CONTENT
i Leading article
Voice of hypocrites iv Why you should vote No
Subsidised apartheid is no solution Maurice Newman vi More green fairy tales
Hydrogen to the rescue Judith Sloan vii Yes, the Voice is racist
In conception, content and consequences Ramesh Thakur viii Business/Robbery, etc
Census facts unsettle the Voice fantasy Michael Baume ix Rock of Ages
Dinosaurs wake up to woke David Cohen x Principled Peter
Not Peter Principle James Allan xi Polly wants a crisis
They’ve all gone crackers Rebecca Weisser xii Voice of reason
Voice of reason Eric Abetz
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Grey zone warfare, p24
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 4 Portrait of the Week 5 Diary
Death by a thousand cuts Anthony Horowitz 8 Barometer Doomsday clock,
HMRC fines, flu jabs 9 Rod Liddle
When fantasy meets reality 13 Douglas Murray
America and the racism lens 18 Ancient and modern
The example of Cato 19 Mary Wakefield
Why do police clump together? 20 Letters LGBT support, dog leads,
stamps and jargon 21 Any other business
Unilever and the question of purpose before profit Martin Vander Weyer
Muppet diplomacy, p25
6 Spring loaded
How will the Ukraine war end? Owen Matthews 7 John Levett
‘A Post-It Note’: a poem 8 All or nothing
Ukraine will not accept compromise in any form Svitlana Morenets 10 Small isn’t beautiful
The dangerous myth of degrowth Ross Clark 12 The battle for Asia
Japan looks for anti-China allies Rana Mitter 14 Empire state of mind
A debate about colonialism’s legacy Nigel Biggar and Matthew Parris 18 Dog days
Don’t ban greyhound racing Neil Clark
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