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Pride of lionesses

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

Pauline? Not our sort of person • Why the right would rather lose than unite

Divisive diversity divas • DEI spells disaster

The Great Rort • The NDIS is Australia’s most expensive policy failure

The terrifying case of Dr Amos • When compliance is more important than conscience

Nice work if you can get it • The Juukan Gorge travesty

Middle-class revolutionaries • The cowardly response to Iran is more than revealing

Lionesses in the land of Oz • An unsung anthem heard around the world

SATIRICAL NOTES

Britain’s Trump card

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Lammy’s depraved new world

THE SPECTATOR'S NOTES

Operation madman • Could Trump’s Iran war turn out to be an epic fail?

Ode to a Housing Estate Blackbird

‘We are already aligning’ • The Iran conflict is driving us closer to the EU

My Lego Life

‘Here’s a novel concept – arrest bad people’ • Sir Stephen Watson on how he turned Greater Manchester Police around

Has Nigel Farage missed his moment?

Springer fever • The Telegraph is in safe hands

Why the silence on Iran’s gays?

Lest we forget • Those who believe in liberalism need to fight for it

Poor thinking

High note • My addiction to the piano

BAROMETER

The elephant in the room

Korea opportunities • Is Kim Jong-un lining up a female successor?

Brag race • The art to left-wing boasting

LETTERS

Private credit is the slumbering crocodile in the money pond

Full of ecstasy and fire • Owen Matthews on one of history’s most extraordinary charlatans

O brother, where art thou?

Expat wheeler-dealers

Great expectations

Between the devil and the deep sea

Playing tennis with Ezra Pound

Morality goes into reverse

Deft financial footwork

Fragile loyalties

The serious business of fun

Age concern • What does greater longevity mean for us all, asks Simon Ings

Joy ride

Second thoughts

Mob mentality

Bad blood

Post-human condition

The great pretenders

Harry Styles: Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally

Uncanny mutations

Sneezing

No life

Real life

Wild life

Aussie life

Language

A beautiful game

No thanks

2743: 3/4

Am I an extremist? Toby Young

The Battle for Britain

America’s founding myth is a tedious sob story

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Venice peach

Meta

Pauline warns of jihad • History says she’s right