There is also a subtle element of comedy in how the film depicts them, with neither woman proving to be exactly what she may ...

There was a time when the leadership of the Liberal opposition swung like a pendulum. Back and forth, left to right, right to left. In the 1980s, against the Hawke government, we had Andrew Peacock ...

When I read that Harrods, “the world’s leading luxury department store,” sells a 250-gram jar of Western Australian honey for £750 (A$1430), I nearly choked on my muesli. At about $40 per teaspoon ...

While five great powers — Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal — were forging maritime empires between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, a sixth, Russia, was carving out an ...

One Sunday morning nearly four years ago Kevin McCann was surprised to learn that an organisation he chaired was being hounded in the News Corp tabloids for being in “China’s grip” and “lobbying ...

The story of working-class chancers who parlay a great talent into fame and fortune is a well-thumbed parable of English popular culture. Maybe because it’s so rare. Charles Dickens started his ...

“I remember the days when you could go into government meetings… and representatives from the US Trade Representative Office would say ‘We can’t do that because it would violate our international ...

Ever since my review copy of Nathan Thrall’s A Day in the Life of Abed Salama lobbed onto my doorstep, I’ve been thinking of synchronicity, that twentieth-century psychoanalyst’s term for the uncanny ...

So, Anzac Day is with us once again. As it is a day for remembering, I began drafting this piece with the thought that it is now ten years since the beginning of the much-anticipated centenary of ...

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