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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 Follow us on Twitter: @SpectatorOz Spectator Australia letters to the editor and enquiries: editor@spectator.com.au 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 Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, John Broadley, Robert Thompson, Mark Wood, Robert Thompson, Nick Newman, Wilbur, Robert Thompson, Birch, K.J. Lamb, Bernie, Grizelda, Paul Wood, Seize (Sarah Dudley), Ben Davis. www.spectator.co.uk Rates for a basic annual subscription in the UK: £119; Europe: £195; 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 PO Box 610, Kalamunda WA 6926, 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 354; no 10,199 © 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 17 2024 . . .
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Suite dreams, p12 All is vanity, p20 BOOKS & ARTS Mad, bad and dangerous to know, p18 LIFE BOOKS 23 Alexander Larman Byron, by Andrew Stauffer 25 Robert Adès On Giving Up, by Adam Phillips Simon Heffer Little Englanders, by Alwyn Turner 26 Emily Rhodes Wrong Norma, by Anne Carson 27 Stuart Jeffries The Dreadful History and Judgment of God on Thomas Müntzer, by Andrew Drummond Claudine Toutoungi ‘There is Room for Poetry’: a poem 29 Joanna Pocock Splinters, by Leslie Jamison 30 Ian Sansom Engineers of the Human Soul, by Simon Ings 31 D.J. Taylor Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux Julie Lumsden ‘Escape to the Country’: a poem CONTRIBUTORS ARTS 32 Yoel Noorali goes on a pilgrimage to hear an organ recital set to last 639 years 34 Pop Idles: Tangk; Katherine Priddy: The Pendulum Swing Graeme Thomson Exhibitions When Forms Come Alive Laura Gascoigne 36 Television One Day James Delingpole 37 Radio & podcasts The Gatekeepers; Law and Disorder Jenny McCartney 38 The listener Messiaen: Turangalia-Symphonie Damian Thompson Classical music Siegfried; The Handmaid’s Tale Richard Bratby 39 Cinema The Taste of Things Deborah Ross 40 Theatre The Hills of California; Wilko Lloyd Evans 41 Australian Arts Peter Craven LIFE 42 Charmed life Petronella Wyatt 43 Real life Melissa Kite 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Susanna Gross 45 Books The puppet masters Kel Richards AND FINALLY . . . 46 Chess Luke McShane Competition Lucy Vickery 47 Crossword Mr Magoo 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 Aux biens pensants Price gouging & bottomless bikinis David Flint Catriona Olding, who on p21 writes about how end-oflife care needs to change, is an artist and former nurse. Alexander Larman, who writes about Lord Byron on p23, is the literary editor of The Spectator World and the author of Byron’s Women. Robert Adès, who writes about Adam Phillips on p25, is assistant editor of The Collected Letters of D.W. Winnicott. Joanna Pocock is the author of Surrender and a visiting lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of the Arts. She reads Leslie Jamison on p29. Yoel Noorali, who visits Halberstadt Cathedral’s famous organ on p32, has written for Dispatches, Esquire and the FT. the spectator australia | 17 february 2024 | www.spectator.com.au iii

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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

Follow us on Twitter: @SpectatorOz

Spectator Australia letters to the editor and enquiries: editor@spectator.com.au

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

Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, John Broadley, Robert Thompson, Mark Wood, Robert Thompson, Nick Newman, Wilbur, Robert Thompson, Birch, K.J. Lamb, Bernie, Grizelda, Paul Wood, Seize (Sarah Dudley), Ben Davis. www.spectator.co.uk Rates for a basic annual subscription in the UK: £119; Europe: £195; 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 PO Box 610, Kalamunda WA 6926, 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 354; no 10,199 © 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

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