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Jimbo’s road to Venezuela

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Premier Pete from central casting • The Malinauskas effect

My prediction? 18C will bite the dust • Every generation gets a constitutional case that captures the political mood of the day. This may be ours

In Canberra, consent not required • How our governments continually ignore us

How to succeed as a Covid expert • Questions need to be asked and answered

Is there a field the Libs didn’t abandon? • I have the receipts

ICAC - an unnecessary disaster • Meanwhile, Australians are losing their ancient right to jury trial

Luck of the Irish • Passport to the Old World

Nobody paid for this article • Can other news publications say the same?

The Secret Diary of Anthony Fauci (aged 85¾) • Where was an Australian Ron DeSantis when we needed him?

Cambridge has fallen

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY • Quentin Letts

‘The genuine progressive’ • Remembering Rod Liddle

London: A celebration

Good riddance, Rod • I, for one, won’t miss him

BAROMETER

Can I fucking swear yet?

Party animal • Rod Liddle, the SDP supporter

Farewell, my brave and brilliant friend

The fabulist • Why is Cambridge University so eager to believe Jason Arday?

At the Crease

State of the union • Gen Z has lost faith in marriage

Repeating the sins of the past

What’s so wrong about a ‘dementia tax’?

The robots are coming for make-believe

Overhyped and over-exposed: the fall of AI’s shooting star

Ottomans on the rampage • Justin Marozzi on the bloodstained end of the Byzantine empire

Itty-bitty delights

A sense of jeopardy

Seduced by theory

A journey through love and loss

A colossal failure

New designs for living

The thrill of the chase

Theft – or a gift to the world?

Armchair critiques

Bad blood

The write stuff • Ysenda Maxtone Graham celebrates the dying art of postcard-sending

Close encounters

Dream on

Idiot wind

Troubled waters

Oh, what a circus

The Italian job

An exercise in murder

Crazy golf

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Aussie life

Language

Dvorkovich’s endgame

Cringe benefits

2764: Placenames

The imperfect, inimitable Rod Liddle

The Battle for Britain

Infantino is just the tip of the iceberg

Myth the point

Airport brews

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Did someone say climate change?

Toss