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The Spectator

16 March 2024 Aus

Sam’s own goal

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Leading article Australia

Sam’s own goal

‘WATCH UNDER!’ was the warning cry made famous by one of Australia’s original expat Aussies living in London, as he…

Australian Columnists

Brown Study

Brown study

I would be a poor columnist if I continued with my monk-like silence on the war in Gaza. It is…

Australian Features

Features Australia

Fed up and grumpy

Can we please stop talking about things that ain’t gonna happen

Features Australia

Kategate

Our faith in institutions was torpedoed by Covid-19

Features Australia

We need an Aussie Samizdat Prize

A questioning and sceptical press? Now there’s an idea

Books

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How ever did the inbred Habsburgs control their vast empire?

For centuries, a line of mentally retarded monarchs managed extraordinary feats of engineering across the world against all odds

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The dirty war of Sefton Delmer

Anything to break German morale was allowable in Delmer’s broadcasts from Wavendon Towers – which purported to come from a disgruntled character within Nazi Germany

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How much would your family stump up for your ransom?

Researching The Price of Life, Jenny Kleeman interviews Stephen Collet, who describes haggling for a year with the Somali pirates who kidnapped his sister in October 2009

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Work, walk, meditate: Practice, by Rosalind Brown, reviewed

An Oxford undergraduate makes a detailed plan for getting the most out of a quiet Sunday in January, but soon starts musing on what it feels like to be distracted

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Conning the booktrade connoisseurs

Fuelled by loathing and resentment, Thomas James Wise set about defrauding as many privileged bibliophiles as he could – only to be rumbled by two of their number

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You are what you don’t eat

In the past, the ability to preserve food depended largely on people’s means, making Eleanor Barnett’s history of food waste also a history of changing attitudes to poverty

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The end of days: It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over, by Anne de Marcken, reviewed

‘Don’t try to picture the apocalypse’, advises the novel’s unnamed zombie narrator. ‘Everything looks exactly the way you remembered it.’

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The stark horror of Barbara Comyns’s fiction was all too autobiographical

Comyns’s fans have long enjoyed the novels’ macabre details and black humour. Now Avril Horner reveals their disturbing sources

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A web of rivalries: The Extinction of Irena Rey, by Jennifer Croft, reviewed

Eight translators gather to work on a novel written by their heroine, Irena Rey. But when she goes missing in a nearby forest, relations between them begin to fray

Lead book review

The tyranny of 1970s self-help gurus

Clients pursuing ’true self’ were expected to wear identical clothes, shave their heads, self-flagellate and be ‘given hell’, while paying through the nose for it