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AUSTRALIAN NOTES

The Green Dream fades • About bloody time

Licence to kill (businesses) • Nobody ever issued a social licence

Fagan’s shameful ruling • The Supreme Court’s decision is highly regrettable

Trump won’t lose • The midterms are no slam dunk for the Democrats

Keating’s monster • It’s time to ditch compulsory super and give Australians back their own wages

One Nation’s House of Cards • The grassroots party with no grassroots

Secret Harbour revolt • Rejecting the anti-Australia axis, Aussies say: take back our country

Ooshienomics • How Labor crashed the housing market... and more

True North

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

Delivery drivers • Can Reform make good on their promises?

Mabel After All

BAROMETER

For Starmer, it was the top job or nothing

Scorched earth • This has been a terrible year for farmers

Crowning glory • After Harald, what’s the future for Norway’s royal family?

Death cult • Suicide has become normalised

So much for the Middlesbrough reckoning

Fearless • Will the British government stand up for Imran Khan?

His Love

Natural disaster • Don’t blame China and climate change for the Himalayan flash flood

How confident is Andy Burnham really?

Civil war • Don’t mock etiquette guides

Why Middlesbrough should be UK City of Culture

The art of concealment • Anita Brookner was nothing like her forlorn heroines, Andy Miller learns – but is left scarcely the wiser

The death of old England

Whys and wherefores

Chinese puzzles

Enforced perfection

Pilgrim’s progress

Messing in banqueting halls

The more deceived

A shroud of lies

A model relationship • Anthony Rudolf posed for Paula Rego over the course of 26 years. He was also her constant companion and friend, writes Matthew Reisz

The truth is simple: she was a bore

A wizard of Oz

Arnold Rosé

Making waves

Rocking again

The buxom babes

Poetry in motion

The sexiest kind of rock star

New shoes

Best life

Real life

Dolce Vita

The Turf

Aussie life

Language

Grand Chess Tour Finals

Down the middle

2768: Overheads

What Zanzibar could teach the C of E about slavery

The Battle for Britain

Cycling is more dangerous than F1

Think of the children

A toast to the greatest oenophile

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Entitlement principles

Trilleros