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No means no

Vale, Teena McQueen

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

Britain has a governess • Her name is Kemi

BROWN STUDY

What’s in a name? • And who do you trust to deliver conservative policies

Hey, big spenders • The states and territories run amok

Australia’s kulaks face vicious campaign • One Nation’s surge began during 2025 election campaign

Words that changed the world • The Declaration overturned centuries of assumptions about hereditary power and authority

Nowak sacrificed on the altar of DEI • Antiracism is a deadly new religion

Erasing the portrait of a nation • Where have all the pre-Federation paintings gone?

We are many but we are one • Values are what unite people of vastly different ancestry and cultural practices

Freedom matters

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Dark Green money • The shady funding of net zero

The conversion con • A proposed therapy ban is about trans, not gay, rights

The confessions of J.D. Vance

Marry in haste • Weddings should be short and to the point

Striking back • The truth about how the British Empire is taught in schools

Putin’s parallel universe • The Russian President is losing his grip on reality

Injury Time

Forward defensive • How to fix English cricket

My own Epic Fury

BAROMETER

Odd couple • Why is Giorgia Meloni courting Emmanuel Macron?

Farewell, Carpenter, and thank you

Storm warnings for Burnham from the weathermen of Basel

The power of projection • Philip Hensher on how the movies have shaped our behaviour

The Andromeda effect

Plus ça change

Affinity with a stranger

The tyranny of family life

Soldiering on

The man behind the Fab Four

Vodka and toast

Insider knowledge

Designs for living

Knock on wood

Godfather of hardcore • Michael Hann talks to Charlie Harper of UK Subs about 50 years on punk’s front line

Face time

The only way is excess

Inside job

Art of darkness

To be Frank

Meccha Chameleon

Bread and circuses

Tip-Toeing in Manchester

Squishies

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

Dragon Chilling

Semiquincentennial

2759: Morning exercise

Protect to survive is a mug’s game

The Battle for Britain

Hot topic

Drawing the line

It’s all Greek

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Theories of Burnhamism

King of the North