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The Spectator

24 May 2025 Aus

Ken oath!

Labor’s telling porkies

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Life

Aussie Life

Aussie life

In the 1980s there was a popular watering hole on Sydney’s Lower North Shore called The Plum. Its popularity with…

Aussie Life

Language

I have wanted to write a column on ‘common sense’ for a long time – but it is a surprisingly…

Mind your language

Is Nigel Farage a ‘viper’?

‘Farage is no leader,’ said Rupert Lowe MP. ‘He is a coward and a viper.’ Cedric Hardwicke immediately came to…

Sport

How football found God

Without wanting to sound like a refugee from the 1950s, it was a shame that last week’s Cup Final was…

Food

Food that’s both serious and serene: Babbo reviewed

After a week in which Israel triumphed at the Eurovision Song Contest with second place – western Europe is for…

Still Life

Two years without Jeremy Clarke

Two years ago, at five to eight in the evening of Monday 22 May 2023, I ran into the department…

Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do you decipher modern RSVPs?

Q. I was caught off guard last week by a busybody mother at my son’s boarding school asking us to…

No sacred cows

How do I feed my children now my wife has gone on strike?

Caroline has gone on strike. At least, as far as cooking is concerned. Her case for downing spatulas is that…

Real life

Speed traps are designed to make you fail

The builder boyfriend returned from a trip to London to inform me he was being done for speeding at 32mph,…

The turf

The intrigue of the jockeys merry-go-round

Nearly always a thriller, Newbury’s Lockinge Stakes, instituted in 1958 and a Group 1 race since 1995, is an ever-welcome signpost…

Competition

Spectator Competition: Tubular belles

Competition 3400 invited you to write poems to mark YouTube’s 20th birthday. This challenge drew a large, accomplished entry which…