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The Spectator

12 July 2025 Aus

Muzzle Tov

Free speech versus 18C

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Life

Aussie Life

Aussie life

If you want to get a rough idea of where Australians stand on a particular issue, commission a report by…

Aussie Life

Language

Is ‘de-escalate’ in the running to be the Word of the Year for 2025? Or (as seems more likely) the…

Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do we handle staying with friends with very different political views?

Q. We are going to stay with some old friends who we haven’t seen for a couple of years as…

The Wiki Man

Why driving at 80mph won’t save you time

The device you see on this page is called a ‘paceometer’ and was devised by behavioural scientists Eyal Peer and…

No sacred cows

My sober assessment of the fat jabs

It was my friend Alex who tipped me the wink. I bumped into him at a party earlier this year…

Mind your language

Are Reeves and Starmer really in ‘lockstep’?

‘She and I work together, we think together,’ said Sir Keir Starmer of Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.…

Drink

Wine to pass the cricket Test

What to drink while watching cricket? Beer or even Pimm’s for the village green, but I think that a Test…

Wild life

Are my cattle ready to compete?

Kenya My cattle sensei Mark revealed that my Boran bulls aren’t gaining enough masculine growth after weaning because they’re only…

Chess

UzChess Cup

The team of young talents from Uzbekistan, who sensationally won gold at the Chennai Olympiad in 2022, continue to develop…

Best life

My night at the Spectator summer party

The first rule of the summer party is do not hold your summer party on the same night as The…

Real life

Our B&B has found its niche

A rattling noise woke me in the dead of night and I fumbled my way into the dark corridor. It…

Competition

Spectator Competition: Between the lines

For Competition 3407 you were invited to write about a historical event euphemistic-ally. This challenge was a little vague; Private…

More from life

Salad cream is more than a poor man’s mayonnaise

Salad cream makes me feel oddly patriotic. It’s one of those products that is so distinctively British that it has…