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CONTRIBUTORS

Multicultural model crumbles • Who defines social cohesion?

The Leeser of two evils • Liberals who like Albo’s hate speech bill should not be in cabinet

Antisemitism in Australia • Words lead to death

Waiting for Islam’s reformation • The problem is not just theology but cultural practices

Recycling Mamdani • Green housing schemes are a recipe for shortages

Death of Dilbert • Scott Adams was one of the most influential Americans of the Trump era

Cardinal memories

Baton of iron

From terra nullius to terror Australis • The demonisation of settler colonialism underlies the left’s antisemitism

More in common

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Arctic role • The battle for Greenland

The Death of the Autocrats

‘Pray your boilers don’t fail’ • The C of E’s fanatical drive to net zero

The true villains of our TV crime dramas? The creators

‘It takes a sort of balls to defect’ • Robert Jenrick’s first interview since joining Reform

Blue Moon Valley

Trojan panda • The Chinese takeover of Britain’s elite education system

BAROMETER

Serious beef • The EU’s latest attack on Europe’s farmers

Our sleeping policemen

Future proof

The Haldane principles • A blueprint for transforming Britain

Smokescreen • It’s not social media that’s ruining childhood

Degrees of untruth

The Valkyries of the House of Lords

Lima’s monument to memory

Trump is the antithesis of Davos Man but it’s still a one-man show

Lemon and poppyseed cake

Warrior monks • Combining monastic vows with military prowess, the Teutonic knights sought to expand the frontiers of Christianity in this world while earning salvation in the next, says Jonathan Sumption

A monstrous metamorphosis

The mother of all battles

A labyrinth of intrigues

Weather Warning

The glamour of evil

A time for reconciliation

Dead souls

The coldest war

The triumph of materialism

Fact and fiction • Arthur I. Miller on the relationship between science and drama

Pacific heights

The play’s the thing

Wings of desire

They should be so lucky

Poetry, please

Farrago of nonsense

Mother inferior

Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Celluloid nostalgia for lost worlds

Airfix

Still life

Real life

The turf

Kiwi life

Language

Young contender

Dear John

2736: Jammy

How do we stop young women from becoming radicalised?

The Battle for Britain

Tickled pink

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Present perfect

Mired

The scorpion and the frog • A parable for Albanese’s Australia