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Four funerals and a wedding

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

Being paid to bludge • The Work From Home rort

National conservatism isn’t conservative • ...and it’s certainly not Australian

The Juukan myth • ‘Aboriginal heritage’ is now a major risk

AUSTRALIAN NOTES

The outgoing tide of freedom • Whither the twelve angry men?

The rooster, the sun & Donald J. Trump • How American conservatism lost its mind

Peak China • No longer the economic juggernaut it once was

It’s our party and we’ll splurge if we want to • Bonfire of the Green vanities

Surge of The Purge • Lefties projecting their very worst traits

Sound the retreat

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Shirkers’ rights • Labour’s benefits bonanza doesn’t add up

Canned Laughter

Crowning glory • A new series highlights why British diplomacy needs the royals

Hands off my prostate

Mass appeal

Identity politics • An apology to Hope Not Hate and Harry Shukman

Greek odyssey • How I bonded with Tom Stoppard over the classics

BAROMETER

Where was my invitation to Your Party?

Climate climbdown • The great green scare is finally fading

Straight to video • The ‘Crewkerne Man’ is reviving political satire

The mind-body conundrum

Record keeping • I’m bringing back the album

Why the Budget let banks off the hook

Ambition, guilt and desire • Adam Begley follows John Updike from hay-haired boy to elderly duffer in a collection of remarkable letters

Clever Hans

Party Time

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles

A romp through romance

Red, smoked, pickled and cured

In Flanders fields

A dishonourable business

Parodies and potboilers

Getting down with the Blitz Kids

Payback time

What is the greatest artwork of the century so far?

Postcards from Italy

Bruckner on Ozempic

Duel in the crown

Remembering Tom Stoppard

Miller vs Van Hove

The sheer scope of his work

Party tricks

Best life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Retreating knights

Frankenpoem

2732: Play it tough

The jury’s out

The Battle for Britain

Ben stokes the flames

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

A right royal travesty

Fudge

An Australian disaster • A Roman solution