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A glorious coalition, part 2

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CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

Move over Saint Jacinda • Arise Saint Mark

Business/Robbery, etc • The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Hey Dunning and Kruger, have you met Chris Bowen? • The crippling danger of incompetent ministers

We need real US-style federalism • Hopeless mendicant states should be made to suffer

Libs stuck in the middle • The benefits and flaws of our preferential voting system

Trump’s selfless war • We’re lucky to have him

Bot in my backyard • Guess who will make work for idle hands?

Lawson, Lakemba and Labor • Neither Malinauskas nor Albanese understand One Nation, and are blind to the Islamist threat

Second nature

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

‘We’re into 1973 territory now’

THE SPECTATOR’S NOTES

Zacked off • The Greens are now more about Gaza than the environment

Sash

Gulf fates • The winners and losers of Trump’s war in the Middle East

The real reason the left hates Israel

Non scents • Brussels is making your perfumes worse

Who’s the baddie?

À la cartel • Why are crime gangs going after food?

BAROMETER

Society for all

Czech mate • The clandestine side of Roger Scruton

California dreamin’ • Steve Hilton, former Tory director of strategy, on why he’s running to be state governor

We’ve already given up on novels

LETTERS

Tax burden • Iona Bain on HMRC’s self-assessment shake-up

Child benefit • Arabella Byrne on the rise of the pocket money banking app

Frugal chic • Margaret Mitchell on the movement changing the way women shop

Extra credit • Maxwell Marlow on how to solve the student debt crisis

Never mind bashing ‘profiteers’, slash fuel taxes and green levies

The one who got away • Ian Buruma on the courteous, softly-spoken Nazi who successfully manipulated his interrogators at Nuremberg

Ancestral voices

Towering matriarchs

What actually happened?

March

The mystery of our superpower

Terrible twosomes

The journey from Harlem

Troubled waters

Memories, grief and exile

Ovid enquiry • Alex Diggins on the first major exhibition dedicated to artworks inspired by the Roman poet’s Metamorphoses

Male order

Touching the void

Homage to Chekhov

Twin peaks

Trash talk

The new cold war

Comfort and joy

A daily beauty

Best life

Real life

Aussie life

Language

Surprise winner

Departing this life

2745: Top left

The new class struggle

The Battle for Britain

Engineers beat lawyers

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Of God and the German grape

Straits

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