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Hastie & Pickering

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

The Plibersek paradox • Tell us what you think, Tanya... or better still don’t

How the party elected to tackle debt fuelled it instead • Don’t just blame Labor

Business/Robbery, etc • The golden road to $US ruin

If 9/11 happened today • How would the West respond?

Save Nepal - ban continental drift • Climate change wasn’t the culprit

Climate exposé ignored • Only One Nation opposes trillion-dollar ‘scam’

Legacy media don’t get it • Nor do our politicians

Pauline’s paper premiers • Already the cracks are appearing

Labor’s secret alborithm • Can AI help Albo find the True Believers?

An ugly trade-off

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Just start oil • Labour must go further and faster in the North Sea

Andelys

Taste test • Beware of dinner-party guests bearing gifts

Would Sadiq Khan back a rave in a mosque?

The settlements question • What counts is international law, not emotive vocabulary

BAROMETER

Closed book • The precipitous decline of biblical literacy

Long live death’s dark humour

Clip art • How social media ‘clippers’ are shaping politics

AUTHOR’S NOTEBOOK

Don’t sympathise with Lindsay Clancy

Kicking down • The trouble with the government’s ‘equality of outcome’ measures

days

Swede dreams • Will Britain learn from Sweden’s immigration crackdown?

LETTERS

Where are all the apprentices, Chancellor?

Forever in the pink • Most lives contain great swathes of boredom, but not Barbara Cartland’s, writes Frances Wilson. Every page of this biography is a cliffhanger

Poetry and scattered gunfire

A succession of selves

Top guns

Scents and sensibility

The passive voice

For better, for worse

A life lived to the hilt

Embroidering the truth • Alex Burghart hails the miraculous precision of the Bayeux Tapestry

Artists of the Caribbean

Suitably epic

Good? Definitely maybe

Safe journey

Splendour in the bluegrass

Rant and dreck

A man of great suavity

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Fast life

Aussie life

Language

Will chess be ‘solved’?

Hard times

2769: Order

The Jason Arday review already knows who to blame

The Battle for Britain

How to train a driverless car

Here’s hoping

Turkish delight

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The hunt for Reform corruption

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