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The Spectator

30 March 2024 Aus

In defence of forgiveness

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Hamas resurrected?

The duplicity and the cynicism of the Biden administration knows no bounds. By choosing to abstain from a Chinese/Russian-sponsored UN…

Australian Columnists

Brown Study

Brown study

I hope you will allow me, just for this week, to mention an essentially personal matter. On 19 March, I…

Australian Features

Features Australia

War stories

Electric vehicles and apartment buildings

Features Australia

Do as we say, not as we do

China’s sweetest victory with Paul Keating

Features Australia

Crypto is useless money

Even central bank digital currency can’t go mainstream

Features Australia

Catherine and cancer

What’s behind the frightening increase?

Features Australia

Netanyahu’s dilemma

Proportional response warfare does not apply

Features Australia

Who’s happy now?

No wonder our young are so miserable

Features Australia

Leadership beyond politics

On Kate, cancer and the constitution

Features

Features

How Ukraine plans to revive its birth rate

In my village in Ukraine, there aren’t many families left intact. The funerals of those who have been killed in…

Features

Why I’m fighting to ban smartphones for children

I am not often lost for words, but the five middle-aged homeless men who spoke at the Big Issue celebration…

Features

In defence of forgiveness

It is often the small constants in the culture that give the game away. Much of the news today is…

Features

The utter horror of UHT milk

On a trip to Italy via Paris last month, my travelling companion and I went to the Gare de Lyon…

Books

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Stories of the Sussex Downs

Focusing on a 20-mile square of West Sussex, Alexandra Harris explores its rich history, from the wreck of a Viking longboat to a refuge for French Resistance agents

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The horrors of the Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd reinforces Churchill’s sentiment that the first world war in the East was ‘one of the most frightful misfortunes to befall mankind’

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Why today’s youth is so anxious and judgmental

In a well-evidenced diatribe, Jonathan Haidt accuses the creators of smartphone culture of rewiring childhood and changing human development on an unimaginable scale

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On the road with Danny Lyon

The celebrated photojournalist describes his peripatetic youth recording revolution in Haiti, hunger and homelessness in Mexico and the civil rights movement in the US

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Caught in a Venus flytrap: Red Pyramid, by Vladimir Sorokin, reviewed

Sorokin’s satirical stories are not for the fainthearted, but there are few more dedicated critics of Russia's infinite bureaucracy writing fiction today

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Resolute, dignified and intelligent: Elizabeth II inspired loyalty from the start

Alexander Larman describes how, from 1945 onwards, the House of Windsor set about rebranding itself after a decade of crisis both internal and external

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The world’s largest flower is also its ugliest

Known as ‘corpse flower’, the sinister Rafflesia resembles slabs of bloody, white-flecked meat, emits the scent of rotting flesh and eventually subsides into a mass of black slime

Lead book review

How country living changed the lives of three remarkable women writers

Harriet Baker describes how Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found new forms of peace and creativity away from the stifling capital