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Do a Farage

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CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

The blame game • Is it us, the voters?

Another budget lock-up • Nothing worth leaking - they’ve already leaked it

Hold your horses! • I bet this is peak One Nation in the bush

Hating men • The left have taught women to loathe masculinity

AUSTRALIAN NOTES

Eurovision’s sadly accurate microcosm • Move over Ursula

Enid Blyted • The Famous Five battle Canberra’s small-minded censors

Grifters’ war on thrift • Albonomics is driven by the politics of envy

The virus of anti-Semitism

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Starmergeddon • Labour is hurtling further left

Four Seasons

Horror storeys • Get ready for the City’s ugliest new building

The secret of our footballing success? Greed

Death trap • Russians no longer believe Putin’s war propaganda

Relieving taxation

Fan fiction • Why are groupies so weird?

We don’t need another ‘conversation’

BAROMETER

Unwellness • Cancer is rocketing among younger people

FARMING NOTEBOOK

Let’s ditch the idea of the ‘black vote’

Mothers’ ruin • Maternity care is in a state of crisis

The Signal Box Revisited

LETTERS

Don’t blame Trump for food price hikes and cancelled flights

The trials of Lady Chatterley • D.H. Lawrence would have been mortified by the tacky merchandise spawned by his last novel, says Frances Wilson

All aboard the QE2

Angel or demon?

A cup of wisdom

Suicidal thoughts

The last line of defence

The changing face of warfare

Costume dramas

Their satanic majesties

A whole new ball game

Fallow Deer

Flower shows • Melanie McDonagh on three new plant-based treats

She wore it well

Make mine a triple

Turning Japanese

Put a spell on you

The art of noise

Same old, same old

Hare brained

The performance of her career

Fridge magnets

No life

Real life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

Roman conquest

Laughter lines

2751: Transmission

The left needn’t worry about the Reform apocalypse

MICHAEL HEATH

The ‘airport effect’ that’s ruining modern life

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

My antidote to picky bits

Pivot

The King of Australia (and Great Britain) wows the Americans • A right royal triumph