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A test of leadership

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CONTRIBUTORS

Strange death of the Maga right • Tolerating antisemitism will destroy conservatism

King Albo Canute • The PM fears a royal commission will expose his failures

Big Mal and economics • Policy failures of the Fraser years

Maduro madness • The greatest demonstration of unconventional warfare in modern history

Trump v. Congressional Republicans • Populist leaders on the right are blocked by their own side

Sun King and the Scrub • What Queensland still understands

Being Hermann Göring

Costly Roots • The escalating price of Aboriginal heritage is measured in more than dollars

Terror by numbers • Ballots before bullets

Palisade of paper

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Farage’s voyage • Can Reform plot a route to No. 10?

Last Acts

Trump’s revolution • Europe must adjust to a new reality

Has Trump gone mad?

Mullahs cornered • What Trump’s coup in Venezuela means for Iran

Latin rights • Will the ‘Donroe Doctrine’ succeed?

The young women hypnotised by Polanski

The lost girls • Foetal femicide has arrived in Britain

In praise of the climate ‘emergency’

Call to arms • European countries are expanding their militaries. Why aren’t we?

Shame and infamy

Band of brothers • The Met’s attack on Freemasonry is unjustified

Driven to distraction • Our cars are getting bossier

No sex please, we’re Gen Z

Trump’s shift to the dark side: it’s all about extraction

Reaching for the divine • Even when David Bowie was not talking directly about religion, his lyrics were often intensely spiritual, says Helen Barrett

Parched earth

Dreaming of Australia

Be careful what you wish for

The whole Pink Floyd thing

Secrets and lies

Inventive creations

Mr Nice Guy Thomas W. Hodgkinson

Knowledge Revises

Catch as catch can

For better, for worse

The man and the myth

Sound and vision • Philip Clark on the genius of Morton Feldman

The Apprentice in frocks and waistcoats

String theory

The sound and the fury

Body of evidence

Bring up the bodies

Mourning glory

Judgment of Paris

Remembrance of things past

Coffee machines

No life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

World Rapid and Blitz

Elementary

2734: Back-up

V is for victory

The Battle for Britain

Don’t blame Ben Stokes

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Great Scott’s

Reach out

Beware ‘fake’ royal commission • G-G must demand answers from recalcitrant PM