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The perils of commenting • Criticising immigration could put you behind bars

Bring back Tony Abbott • Stop the Albo

Refusing to rule America • The Supreme Court’s approach to abortion is being replicated

Business/Robbery, etc • Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ and what it means for Australia

Delulu Lib bed-wetters • Labor-lite Liberals imagine they are the heirs to John Stuart Mill. They are not.

The hate that dare not speak its name • On policing free speech

Maga: perish the thought • Trump is re-making the world in America’s image

Visa versa • How Burke punishes Israel and indulges Islamism

Made in China

Take back control

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

The guilty men • Meet the ideologues undermining Britain’s national interest

What’s your hurry?

Meme come true • How an AI-generated goth girl became a nationalist icon

Why won’t the BBC use the word ‘Jews’?

‘There’s an awful lot more bile now’ • Jonathan Lynn on politics, cancel culture and staging a sequel to Yes Minister

Wake-up call • We should all regret the loss of the landline

The censors are winning

In the doghouse • Welcome to XL bully death row

Swan song • Banning Russian art only weakens Ukraine

Gateway glug • Let children experience alcohol

BAROMETER

The creeping tentacles of wealth taxes

Athenian scruples

Shadow game • The perils of writing a modern spy novel

LETTERS

Why Starmer should have taken the Night Manager to Beijing

Growing up with the Mafia • Ian Thomson on the Sicilian writer who turned detective fiction on its head

There’s the rub

Flattening forces

Counter Culture

A joyous philosophical romp

Love and betrayal

Macabre vignettes

The war in the shadows

Cowboy politics in Paris

Bound for the gallows

Desperate times, desperate measures

Sex and the city • Muriel Zagha on the golden age of the French brothel

Iberia: RLPO/Hindoyan

Death metal

Wimps in Whitehall

Succession

Shooting star

The Neapolitan Horowitz

Let there be light

Goodbye to all that

Dazzled and satiated

Calpol

Dolce vita

Real life

Aussie life

Language

A tale of two cities

I’ll take Manhattan

2737: 19x24 inches

Can superintelligent AI be regulated?

MICHAEL HEATH

The stealth philanthropy of buying a Range Rover

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Savoy thrill

Sweet treat

The Peanut Farmer’s bitter harvest • Iran’s darkness was enabled by a treacherous West