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Return of the King

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BROWN STUDY

You will live in a dog box and be happy! • Labor and the joys of urban densification

Teal deal is dead • Populism with lattes and skirts

Time to fix our universities • The rot has gone on for far too long

Australia - the failing state • We are being torn down one regulation after another

Trump’s honest bribe • At least the President names his price. Australian politicians hide theirs in the debt

Albo’s left hook • Shoebridge’s victory means Labor – like the Coalition – must defend its left and right flanks

Shaggy God story • Noah’s Ark has been found. Or has it?

How the far left plans to take over AI • Otherwise, it will be used to free us from them

The return of Old Labour

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

‘I get better every day’ • Can Kemi Badenoch revive the Tory party?

Here today

Last ditch attempt • The hunt for Britain’s wokest bar

The game we’re not allowed to win

Intelligence test • Can the CIA and MI6 remain close partners?

A tale of two Cities • The sad moral decline of the club I once loved

WARTIME NOTEBOOK

BAROMETER

The death of the author • What if AI is actually good at writing novels?

Prep ahead • I’m stockpiling wine, olives and capers

I bid fond farewell to Great Lives

It’s all too much

LETTERS

Healey should slash fuel taxes to avert a winter diesel crisis

Cannoli

The father of Europe • David Crane explores the complex character of the Emperor Charlemagne – reformer, educator and savage warlord

Portrait of the artist in his own words

Monet’s Broom

The futility of terrorism

Doing unto others

So ancient, so new

For better, for worse

Hopes and regrets

Hic Odo episcopus

Bare essentials • Daisy Dunn tells the story of the all-powerful but naughty goddess Aphrodite, the subject of a new Ashmolean show

Martial art

With Bells on

‘The art is more clever than the artist’ • Richard Bratby talks to Evgeny Titov about the stupidity of German directors and why Wagner was wrong about Parsifal

A star is reborn

Sting in the tale

Parting shots

Dudamel’s Schumann

From another world

Pickled onions

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Aussie life

Language

Samarkand Olympiad

Bad romance

2772: Museum piece

Happiness is a warm rifle

The Battle for Britain

Pep and his players should be celebrated, not dissed

Family first

Orange revolution

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