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Shame on Tame, shame on Australia

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CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

B1 does it again • It’s all our fault, apparently

Rev up your chainsaws! • The right must commit to slashing government - and mean it

Rumours of the Coalition’s resurrection • ...have been greatly exaggerated

Hands up those who want to work in a sweat shop? • The myth of an Australian industrial revival

Can we mend the fractures in the right? • Authenticity beats ideology in Australian politics

Is Iran our Last Chance Saloon? • The West must wake up, and fast

No Grace under fire • Rebel with a vile cause

Not Britain’s finest hour • How Starmer sank the Special Relationship

Finish the job

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The Miliband supremacy

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

‘The Tory vote will disintegrate overnight’ • Inside Reform’s plan to devour the Conservatives

New Hat

Acting out

Regime change may make matters worse

Battle softened • Our army has lost its fighting spirit

Who’d want a Cameo from me?

LETTER FROM HAVANA

There is no ‘special relationship’ with Trump

Capital punishment • An A-Z of London horrors

The end of Trumpism • The President has fatally miscalculated by attacking Iran

Gown and out • The hidden truth about our failing universities

BAROMETER

The glaring flaw in Starmer’s ‘cohesion plan’

LETTERS

Revolut’s banking licence: a win for Reeves or a red flag?

Chocolate mousse

The world narrows • As old friends die and his capabilities wane, Alan Bennett becomes increasingly reflective, says Philip Hensher

Being Wystan

From magic to realism

The third Rome

Honest, kind and fair

A chronicle of vanishing freedom

Inherited trauma

Fab four • The cellist of the world’s finest string quartet is about to retire. Richard Bratby meets him

Saint and sinner

In thrall to virtuosity

Brat spring

Mr president

Would he go full Doddy?

Resident Evil: Requiem

Mary, Mary, not contrary

Skits on sexuality

A versatile and virtuouso figure

Kimonos

Dolce vita

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Varsity Match

Budding poets

2744: Fiddles

Manosphere and loathing

The Battle for Britain

Arsenal’s boy wonder is the future of English football

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Antipasti? I’m pro

Back-formations

Epic Fury will liberate Iran • But only Australians can liberate Australia