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Laud’s prayer

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The British intifada • A country in the grip of hate

The Murmur

The South-West Bank • Palestinian nationalism has come to Cornwall

Robert Jenrick is right

Inside job • Restorative justice is under threat from within

Heart brake • My toxic affair with my Land Rover

BAROMETER

Live and let spy • The farce over the collapsed China espionage case

Private rites • The Church of England’s muddle over sex and marriage

LETTER FROM AMERICA

In defence of Chris Cash

Words and deeds

War games • On manoeuvres with the Bundeswehr

Unrivalled • Everyone loved Jilly Cooper – and no one more than me

The elimination of motherhood

LETTERS

How could the Co-op be so hostile to Jewish shoppers?

Saying the unsayable • Which beloved composer will Robin Holloway slaughter next, wonders Alexandra Coghlan

Rough justice

Perfidious rogue

In Looking Glass land

A step too far

Strength of feeling

What comes after Gaza?

A latter-day Lear

A question of attribution • How we teach art history today is woeful, says Richard Morris

Railway lines

Three out of four

Eat, sleep, perform, repeat • What does it feel like to do the same show 355 times in one year? M.G. Scott on an actor’s life

Wilde at heart

Relative values

Taylor made

On the house

The death of cinéma vérité

THE LISTENER

The rustle of underwear

Personalised number plates

Dolce vita

Real life

The turf

Bridge

Aussie life

Language

Down to the wire

Virtue-signalling

2724: Word building

All aboard the ship of hate

The Battle for Britain

Did fear of elitism stick its oar in?

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Many shades of grey

Greenlit

Hubris, Albanese’s greatest renewable resource • Long-term Labor rule is not guaranteed

Stop the marches

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CONTRIBUTORS

Oh Lord, won’t you buy me an EV? • Decisions, decisions

Climate corruption • The Senate submissions stitch-up

Marrying the mirror • Our incestuous politics

Victoria going Caracas • From mendicant Melbourne to bereft Ballarat...

Dazed Libs should heed their own history • With the right policies, Labor can be defeated

Lawyers and legacy media • Judicial power is out of control

From Gaza with hate • Grumpy Greta’s obscene pantomime

Protest the protests • Use 18C to ban the anti-Jew hate marches

Dressing the word salad