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The Spectator

20 January 2024 Aus

How Britain sobered up

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Australia

Leading article Australia

Celebrating the spirit of Oz

As the long summer holidays draw to a close, Australia’s malcontents have roused themselves for their annual attack on Australia’s…

Australian Columnists

Brown Study

Brown study

I was intrigued by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor’s speech in London a few weeks ago at a conference of the…

Australian Features

Features Australia

Climate con exposed in serene Seychelles

What is heating the oceans isn’t human CO2 emissions

Features Australia

Billionaire Islamists behind the war

Qatar is not an honest broker in the Middle East

Features Australia

Putin’s useful idiot down under

Albanese should give Ukraine our retired army helicopters not bury them

Features Australia

For the love of our country

Don’t raze Australian culture in the name of progress

Features Australia

Taking ‘conserve’ out of conservative

There is much to jettison in the Anglosphere

Features Australia

Taiwan rebuffs Xi’s overtures

Expect more bullying and aggression from the CCP

Features Australia

Perils of surrendering sovereignty

International organisations are exemplars of political correctness

Features Australia

Keeping Australia Day

The fabrication of Aboriginal history

Books

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How Liverpool soon outgrew the Beatles

For the bands playing at Eric’s, the celebrated Merseyside punk club of the late 1970s, even to own a Beatles record was considered embarrassing

Lead book review

Have we all become more paranoid since the pandemic?

Covid-19 proved devastating to our self-confidence and faith in others, says Daniel Freeman, who describes the ‘corrosive’ effects of mistrust on individuals and society

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Life is a far richer, more complicated affair than we imagined

Exploring the new biology, Philip Hall explains how genes do not in fact determine our fate, and how cells can be reprogrammed to perform all kinds of new tasks

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Flirting in 15th-century Florence

In his history of male-male sexual relations, Noel Malcolm describes how a man in Renaissance Italy would seduce a boy in the street by seizing his hat and holding it ransom

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The summer I dwelt in marble halls

Gill Johnson recalls the glorious months she once spent in the ‘gilded labyrinth’ of a Venetian palazzo, employed as an English tutor to an aristocratic Italian family

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A redemptive fable: Night Watch, by Jayne Anne Phillips, reviewed

Set in the Appalachian Mountains, the novel centres around a family struggling to survive domestic abuse and abandonment in the aftermath of the American civil war

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Musings in lockdown: The Vulnerables, by Sigrid Nunez, reviewed

Marooned in Manhattan with a stoned student and precocious parrot for company, our elderly narrator despairs of the novel’s future when life is so much stranger than fiction

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Refugee lives: The Singularity, by Balsam Karam, reviewed

The stories of two tragic mothers are interwoven in a haunting novel revolving around war, displacement, despair and the loss of children

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How The Sopranos changed TV for ever

Peter Biskind describes how a once despised medium became the definitive narrative art form of the early 21st century. But has it now passed its peak?

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Dangerous secrets: Verdigris, by Michele Mari, reviewed

A lonely teenager on holiday in Italy befriends his grandparents’ elderly gardener and slowly coaxes out his painful memories of betrayals and reprisals during the war