CONTENT
i Leading article
Bowen’s climate idiocy iv Brown Study
Lurching Neil Brown v At war with Defence
Minister and department Marles apart Kevin Andrews vi The sinister Steyn verdict
The Capitol will not be mocked Kerry Wakefield vii US justice stinks
The Steyn and Trump affairs James Allan viii When Tucker met Putin
Dictatorship of the woke bureaucrats Christopher Jolliffe ix Milei slays Davos
Collectivists vs individualists David Pearl x Blame Mr Bean
EV sales falling flat. Now wonder Rebecca Weisser xi IR in the gutter
The disastrous consequences of Burke’s workplace ‘reforms’ Judith Sloan xii Killing productivity
Central bankers wrong on interest rates Michael Collins
Dan erous liaisons, 42
THE WEEK
3 Leading article 4 Portrait of the Week 5 Diary Humphries vs Lennon
Harry Mount 8 Ancient and modern Acting up 9 Rod Liddle Labour still has an anti-Semitism problem 13 Douglas Murray The House of Lords is a house of nobodies 15 Barometer Octogenarian leaders,
‘diverse’ armies and assisted suicide 18 Lionel Shriver
Are bad parents criminals? 20 Lara Prendergast
My top beauty tips for blokes 22 Any other business
Year of the falling Dragon? Martin Vander Weyer
Matthew Parris is away
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Great Dame, 5
6 Is Nato ready?
A report from Estonia’s front line Max Jeffery 7 John Levett
‘A stone’s thrown’: a poem 8 Gold standard
My father, the famous criminal G.V. Chappell 10 Losing battle
The British Army is unfit for combat Eliot Wilson 12 Low spirits
Checking in to a haunted hotel Sean Thomas 14 ‘A majority of Anglicans want to see a more inclusive church ’ An interview with Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford Theo Hobson 16 Off grid
Labour will rue its decarbonisation pledge Ross Clark 19 Letter from Kyiv
Ukrainians’ spirits remain unbroken Owen Matthews 21 Last rights
We should all be able to choose a better death Catriona Olding
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