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CONTENT i Leading articles Climate furphies Lunch with Toby Young iv A moveable centre The culture wars James Allan v There’s a faction too much friction Can Josh come back? Kevin Andrews vi I’ve been travelling in the car Excuses, excuses Judith Sloan vii Safety, justice & retribution The morality of the war against Hamas Declan Mansfield viii The ICC ’s legitimacy deficit Globalist order floundering Ramesh Thakur ix The trouble with human rights A change in the weather David Campbell x A triumph of hope over experience UN ceases to serve the interests of the West Maurice Newman xi EU climate knaves and follies No lessons for Chris Bowen Rebecca Weisser xii Books Bebop, swing and all that jazz David Cune Follow us on Twitter: @SpectatorOz Spectator Australia letters to the editor and enquiries: editor@spectator.com.au Covert capture, p16 THE WEEK 3 Leading article 4 Portrait of the Week 5 Diary Packing your bags in No. 10 George Osborne 6 Politics Labour’s Scottish resurgence Katy Balls 7 The Spectator’s Notes Rescind the shameful UK/US extradition treaty Charles Moore 11 Rod Liddle Why are we turning left while Europe goes right? 12 Ancient and Modern Revenge 15 Douglas Murray The trouble with calling everyone ‘far right’ 19 Mary Wakefield Infantilising history 22 Barometer Manifestos, European elections, veterans’ jobs and cold summers 23 Any other business The City should not kowtow to Shein Martin Vander Weyer The joy of six, p28 8 Macron’s gamble France’s snap election may not produce the desired result Jonathan Miller 9 John Greening ‘Stone’: a poem 10 Summer Notebook My great-uncle Conolly and a stolen camera in Deauville Alexander Armstrong 12 Local hero The return of Keith Vaz Natasha Feroze 14 The sociology trap Stay clear of this A-level Robert Adès 16 Subtle siege China’s Taiwan takeover Rana Mitter 18 History lessened Who decides how we see the past? Nigel Biggar 20 The new eugenics Picking a perfect child Louise Perry 21 Rebecca Watts ‘Multiverse Valentine’: a poem Cover by Morten Morland. Drawings by Nick Newman, Stokoe, Wilbur, Len, Paul Wood, Robert Thompson, Bernie, Grizelda, Kipper Williams, Matt Percival, Royston. Drawings by Michael Heath, Castro, John Broadley, RGJ, Mark Wood, Mike Stokoe, Nick Newman, Grizelda, K.J. Lamb, Wilbur, Robert Thompson, Kipper Williams. www.spectator.co.uk Rates for a basic annual subscription in the UK: £119; Europe: £195; Australia: AU$395.99; New Zealand: NZ$479.99; and AU$479.99 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, Email: wdelmont@spectator.co.uk. Spectator Australia Distribution enquiries Tel: +61 (0)8 9362 4134. Vol 355; no 10,216 © 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 the spectator australia | 15 june 2024 | www.spectator.com.au
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Soane rangers, p27 The right side of history, p19 BOOKS & ARTS BOOKS 24 Lucasta Miller Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, by Katherine Bucknell 26 Nick Macpherson Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment, by Tim Lankester Mike Jakeman The Racket, by Conor Niland 27 Tim Newark John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities, by Bruce Boucher 28 Leyla Sanai The Body in the Library, by Graham Coveney Christopher James ‘The Collector of Lawnmowers’: a poem Elizabeth Goldring Six Lives, by Charlotte Bolland 29 Stuart Kelly Nature’s Ghosts, by Sophie Yeo ARTS 32 Richard Bratby speaks to Cal McCrystal about his quest to make opera-goers laugh 34 Theatre Marie Curie: The Musical; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! Lloyd Evans 35 Television Putin v Greenpeace; The Truth vs. Alex Jones James Walton 36 The gamer Sam Leith Pop Beth Gibbons; The Zombies; St Vincent Michael Hann 37 Cinema Freud’s Last Session Deborah Ross 38 Exhibitions Discover Degas & Miss La La Laura Gascoigne 39 Classical music Benjamin Grosvenor at the Proms Damian Thompson Fight Me, by Austin Grossman 30 Marcus Nevitt The Secret Lecturer, by Anon Caspar Henderson CONTRIBUTORS 40 Dance Sarasota Ballet Rupert Christiansen 41 Australian Arts Peter Craven LIFE LIFE 42 Still life Catriona Olding 43 Real life Melissa Kite 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 45 Aussie Life John Coleman Language Kel Richards AND FINALLY . . . 46 Chess Luke McShane Competition Victoria Lane 47 Crossword 48 No sacred cows Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 49 Sport Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 50 Food Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth 51 Disastrous governments in Washington and Canberra Parties neutralise constitutional remedies David Flint Natasha Feroze, who writes about Keith Vaz’s unlikely comeback on p12, is The Spectator’s deputy broadcast editor. Louise Perry is the author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and host of the podcast Maiden Mother Matriarch. She explores the new eugenics on p20. Lucasta Miller discusses the life and art of Christopher Isherwood on p24. Her most recent book is Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph. Nick Macpherson is an ex-permanent secretary to the Treasury and the chairman of C. Hoare & Co. He welcomes an insider’s view of monetarism on p26. Elizabeth Goldring, who reassesses Henry VIII’s wives on p28, is a scholar of Renaissance portraiture and author of Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist. the spectator australia | 15 june 2024 | www.spectator.com.au iii

