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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 Follow us on Twitter: @SpectatorOz Spectator Australia letters to the editor and enquiries: editor@spectator.com.au Stu ed Turke , 5 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. Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, John Broadley, RGJ, Tim Bales, Robert Thompson, Dredge, Nick Newman, K.J. Lamb, Stokoe, Mark Wood, Bernie, Wilbur, Matt Percival. www.spectator.co.uk Rates for a basic annual subscription in the UK: £111; Europe: £185; Australia: AU$349.99; New Zealand: NZ$409.99; and AU$409.99 in all other countries. To order, go to www.spectator.co.uk/A151A or call 0330 3330 050 and quote A151A. Editorial and advertising The Spectator, 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP, Tel: 020 7961 0200, Fax: 020 7681 3773, Email: editor@ spectator.com.au (editorial); letters@spectator.co.uk (for publication); advertising@spectator.co.uk (advertising); Advertising enquiries: 020 7961 0222 Subscription and delivery queries IPG Media P O Box 393, Belmont, WA 6984, Australia. Tel: 1800 809 233. From NZ: +6189 362 4134. Email: spectator@ ipgmedia.com.au Spectator Australia advertising Tel: +44 (0)20 7961 0222, advertising@pressholdings.com Spectator Australia marketing William Delmont, Tel: +44 (0)20 7961 0004. Email: wdelmont@spectator.co.uk. Spectator Australia Distribution enquiries Tel +61 (0)8 9362 4134. Vol 352; no 10,160 © The Spectator (1828) Ltd. ISSN 0038-6952 The Spectator is published weekly by The Spectator (1828) Ltd at 22 Old Queen Street, London SW1H 9HP Editor: Fraser Nelson Spectator Australia Editor: Rowan Dean editor@spectator.com.au ii 20 2023 . . .
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Gorgeous Georgians, p48 Feline fine, p27 Making a murderer, p37 BOOKS & ARTS LIFE BOOKS 22 Philip Hensher Mother Tongue, by Jenni Nuttall 24 Declan Ryan Sleeping on Islands, by Andrew Motion Graham Boynton Winnie and Nelson, by Jonny Steinberg 25 William Leith The Paper Man, by Billy O’Callaghan 26 Michael Arditti The Writing School, by Miranda France Claire Booker ‘In the Martyred Intellectuals Cemetery, Dhaka’: a poem 27 Oliver Soden The Age of Cats, by Jonathan Losos 28 Chloë Ashby Monsters, by Claire Dederer Cindy Yu Radical, by Xiaolu Guo 29 Nick Duerden Same Old Girl, by Sylvia Patterson 30 David Honigmann Palo Alto, by Malcolm Harris Anne de Courcy Courses for Horses, by Nicholas Clee CONTRIBUTORS ARTS 32 Interview Nick Broomfield on the forgotten Rolling Stone Adam Sweeting 34 Classical music Il viaggio a Reims; Giulio Cesare; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Richard Bratby Theatre The Misandrist; Biscuits for Breakfast; Glory Ride Lloyd Evans 36 Pop The Vaccines; The Mary Wallopers Michael Hann 37 Exhibitions Gwen John; Berthe Morisot Laura Gascoigne 38 Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians Melanie McDonagh 39 Cinema Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Deborah Ross 40 Television Queen Cleopatra; Ten Pound Poms James Walton 41 Australian Arts Peter Craven LIFE 42 High life Taki Real life Melissa Kite 43 Claudine Toutoungi ‘Before there were words-’: a poem 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 45 Aussie life Simon Collins Language Kel Richards AND FINALLY . . . 46 Chess Luke McShane Competition Lucy Vickery 47 Crossword La Jerezana 48 No sacred cows Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 49 The Wiki Man Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 50 Drink Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth 51 How not to close the gap Failed ’solutions’ David Flint Elif Shafak, who writes about the creep of censorship on p5, is a novelist, essayist and political scientist. Declan Ryan is a poet and critic whose first collection, Crisis Actor, is published by Faber in July. He writes about Andrew Motion on p24. Oliver Soden, who writes about cats on p27, is the author of a new biography of Noël Coward as well as Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat, about Christopher Smart’s moggy. Anne de Courcy’s newest book is Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age. She writes about horse-racing on p30. the spectator australia | 20 may 2023 | www.spectator.com.au iii

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Gorgeous Georgians, p48

Feline fine, p27

Making a murderer, p37

BOOKS & ARTS

LIFE

BOOKS 22 Philip Hensher

Mother Tongue, by Jenni Nuttall 24 Declan Ryan

Sleeping on Islands, by Andrew Motion Graham Boynton

Winnie and Nelson, by Jonny Steinberg 25 William Leith

The Paper Man, by Billy O’Callaghan 26 Michael Arditti

The Writing School, by Miranda France Claire Booker

‘In the Martyred Intellectuals Cemetery, Dhaka’: a poem 27 Oliver Soden

The Age of Cats, by Jonathan Losos 28 Chloë Ashby

Monsters, by Claire Dederer Cindy Yu

Radical, by Xiaolu Guo 29 Nick Duerden

Same Old Girl, by Sylvia Patterson 30 David Honigmann

Palo Alto, by Malcolm Harris Anne de Courcy

Courses for Horses, by Nicholas Clee

CONTRIBUTORS

ARTS 32 Interview

Nick Broomfield on the forgotten Rolling Stone Adam Sweeting 34 Classical music

Il viaggio a Reims; Giulio Cesare; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Richard Bratby Theatre

The Misandrist; Biscuits for Breakfast; Glory Ride Lloyd Evans 36 Pop

The Vaccines; The Mary Wallopers Michael Hann 37 Exhibitions

Gwen John; Berthe Morisot Laura Gascoigne 38 Style & Society:

Dressing the Georgians Melanie McDonagh 39 Cinema

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Deborah Ross 40 Television

Queen Cleopatra; Ten Pound Poms James Walton 41 Australian Arts

Peter Craven

LIFE 42 High life Taki

Real life Melissa Kite 43 Claudine Toutoungi

‘Before there were words-’: a poem 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 45 Aussie life Simon Collins

Language Kel Richards AND FINALLY . . . 46 Chess Luke McShane

Competition Lucy Vickery 47 Crossword La Jerezana 48 No sacred cows

Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 49 The Wiki Man

Rory Sutherland Your problems solved Mary Killen 50 Drink

Bruce Anderson Mind your language Dot Wordsworth 51 How not to close the gap

Failed ’solutions’ David Flint

Elif Shafak, who writes about the creep of censorship on p5, is a novelist, essayist and political scientist.

Declan Ryan is a poet and critic whose first collection, Crisis Actor, is published by Faber in July. He writes about Andrew Motion on p24.

Oliver Soden, who writes about cats on p27, is the author of a new biography of Noël Coward as well as Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat, about Christopher Smart’s moggy.

Anne de Courcy’s newest book is Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age. She writes about horse-racing on p30.

the spectator australia | 20 may 2023 | www.spectator.com.au iii

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