It is with great sadness that we must inform SpecOz readers that the wonderful Giles Auty passed away last week following a heart attack. Not only was Giles a prolific columnist who was a regular favourite in the pages of The Spectator Australia, where his column cartoon depicted him taking a sledgehammer to the world of post-modern political correctness and neo-Marxism, but he also wrote 500 columns for The UK Spectator during the eighties and nineties of which he was immensely proud.