

Wayne’s world

Full of Eastern promise

Franz Xaver Richter: Four Symphonies

Mad men

Godmother of grunge

The magic ears of Hyperion

Man behaving badly

Withering heights

Skill of the characterisation

Still life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Women’s Candidates

Ouch

2750: Lincoln Memorial

It’s not Reform-voting parents who are ruining families

MICHAEL HEATH

Sawe has demolished the impossible

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Dream palace

Picky bits

Ben Roberts-Smith’s jurisprudential imbroglio • Moral and common-sense solutions