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The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

Is the ABC any less biased than the BBC? • A day in the life of Radio National

The Great Net Zero land grab • Built on farmers’ land

Net Zero AI • The next logical target for the Australian right

Dereliction of duty • How China played the weak West

Britain’s Trumpgate • The White House goes to war with the BBC

The Donald’s quarter time report • A few glitches but lots to be proud about

Give Sussan Ley a chance • She’s been leader for only six months, she’s disciplined and determined. And political knifings rarely end well

Why Angus Taylor terrifies the Bedwetters • The factions, the lobbyists and the renewables industry

A Chesterton for our time

Science fiction

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The fight for the countryside

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Toxic waste • It’s time to scrap the Budget

Wrabness

Dirty work • Labour is intent on destroying the jobs market

Britain is becoming ungovernable

Net cost • Green energy policies are a threat to our national security

A comedy of errors

Star power • Fusion energy could be closer than we think

Trump’s Epstein gamble

Package holiday • My teenage brush with todger TV

Was the BBC’s Trump edit really wrong?

Moment of tooth • Does your mouth really need a luxury spa treatment?

Dumm und dümmer • The slow death of Germany’s education system

Zelensky’s reckoning • Ukraine is on the verge of political collapse

Say hello to your AI granny

LETTERS

City leak of the week: Osborne to chair HSBC?

Reading the wind • Much of history has been dictated by wind direction – and man’s ability to understand it, says Philip Hensher

Now and forever

Splitting hairs

A metaphysical detective story

The joy of sharing

The new Borgias

Fame comes at a price

Ball of fire • Rupert Christiansen talks to the Royal Ballet principal Matthew Ball about the shortcomings of his training, the future of the art form and being a foodie

Best in show

Bass instinct

Top of the mourning

Soft spot

Tomorrow’s world

All that jazz

Child’s play

A pilgrim’s progress • Muriel Zagha steps into her favourite film, Powell and Pressburger’s I Know Where I’m Going!

Pit full of snakes

No life

Real life

The turf

Bridge

Aussie life

Language

Fide World Cup

Here and there

2730: Herrlines

Judges need fewer powers, not more

MICHAEL HEATH

Bring on Bazball

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Everything and everything

Short money

Exclusive: How Australia escaped US-style government shutdowns • The man who saved Australia