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Lazarus’s thirtieth

Bondi exposed

The Spectator Australia

CONTRIBUTORS

The Jim & Katy Show • Are they now the weakest link?

Business/Robbery, etc • Why a bullying China wants its Darwin port

Howard’s 30th anniversary • Remembering the last worthwhile government this country had

Is this really our worst government ever? • It’s certainly up there

Israel’s actual failing • Where judges give themselves the power to rule

The American project endures • The tariff decision proves the wisdom of the US Supreme Court

Albo brings back the dobbers • Informing on and denouncing your fellow citizens is now Australian law

Carry on Caliphate • Radical insurgents will never leave us alone

Return of the zombie guerilla writers • Adelaide’s toxic talkfest is back from the dead

Degrees of frustration

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Quid pro quo • The troubling closeness of the Treasury and the City

My Cavafy Poem

In bed together • The writers of HBO’s Industry on bankers and politicians

My neurological condition

Bloc parties • A guide to Britain’s new radical right

Radio active • Our first encounter with aliens is closer than ever

‘Idiots, sycophants and traitors’ • Inside Russia’s rotten army

BAROMETER

Trial by outrage • Ghislaine’s case shows why we must not abandon due process

Aussie rules • Young Brits now aspire to be more Australian

Leader board

The perils of idiocracy

Operation Certain Death • The daring plan to reclaim Chagos

The real reason I left Britain

LETTERS

The quango stopping London building new homes

The Welsh chancer • Henry Tudor’s claim to the English throne was dangerously tenuous, and securing it came at a heavy cost, both to himself and the country, says David Crane

What the bellhop saw

Woke wars

A Poetic Connection

Close but no cigar

Venice’s dark backwater

Painting like a banshee

Eliminate the negative

Power dressing

To read is to love

Savage beauty • Architect, adventurer, playwright and spy, John Vanbrugh defies taxonomy, says Jonathan Meades

Relative values

Vanity fayre

The man who would be King

Bland ahoy

An inconvenient truth

Don’t Take It For Granted

God’s little artist

A hoard of lost treasure

Moustaches

Dolce vita

Real life

Aussie life

Language

Remembering Jan Timman

Hope stings

2741: Unsurpassable

What’s Starmer’s game with the Lords?

The Battle for Britain

It’s time to give the Welsh their due

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Liquid gods

Both things can be true

Pauline, Tribune of the Disillusioned • Importing Islamist radicalism from Cairo to Lakemba