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CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

Albanese discovers reality • The ABC discovers Netanyahu

Unions lose the plot • The relentless drift towards wokeness

Australia’s most dangerous word • How Canberra is ruining the country

Australia - the pretending nation • Reality has now caught up

Why the right keeps shooting itself in the foot on free speech • Embrace what we already have

Sympathy for the Devil • Aussie drone engineers can’t get no satisfaction

Clerical error • Who will rule Iran?

Europe reverses on EVs • But not yet eco-puritan Britain

Power struggle

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Game plan • Trump is rapidly dismantling Xi’s anti-America coalition

Little Song

LETTER FROM DUBAI

Dubai’s Ritz spirit

‘Whose side are you on?’ • How Keir Starmer alienated Britain’s allies over Iran

Winter’s First-born Snow

Operation Epic Muddle • Inside MAGA’s meltdown over Iran

A hush falls, then Starmer speaks

Mental block • When progressive ideology kills

Education needs a great leap backwards

Cheer and loathing • The tyranny of niceness must be resisted

Misguided empire

Is this Starmer’s finest hour?

Iran’s martyr complex • Ancient history could be on the side of Khamenei’s supporters

The homoeroticism of looksmaxxing

LETTERS

Inflation is steaming towards us from the Strait of Hormuz • ANY OTHER BUSINESS

A terrible beauty • Tim Butcher on the corrupting power of gold

Blood-stained laurels

Fish out of water

Into the woods

Steamy stuff

Selfian flourishes

Secrets and lies

Massacre of the innocents

The new Wagnerian A-lister • Since his first Wotan in Naples in 2023, the baritone Christopher Maltman has found himself in demand on every major stage. Richard Bratby spoke to him

Restoration tragedy • The failure of plans to rebuild and repair the Palace of Westminster could have catastrophic consequences, says Alex Diggins

There will be blood

Links to rock past

Piatti Quartet: Phantasy

There’s something about Mary Ann

The full English

Kitchen sink drama

Past lives

That glimpse of grandeur

50p coins

Still life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Top draw

The borrowers

2742: The Hobbit

Why I’m a proud Zionist

The Battle for Britain

Kane is able

YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Counter intelligence

Grandee

Albanese’s child gender-transition time bomb • A gutless government will bring catastrophe upon us all