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BROWN STUDY

Bad laws outlive their victims • The tobacco excise is today’s window tax

Reporting on self-serving twaddle • From a victim of crime

Time to abandon Snowy 2.0 • Rage against the machine (Florence)

Taylor & Canavan must stop the preference leak to Labor • Or lose again

Dire strait • The PM’s grasp of reality is like the Gulf of Hormuz – it doesn’t exist

Unite the right? In Australia we did that • So let’s not panic in the face of populism

If I’m far right, so was JFK • Populism simply means popular

Germany’s political earthquake • The right wins big – and could also soon in France

Early call

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Snap judgment • What are the chances of Burnham calling an early election?

Autumn Arrives

The next Obama? • The rapid advance of a smooth-talking radical Democrat

I like a good hypocrite

Rich pickings • Billionaires are deserting the UK – where are they going?

Grief encounter • The resurgence of professional mourners

Stuck in the past with Ed

BAROMETER

War beneath the waves • A battle for the seabed is fast approaching

Boob job • I’ll do anything to keep Zack Polanski out of Kentish Town

Just stop asylum

All bets are off • Can the gambling industry survive Labour’s prohibitionists?

LETTERS

Happy retirement to wise old Warren Buffett

Vaulting ambition • Marcus Nevitt compares the careers of Thomas Cromwell, Lord Privy Seal, and Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector

An unpredictable world

Up in arms

The cartographer’s art

Murder by mistake

In search of the Arctic Atlantis

A game without boundaries

High and mighty

An unpromising land

A taste for mythmaking

‘I think the best revenge is indifference’ • Stuart Jeffries talks to Salman Rushdie about life lived in the shadow of a failed attempt on his life, vengeful impulses and cancel culture

Bieito Bingo

Ideal Holmes

Brush with greatness • Bryan Appleyard talks to the artist Gerard Stamp, whose paintings are some of the most beautiful of our time

Sister act

Conscious dethroupling

Speech impediment

An elegance that is hair-raising

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Fast life

Aussie life

Language

Clutch Chess

The great renaming

2771: Steps

My defence of King and country

The Battle for Britain

How the triple lock became political kryptonite

Tax like an Athenian

Duck and dive

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Move over, Sydney Sweeney

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