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CONTRIBUTORS

Albo’s corrupt media • Every bought-off journo should be made to declare their conflict of interest

COLONIAL NOTES

Hot little wars • How they are shaping our world

Tyranny of the reluctant voter • Compulsory voting is a farce

1943 revisited? • Time for the Coalition to go back to the future

Israel is real • Unlike Palestine

The Anti-Australia Axis • How Labor hates our genuine heroes

Lemon • Angela Merkel and the fate of VW

Denigrating women the progressive way • Labor’s sickening double standards

Boldly going nowhere

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Class warfare • The dire consequences of Labour’s battle against private schools

‘He’s either the Messiah – or the Antichrist’ • On the Clacton campaign trail with Nigel Farage

Get over your imposter syndrome

Spell bound • Is there really such a thing as a sporting curse?

Tax the poor

Blazing stupidity • Don’t blame climate change for moorland wildfires

BAROMETER

BOOKSELLER’S NOTEBOOK

Live and let die • Death positivity is all the rage

Labour’s Gaza problem • Burnham must walk a tightrope when it comes to Israel

It’s the ideology, stupid

All at sea • The Royal Navy has been disastrously neglected

LETTERS

Proud to pay, Gary? Here’s how to be a truly patriotic millionaire

BOOKS & ARTS

An immense conundrum • Nicholas Shakespeare discovers how little he really knew his friend Mario Vargas Llosa

Reflections on the writing life

Confused memories

Nature’s freeloaders

Grief on the reef

The tables turn

The runaway mother

The lure of the red planet

Creepy cute

Poem after Three Words by Anne Truitt, Sculptor (1921-2004)

Just eat your greens

Into the woods

Worth the detour

Culture wars • Will Unesco last another 80 years – and does it deserve to, asks Alex Diggins

Splitting headache

Aussie rules

On your Marx…

Sweet nothings

Joy ride

Living the high life

A gurgle of merriment

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Fast life

Aussie life

Language

Confidence

As you liken it

2763: Set in London

Common perfection

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Will no one think of the vines?

The Battle for Britain

Sweat the small stuff, Mr Burnham

Beyond Manchester

We want Andy’s dad-core vibe

Wood’s words