What do you most despise? (A Stoppard quote and 900 words of filler)

Spectator Australia · James Allan · Sunday 19 April 2026

What do you most despise? (A Stoppard quote and 900 words of filler)

James Allan leans on a Tom Stoppard anecdote to launch another round of cultural grievances in the Spectator Australia.

Allan's borrowed a dead playwright's parlour game to pad out another Easter weekend column. Stoppard could make despising things sound like Wilde at dinner. The Spectator's version reads like a bloke at the RSL telling you what's wrong with the country between pokies pulls.

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