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The warnings keep coming

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BROWN STUDY

Pauline’s economics problem • Conservatives should cost their policies

The World Cup and economics • A curious mix

The 51st state • History, not hysteria, explains why Greenland matters

Hang together or hang separately • A divided right is Labor’s greatest asset

A world of higher inflation • And higher interest rates

One Nation is not the enemy • Liberals must stop signing national suicide notes

Business/Robbery, etc • Saving the West will take more than the power of prayer

The politics of trade-offs • One Nation and the Coalition each need to recognise their strengths and weaknesses

Don’t move Mahmood

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Burnham begins • The plans for his first ten days

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BAROMETER

Smooth sailing • Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is a triumph

Sick of it • Disability should not be aspirational

Soul sisters • Are you enjoying a ‘nun girl summer’?

Two-tier mourning

Wild ambitions • Turtle doves and the myth of rewilding

Funny business • Social media has saved comedy

Virtue reality • Wales’s mad policy of decolonisation

Bring back the nasty party

LETTERS

Binface has shown Burnham how to make a manifesto

Mission impossible • Jonathan Sumption traces the course of the disastrous Fifth Crusade

Pushing the boundaries

Parisian vignettes

Erik Satie is Alone

A portrait of the artist

Buried in the bog

Radical chic

The Germans are coming

The siege and the journey

Ballet royale • Rupert Christiansen on Britain’s most unabashedly elitist school

Worst in show

Haydn seek

Troy story

Remembrance of things past

Uncivil partnership

Original sin

A Treasury on YouTube

No life

Dog’s life

Still life

Wheel life

Aussie life

Language

Naroditsky Memorial

Resignation

2761: Alphabetical Jigsaw

Call yourselves football fans?

The Battle for Britain

When in doubt, follow the money

Farage’s fear

Hello, Mr Chips

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Restore resurgent

Vanishingly unlikely