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The Spectator

9 December 2023 Aus

Leadership vacuum

Albanese is sucking the air out of Labor

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Watch Cop28 and weep

What a hoot. The global warming cult have finally learned their lesson and decided to hold this year’s annual Cop…

Australian Features

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The Dutch Trump’s big win

Europeans turn against mass immigration and climate craziness

Features Australia

Don’t cry for Milei, Argentina

The Wig takes a chainsaw to the leftards

Features Australia

Roll out the red carpet for jihad

Labor is compromising the safety of all Australians

Features Australia

New Zealand’s Yoni-come-latelies

On the unusual and enduring relationship between Maoris and Jews

Features Australia

Leadership vacuum

Albanese is sucking the air out of Labor

Features Australia

Usurping the dollar

US rivals are desperate to create an alternate reserve currency

Features Australia

Gaza visas are worse than foolhardy

The doomed Albanese government is playing with fire

Books

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Mother’s always angry: Jungle House, by Julianne Pachino, reviewed

But who – or what – is Mother? And are her exasperated warnings about ever-present danger exaggerated?

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Fast and furious: America Fantastica, by Tim O’Brien, reviewed

As the avalanche of lies issuing from the White House morphs into the pandemic, Covid becomes in an engine of justice in this rollicking satire on Trumpworld

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In the dark early 1960s, at least we had the Beatles

The first half of the decade saw towns bulldozed, the Beeching cuts, everyday racism, political scandal and the threat of Armageddon. But there was also Beatlemania…

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The hubris of the great airship designers

Rushing to build the world’s largest flying machine was perhaps Britain’s greatest imperial folly, with a disregard for safety measures dooming the R101 to disaster

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A strong whiff of goodbyes: The Pole and Other Stories, by J.M. Coetzee, reviewed

‘The cogs are seizing up, the lights are going out.’ As Elizabeth Costello clears her desk in this collection of stories, we feel that Coetzee may be doing the same

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Religion provides the rhythm

From the Gospel journeys of Aretha Franklin to the late-life monasticism of Leonard Cohen, the great musical artists of the 20th century were often quasi-religious figures

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Sex and the Famous Five

Before drawing tenuous comparisons between Enid Blyton and David Bowie, Nicholas Royle invites us to consider the erotic potential of Timmy the dog

Lead book review

The splendour and squalor of Venice

In his celebration of Venetian art, Martin Gayford is keenly alert to the city’s spectacular contradictions