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Congratulations, Mr Taylor

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CONTRIBUTORS

IR is now a lost cause • Graft, corruption and thuggery go unchecked

Minister Marles unfit for military service • Why are we flogging off our historic military assets?

Can Taylor fix the broken covenant? • First, he must re-establish Liberal authority

Taylor to the rescue • There’s a new conservative Liberal leader in town. Get behind him

The Angusean stable • Taylor’s Herculean task

100% Angus. No bull • The Taylor cabinet’s choice cuts

Revenge of the Somewheres • Barnaby and I share some grievances

J’accuse Labor for Bondi • Did the government’s failure to counter the overt antisemitism of the pro-Palestinian crowd lead to the massacre?

Queers for Gaza, Isis brides for Oz • Labor fails Australians yet again

Hollowed out

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Indefensible • How Keir Starmer dropped the ball on military spending

Sunrise Symphonies

Continent adrift • Europe remains in denial about its defence

The numbers game • Can Nato troops keep pace with their enemies?

Friends with benefits

Terminates here • The last bus out of Mousehole

Don’t underestimate the ‘stop Farage’ alliance

BAROMETER

County crimes • On the trail of the organised gangs terrorising farmers

Crude awakening • David Lammy’s curious relationship with Guyanese Big Oil

A right mess

WRITER’S NOTEBOOK

The genius of Kenneth Williams

Whistle blowers • Why football referees and banks should fear over-regulation

My Epstein confession

LETTERS

Nostalgia for the City’s banks and buildings is no bad thing

Spirits of the Blitz • Philip Hensher is entranced by a fantastical novel set in war-torn London

A grand old democracy

Philosophical rambles

A quiet genius

A hardheaded romantic

Down the rushy glen

Mirror images

Deptford Strand

The art of conspiracy • A new exhibition fails to understand the appeal of mad theories, says Sam Kriss

Sunny delight

Natural born thriller

Strangeness and charm

Athenian rhapsody

Stranger things

An innocent man

Cairn

The write stuff

Jim Hacker rides again

Strange and familiar

Offal

No life

Real life

The turf

Aussie life

Language

Freestyle World Championship

Wintry look

2740: Not so objective

My brush with Hope Not Hate

The Battle for Britain

The Winter Olympics are really delivering

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Joy among the elves

Stele

Give us back our streets • Send the protestors to the Domain