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BROWN STUDY

Bungling bureaucrats • The nation pays a high price

Thirty years boiling the frog • The technocrats lied to the bush. Now we are paying the price

Enlightenment is not a dirty word • Intellectuals ignore the fertile ground they spring from

Nigel and Pauline • And a jump to the right

Treasurer, you’re no Keating • Thoughts on the 40th anniversary of our ‘banana republic’

The coming Farage revolution • Labour’s election disaster makes clear Britain’s direction of travel

His word is his junk bond • Menzies’ message to Taylor

Desperate retreat

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Red alert • Who will decide Labour’s fate?

B Roads

BAROMETER

The unstoppable rise of stupidity

Power trip • Will Trump and Xi give each other what they want?

Ship shape

Golf war • How the Saudis wriggled through the Iran conflict

Things can always get worse

‘Stop the boats,’ says the Fairy Queen

The glorious counter-culture of Two Fat Ladies

A complicated legacy • It’s time to uncancel Enoch Powell

Petal power • The British flower-growers fighting back against scent-free imports

Private equity’s half-century: good or bad for the world?

Wicked old Winston • The idea of Churchill as a national hero would have been inconceivable at the beginning of the second world war, says Nicholas Shakespeare

A moral maze

The lady vanishes

Shaggy dog stories

The power of spectacle

Mourning sickness

Lying for the greater good

Sins of the father

Going for gold

Joyride in a paintbox • Hermione Eyre on how Winston Churchill painted himself out of the darkness

Dual control • Peter Shaffer should be up there with the greats. Alexander Cohen makes the case

Troubled waters

Slipstream of sound

Twin peaks

Trocks of ages

Theatre Life of Brian

Food for thought

Television Broken homes

Saints alive!

A masterpiece of economy

Fezzes

Best life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Not a moment too soon

Shrink away

2752: Double trouble

First they came for Mandelson...

MICHAEL HEATH

Arsenal turn every corner into a scrum

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Solidarity on a plate

Wait list

Labor’s shame • Tolerating antisemitism to win elections