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Identity crisis
PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK
DIARY
‘I have a lot of self-belief’ • Kemi Badenoch is raring for a fight
Tail End Charlie
Lady killers • The Tories must free themselves from the cult of Thatcher
Heavy vetting • My time with the security services
BAROMETER
Meddle ground • Moldova has been saved from Russian influence, but at what cost?
Study skills
Extinction rebellion • Is it time to bring back the dodo?
The Murray Test for TV drama
Soft cell • The luxury of French prisons
LETTER FROM CAPE COD
There is no fad too crazy
Veni, vidi, vici • Learning to speak Latin and Ancient Greek can save civilisation
LETTERS
A scary parable of the cyber-crime pandemic
Bacon and egg pie
Debunking myths • Like most good historians, Graham Robb relishes the chance of correcting popular but erroneous beliefs, says Philip Hensher
Feathered torpedoes
In the wake of the Holocaust
Above the battered city
A guilty pleasure
The shape of things to come
All in a night’s work
Yellow and Blue (The Miner’s Vision)
The art of dining • Margaret Mitchell talks to Ivan Day, Britain’s premier food historian, about sugar sculptures, flying tables and kitchen desecration
Trivial pursuits
Johnny be good
State of the art
Natural born thriller
Partridge shoot
Portrait of a Lady
Looming horror of the heart
Swan eating
No life
Real life
Wild life
Bridge
Aussie life
Language
Emerging prodigy
What day is it?
2723: Not like us
We could use the ruthless pragmatism of Singapore
Battle for Britain
Why it pays to be unpopular
DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED
Cross-pollination
Diffuse
Trump warns Albo • You’re destroying Australia
Harm’s way
THE SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA
CONTRIBUTORS
B1 goes full monty • Bungling, bumbling, bonkers Bowen
AUSTRALIAN DIARY
Albo in La-La land • Clowning around overseas with Bowen and Wong
Voice returns to haunt Victoria • Allan’s Treaty Bill will entrench racial division
Slowly, then all at once • Australia’s looming economic disaster
Gaza, the peace plan • Here’s what’s truly shocking
If Osama bin Laden were alive today • How the Muslim Brotherhood’s agenda has infiltrated the West
Wake up and smell the coffee • The gathering storm of the over-educated
Omitting emissions • Elephant in the climate room