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Soane rangers, p27

The right side of history, p19

BOOKS & ARTS

BOOKS 24 Lucasta Miller

Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, by Katherine Bucknell 26 Nick Macpherson

Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment, by Tim Lankester Mike Jakeman

The Racket, by Conor Niland 27 Tim Newark

John Soane’s Cabinet of Curiosities, by Bruce Boucher 28 Leyla Sanai

The Body in the Library, by Graham Coveney Christopher James

‘The Collector of Lawnmowers’: a poem Elizabeth Goldring Six Lives, by Charlotte Bolland 29 Stuart Kelly

Nature’s Ghosts, by Sophie Yeo ARTS 32 Richard Bratby speaks to Cal McCrystal about his quest to make opera-goers laugh 34 Theatre Marie Curie: The Musical; Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder! Lloyd Evans 35 Television Putin v Greenpeace; The Truth vs. Alex Jones James Walton 36 The gamer Sam Leith Pop Beth Gibbons; The Zombies; St Vincent Michael Hann 37 Cinema Freud’s Last Session Deborah Ross 38 Exhibitions Discover Degas & Miss La La Laura Gascoigne 39 Classical music Benjamin Grosvenor at the Proms Damian Thompson

Fight Me, by Austin Grossman 30 Marcus Nevitt

The Secret Lecturer, by Anon Caspar Henderson

CONTRIBUTORS

40 Dance

Sarasota Ballet Rupert Christiansen 41 Australian Arts

Peter Craven

LIFE

LIFE 42 Still life Catriona Olding 43 Real life Melissa Kite 44 The turf Robin Oakley Bridge Janet de Botton 45 Aussie Life John Coleman

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

Competition Victoria Lane 47 Crossword 48 No sacred cows

Toby Young Battle for Britain Michael Heath 49 Sport

Roger Alton Your problems solved Mary Killen 50 Food

Tanya Gold Mind your language Dot Wordsworth 51 Disastrous governments in

Washington and Canberra Parties neutralise constitutional remedies David Flint

Natasha Feroze, who writes about Keith Vaz’s unlikely comeback on p12, is The Spectator’s deputy broadcast editor.

Louise Perry is the author of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution and host of the podcast Maiden Mother Matriarch. She explores the new eugenics on p20.

Lucasta Miller discusses the life and art of Christopher Isherwood on p24. Her most recent book is Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.

Nick Macpherson is an ex-permanent secretary to the Treasury and the chairman of C. Hoare & Co. He welcomes an insider’s view of monetarism on p26.

Elizabeth Goldring, who reassesses Henry VIII’s wives on p28, is a scholar of Renaissance portraiture and author of Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist.

the spectator australia | 15 june 2024 | www.spectator.com.au iii

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