CONTENT
i Leading article
Expelling Moira iv Cleaning out the Augean stable in Victoria Fed Libs must intervene Kevin Andrews v Can Trump win?
Libs need a Canadian makeover James Allan vi Euro notes
Sovereignty Michael Sexton vii Yet another lock-up to avoid
Victorian budget Judith Sloan viii The Woke Health Organisation?
WHO the global nanny Ramesh Thakur ix Malice in Proscuitto Land
The martyrdom of Moira Rebecca Weisser x No Voice can fix this chaos
Real problems of outback communities John-Paul Baladi xi We already have a Voice
… and it’s useless Joe Stella xii Yes, refugees are welcome
No, we can’t take everyone Tony Letford
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THE WEEK
3 Leading article 4 Portrait of the Week 5 Diary
Turkey’s existential crossroads Elif Shafak 6 Politics Is Rishi out of ideas?
Katy Balls 7 Rod Liddle
My Eurovision winners and losers 11 Douglas Murray
Fake it till you make it 13 Barometer Percy Pigs, trade unions and qualified migrants 16 Ancient and modern
The mercy of death 19 Matthew Parris Could
Derbyshire survive on its own? 20 Lionel Shriver
The myths around immigration 21 Any other business Rampant unions will embed high inflation Martin Vander Weyer
Bi shots, 18
8 Migration nation
A second great wave is under way Fraser Nelson 9 John Fuller
‘Blind’: a poem 10 Letter from Taiwan
In the shadow of ‘The Bully’ Kate Andrews 12 Baltic view
Lithuania’s Prime Minister on what a Ukrainian victory would look like Owen Matthews 14 Carbon fixation
Europe’s net-zero backlash Ross Clark 15 Unreality shows
The blurred lines between sport and entertainment Tom Goodenough 16 Organ trail
The politician, the street trader and the foiled kidney transplant plot J. Meirion Thomas 18 Bullet points
In Serbia, the gun is a way of life Charlotte Eagar
Charles Moore and Jeremy Clarke are away.
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