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Fit to be PM?

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CONTRIBUTORS

BROWN STUDY

Teals should be terrified • The tricky terrain of taxing trusts

A Beech of judicial etiquette • Labor’s shameful judge

The Albo Manifesto • Pinnochio would be impressed

Menzies would not have built One Nation • On processes over passion

Disunited Kingdom • Would England do better without Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

NZ’s latest party hates Israel • Why should taxpayers fund this obscenity?

Justice miscarried • Facts should trump fiction

Put out more flags • One Nation’s newest MP is a man for all parties

Moment of truth

PORTRAIT OF THE WEEK

DIARY

How Lowe can they go? • The battle between Restore and Reform

There is Within Us Eternal Spring

Coming clean • The agony of decluttering my late husband’s home

Kemi has given me hope

Poking the bear • Russia won’t give up Armenia without a fight

Neo con • Don’t blame neoliberalism for Britain’s woes

When all racist murders are not equal

Fake believe • Trump and Putin have become victims of their own conspiracy theories

Cave men

Snap shut • The real ‘Thucydides Trap’ Beijing and Washington must avoid

Leap of faith • Why I take frog poison

Who fancies a pint in Reeves’s ideal pub?

LETTER FROM HAVANA

Manifold’s sharp exit from BP is a symptom of deeper trouble

The full Monty • Allan Mallinson traces the career of the brave showman from national hero to national liability

Pathways to recovery

Under siege

A frisson of tension in the air

Pockets of sedition

The bedrock of opinion

I Robot?

Panic stations

Adventures in wonderland

An ill wind

Irish whimsy

Blackmail, gangsters and orgies

Jaded youth

Days

Reversals of fortune • Robin Simon on the art of resurrecting forgotten artists

Going for gold

Living the high life

Here be monsters

Olden but golden

007: First Light

On the money

Such stuff as dreams are made on

Tequila

No life

Real life

Aussie life

Language

Breathtaking chess

All kicking off

2755: Über cero

Nigel, me and Desert Island Discs

The Battle for Britain

Variety is the spice of evolutionary life

DEAR MARY YOUR PROBLEMS SOLVED

Politicians and the hard stuff

Facepalm

Time to go, Albo • Budget hides $4 trillion of debt as billions shovelled to Beijing