The Spectator Australia

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The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

My fellow Libs, we need to pick a side • What I learnt running in the SA election

Unstoppable wind and sun • Labor’s talking points all hot air

The land we forgot to remember • Albanese does not understand the history of Australia

Blind Freddy goes fracking • Useless politicians ignore the vast resources in our own backyard

When the Law of War comes home to roost • War crimes allegations should face military justice, not a criminal court

Ben Roberts-Smith and the confused battlefield • Can we really judge what is or isn’t a war crime?

Labor is busy fuelling the fuel crisis • Albo is clearly clueless about the laws of supply and demand

Labor’s fossil fools • With Albo at the helm, we’re in dire straits

Teenage daydreams are being driven underground • Australia’s social media ban is working for everyone except the kids themselves

Madness without method

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Benefits treats • Britain has become a freeloader’s paradise

The age of chaos • No one knows what Trump will do next

Wild things • Let teenage boys discover the English countryside

Do you suffer from ‘excited delirium syndrome’?

Troubles ahead • Starmer must drop this terrible Northern Ireland bill

Hostage situations

The dubious rise of Tariq Ramadan

De Gaulle or nothing • Lessons from the General

Winter Wedding

Hungary for change • Is time up for Viktor Orban?

The conversion therapy we should really ban

Vale, Patum Peperium • Gentleman’s Relish is no more

LETTERS

Making Tax Difficult: another Whitehall farce

BOOKS & ARTS

Campaniles in Wales • Stephen Bayley delights in the colourful flamboyance of Portmeirion

The forge of Vulcan

All shook up

Lessons in healing

Office gossip

Away with melancholy

A man with a mission

Surrealist sphinx

Blue-sky thinking

A war of words

Two roads diverge

Ways of seeing • There are still art historians and critics who refuse to countenance the fact that great artists used optical aids, says Robin Simon

Pite club

Sweet nothings

Doing bird

only way is excess

Hacked off

Kanye West: Bully

What the doctor ordered

Paradise lost

Cruelties of popular culture

The dark side of the Moon

Best life

Real life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

Candidates Tournament

Take heed

2747: Head of the herd

The noble work of chairlift diplomacy

The Battle for Britain

Fast talking

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Head for port

Link-up

Epic Fury - a just war indeed • Javid Shah! Long Live The Shah!