CONTENT

Leading article Voice of hypocrites
Why you should vote No Subsidised apartheid is no solution Maurice Newman
More green fairy tales Hydrogen to the rescue Judith Sloan
Yes, the Voice is racist In conception, content and consequences Ramesh Thakur
Business/Robbery, etc Census facts unsettle the Voice fantasy Michael Baume
Rock of Ages Dinosaurs wake up to woke David Cohen
Principled Peter Not Peter Principle James Allan
Polly wants a crisis They’ve all gone crackers Rebecca Weisser
Voice of reason Voice of reason Eric Abetz
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Grey zone warfare, p24

THE WEEK

Leading article
Portrait of the Week
Diary Death by a thousand cuts Anthony Horowitz
Barometer Doomsday clock, HMRC fines, flu jabs
Rod Liddle When fantasy meets reality
Douglas Murray America and the racism lens
Ancient and modern The example of Cato
Mary Wakefield Why do police clump together?
Letters LGBT support, dog leads, stamps and jargon

Any other business Unilever and the question of purpose before profit Martin Vander Weyer

Muppet diplomacy, p25

Spring loaded

How will the Ukraine war end? Owen Matthews
John Levett ‘A Post-It Note’: a poem
All or nothing Ukraine will not accept compromise in any form Svitlana Morenets
Small isn’t beautiful The dangerous myth of degrowth Ross Clark
The battle for Asia Japan looks for anti-China allies Rana Mitter
Empire state of mind A debate about colonialism’s legacy Nigel Biggar and Matthew Parris
Dog days Don’t ban greyhound racing Neil Clark

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