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Loveless labours lost

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CONTRIBUTORS

The good ol’ days • Universities then and now

Labour’s messiah seizes the crown • But the King of the North’s honeymoon will be brief

BROWN STUDY

Chalmers’ war on capitalists • Investors are abandoning Australia

Chokepoints seldom last • They rarely achieve political goals

An American Monarch • If only the United States had been allowed to keep the King

Comrade Chalmers’ class war budget • The rhetoric of intergenerational fairness is a front for multigenerational theft

The world’s worst case of TDS • Baby, it’s cold outside

Housing daze • Chalmers seems determined to learn from Keating the hard way

Northern soul

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Burnham’s odyssey • Can he resist the siren call of the left?

Interloper

BAROMETER

Does Burnham even know why he wants to be PM?

Trump’s Suez • The Iran war is the legacy he did not want

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Herd mentality • The real reason for the Dartmoor pony cull

A special relationship • The Spectator’s long and close history with the United States

Painting Days • In memory of Bruce Chilton

Long suffering • Lengthy holidays are the worst

Burnham’s reality check

Resale therapy • There’s no excuse not to dress well

It’s not all over for two-party politics

LETTERS

Alan Greenspan and the slow death of independent central banking

Poet of the Holocaust • Anti-Semitism was the leitmotif of Paul Celan’s life, says Graham Robb

Taking the plunge

Palaces for the people

On a wing and a prayer

Hot and heavy

Reluctant allies Owen Matthews

What is really going on?

A man with a mission

Lines of beauty • Calvin Po celebrates an architectural counterrevolution

A tale of two cities

Black magic

Face value

Choral examination

Mind the gap

You’ve got Mayall

On the shoulders of giants

Beauty, blarney and banshees

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Aussie life

Language

Winton British Chess Solving Championship

In the field

2758: Thousa

School’s out for ever

The Battle for Britain

David slays Goliath

Portrait of the artist

How to survive the heatwave

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Lowe and behold

Exonyms