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The Spectator

27 January 2024 Aus

Morality flips

Our moral universe is upside-down

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Leading article Australia

ScoMo steps aside

Former prime minister Scott Morrison, who this week announced his retirement from politics, deserves our respect and praise for being…

Australian Columnists

Brown Study

Brown study

I have had enough of the Aboriginal industry and the posturing, harassment and denigration that it hurls at everyone else.…

Australian Features

Features Australia

Coming up Trumps

Conservatives must get behind the former and likely next President of the USA

Features Australia

Storm in an ABC cup

Look who’s cancelling Palestine

Features Australia

Elitist bullies at Woolies

Big Business is way out of touch with ordinary Australians

Features Australia

Davos in Darlington

How woke has infested our business elites

Features Australia

C is for Cop, D is for Davos

The crony capitalist crowd gathers

Features Australia

Morality flips

Our moral universe is upside-down

Features Australia

Our foreign debt time bomb

An explosion threatens when interest rates rise

Features Australia

Power to the people

Politicians as servants not masters

Books

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Escape into fantasy: My Heavenly Favourite, by Lucas Rijneveld, reviewed

The 14-year-old daughter of a Dutch farmer is pursued by a paedophile vet and tries hard to combat the abuse by imagining she’s a bird

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An insider’s account of the CCP’s stranglehold on China

A high-ranking intelligence officer leaves a cache of letters revealing his increasing disenchantment with the party after being purged numerous times

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A Guardsman’s life as not as glamorous as it might seem

Besides taking part in dangerous operational tours abroad, units of the Household Division keep up a gruelling schedule of ceremonial duties at home

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Secrets of the dorm: Come and Get It, by Kiley Reid, reviewed

An academic who also writes a column for a teen magazine eavesdrops on the conversations of rich university students and reproduces them for readers to sneer at

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Have we all become slaves to algorithms?

Kyle Chayka sees their constant feeds as flattening our lives, but the spread of Americanisation, which began long before the internet, is the real steamroller

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Conrad Black adheres firmly to the ‘great man’ view of history

The movers and shakers of Volume I of his projected history of the world are Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Hannibal rather than any socio-economic forces

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Mystery in everyday objects

Household gadgets take on a sense of wonder or menace for Lara Pawson, who sees a porpoise’s dorsal fin in the dial of a toaster and a hand grenade in a pepper mill

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The strangeness of Charles III

‘He can cry at a sunset’, says one courtier of the King. A bullied child and an intellectual among George Formby fans, Charles dreams of gardening and plants mazes

Lead book review

The problem with westerners seeking oriental enlightenment

Those chasing after blissful satori never seem interested in the people who actually live in Asia. They want to float in higher spheres