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CONTRIBUTORS

Move over B1, B2’s in the spotlight now • Burke’s even worse than Bowen

When flags are burning... • Should the law interfere?

How did the Nats end up more liberal than the Libs? • Time for a grassroots reformation of the Liberal party

Five days pay, four days work • The Launceston lesson

Meet Dr Jim, the Bracket Creep • Labor’s economic plan is nothing but theft and sabotage

When independence became conditional • If the dollar is power, central banks cannot be neutral

US-UK relationship nosedives • Trump gets it right vetoing Starmer’s insane Chagos giveaway

Conservative rage against the party machine • Abbott, Taylor and the great Liberal walkout

Distract yourself from the mess we’re in • A litany of Aussie doom and gloom can be alleviated by the footy, US-style

Machine learning

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The torrent • Is the government prepared for the changes AI is about to wreak?

The Private of the Bluffs

Grid lock • The glaring flaw in Keir Starmer’s AI plans

I was right about Mandy

Red-tape state • AI will bring down the lanyard class

The British should have their holy places

Scandal sheet • The indelible stain of the Epstein emails

BAROMETER

The art of decluttering

Empty shell • Our armed forces are hollow — and our enemies know it

Putin’s secret weapon • Can Russia’s shadow fleet be stopped?

Roman censorship

Spin doctors • The rise of the patronising medic

Religious hypocrisy killed off assisted dying

‘I want to stop the Antichrist’ • Can Peter Thiel succeed?

Fat chance • The inconvenient truth about polar bears

LETTERS

The role of ABBA in the Ajax fiasco

The new Dark Ages • Ian Thomson on a restlessly enquiring family memoir that sounds a warning against authoritarianism

Delusions of grandeur

Filthy lucre

An ark in need of salvation

A complex collaboration

All that glisters

The naked truth

Bring up the bodies • Robin Simon on the parallels between the worlds of Canova and Donald Trump

A pocket of the past • Adam Scovell laments the demise of London’s junk shops

Taylor made

The first lady vanishes

East Enders

Directors’ cut

Scouse style

Gospel truth

Camp indulgence

Teddy bears

Best life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Tata Steel Masters

Veg out

2738: First-rate third-rate

It’s not all wrong ’uns in the Epstein files

The Battle for Britain

Don’t assume the worst of Wales

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Dream palace

Bitch

One Nation ascendant • Pauline measures curtains at the Lodge