The Spectator Australia

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ABC of failure

Pauline’s fashion parade

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

You can’t beat Cop • Performative nonsense on steroids

We’re done carrying the can • In rural Australia the climate consensus is cracking

The Compassion Racket • Woke words are money at the NDIS

Energy markets soldier on • Net zero is nonsense

Cast off our political caste • A decade of economic stagnation

No, Minister, it’s not a real job • How a civic duty became a career, a caste and a costume

The Bataclan ten years on • We’ve learned nothing

From Whitlam to war • The China problem

Gough on TV • ‘The Dismissal’ misses a key point

Judge not

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Reeves’s road to ruin

The obvious truth about BBC bias

Indecent proposal • Marriage is the real rebellion

Wed flag • Why women are saying no

The family way • Without marriage our species will become extinct

Baby steps • The path to peace in Ukraine will be tortuous

Inside stories • My life as a writer

Alcohol duty • Bring back drinking at the despatch box

BAROMETER

The real tragedy of theatre

‘The architects of Brexit ran away’ • Starmer’s Mr Fix-it is making friends with Europe

Je m’accuse • The art of owning up

Fine print

What’s Trump got to do with the price of turkey?

LETTERS

The Daily Mail’s Telegraph bid is hardly a threat to democracy

Liver, bacon and onion gravy

The aristocratic activist • Anne Chisholm celebrates the life of the only Mitford worth taking seriously

Innovation and exploitation

Old familiar places

The consolations of poetry

Dark fantasies

A special case

Countering Dracula

The Polar Bear Prime Minister

A passage to India • Philip Clark on Indian classical music’s quiet rebellion against modernity

Top of the Bill

Second in command

Where’s the song?

Let’s face the music

Sack of bilge

Gothic lives matter

Film Markets and meerkats

Confused and cumbersome

Magpies

Dolce vita

Real life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

AI puzzles

Lines of beauty

2731: Knots

All bets are off

The Battle for Britain

Could a degree make you less employable?

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

The best of Scotland

Roadman

Climate ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ • Empower Australians to initiate constitutional change, as the Swiss can