Cover 13 June 2015 AU

13 June 2015 9:00 am

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Get a job

13 June 2015 9:00 am

‘I grew up… with an unemployed father. He didn’t riot. He got on his bike and he looked for work. And…

Consider this…

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Tell a big lie often enough… ‘This government will cost schools in Scullin $201 million – $201 million ripped out…

Australian Notes

13 June 2015 9:00 am

The redoubtable Andrew Bolt wants a referendum on same sex marriage. Edmund Burke gave the best and traditional answer to…

Big Easy notes

13 June 2015 9:00 am

I’m hoping that at least a few readers will be happy to hear that I survived my first ever trip…

Bottom Drawer

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Why is the Magna Carta glossed over in our schools?

Catalan Diary

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Before there was Nineteen Eighty- Four and Animal Farm, there was Homage to Catalonia written by George Orwell in 1938.…

Culture Buff

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Bill Dobell is back in town. At least an aspect of his output, titled Painter in Paradise: William Dobell in…

A birthday worth celebrating

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Thanks to the Magna Carta, we avoided the dismal fate of becoming another Argentina

Killing it

13 June 2015 9:00 am

They were the political grotesques that political junkies can’t get enough of. Thank god they’re back.

Clash of the gay-marriage glory-hunters

13 June 2015 9:00 am

From corporations to politicians, everyone’s looking to purify themselves via gay marriage

Message

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

A tiny fly is moving over the page of my dull book this sultry evening, and it is my conceit…

Oh dear

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…

Oh dear

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

How many times these days I say those words, Muttering them quietly under my breath Or petulantly as the telephone…

Battle for Britain

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

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Triple tie

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

This week I conclude my coverage of the Fidé (World Chess Federation) Grand Prix which finished last month in Khanty-Mansiysk.…

No. 366

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

Black to play. This is from Rodriguez-Xiong, California 2012. How does Black finish off? Answers to me at The Spectator…

Pylon poetry

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

In Competition No. 2901 you were invited to write a poem in praise of a modern-day blot on the landscape.…

Your problems solved

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

Q. My parents brought me up to write only my name in a visitors’ book. However, following a recent long…

Grills just want to have fun

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

The Beaumont Hotel is a bright white cake in the silent part of Mayfair, where the only sound is Patek…

A lot to ask

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

David Cameron is now facing the biggest challenge of his leadership: how to renegotiate Britain’s membership of the EU without…

High life

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…

Long life

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

It’s June, and the country-house summer opera festivals are now in full swing. Glyndebourne, which opened the season last month,…

Long life

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

It’s June, and the country-house summer opera festivals are now in full swing. Glyndebourne, which opened the season last month,…

Low life

11 June 2015 1:00 pm

On Sunday morning, I was kicking a football in the back garden with my grandson. I had bought him his…