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Jim Chalmers has reinvigorated the economic policy debate with all the talk now about his economic reform roundtable. Unfortunately, the biggest...
In the olden days, you could listen over and over again to your musical heroes doing their thing, yet go for years without hearing them speak. The...
A terrible tipping point in Gaza has been reached. The number of people admitted to hospital or dying from starvation has surged. The journalists’...
You may remember the first half of 2020, when, as light relief during the early stages of the pandemic, we could look towards the banks of...
It wasn’t just that a man got caught cheating on his wife. It was that he did it in public. With the whole stadium watching. With Chris Martin,...
Love or hate: that seems to be the lot of Black England footballers. Score and the nation adores you – you represent the best of British. Have a...
It’s what the extreme right of the Tory party wanted from Brexit: to tear down crucial public protections, including those that defend us from the...
Across parts of the country this week, nursery workers will don plastic aprons and gloves. With more than 500 confirmed cases of a life-threatening...
The way we use the internet in Australia is changing. Soon, it won’t just be social media platforms asking to verify your age. Come December, age...
Last week – just a few days after Stephen Colbert called out his parent company for paying Donald Trump millions of dollars – CBS canceled the Late...
If there was any doubt Sussan Ley faced an impossible challenge keeping the Coalition together, proof arrived before breakfast on Wednesday. Ley...
If you Google “What does Nick Cannon actually do?”, 17 professions, ranging from rapper to businessperson, pop up. Which is just a few more gigs...
“How the Democrats lost the working-class vote”, ran the headline on the New York Times’s front page on 6 January. According to the Times, the...
You have to feel for Hannah Ingram-Moore. One or two teensy little mistakes, like using the charity set up in your dad’s name – of which you were...
Last Thursday, when Stephen Colbert announced on air that CBS had decided to cancel The Late Show, its flagship late-night comedy program, after 33...
Until seven years ago, one of the key centres of American power in Europe was a few minutes’ walk from the consumer frenzy of Oxford Street in...
Just when we thought the US supreme court couldn’t sink any lower in bowing and scraping to Donald Trump, it issued a shocking order last week that...
Still-life paintings known as vanitas, popular in the 17th century, served as reminders of the transient nature of everything on earth, doomed to...
I’m writing this from Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, where I’ve just finished operating on another severely malnourished young teenager. A...
“Gerrymandering!” cry those on the right. But the government’s plan for voting reform, which will allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in the next...
Every few years, Australia resurrects the idea of lowering the voting age to 16 – usually prompted by a campaign or because some other country (with...
I attended an American writers’ conference in Texas, just before the world plunged into Covid-19 lockdowns. Between panels and networking, I spent...
By now we’ve all seen the video: a couple locked in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay concert. Within milliseconds, the woman turns her face and...
I am spending a lot of time at my late mother’s house, sorting things out, wondering why she had so much asafoetida and thinking about the past....
To win in 2028, Democrats need to win back a lot of working-class voters, including a lot of blue-collar Donald Trump voters. Doing so requires...
Donald Trump presents himself as a peerless president, an unrivaled negotiator, even a “genius”. So it’s a unique moment when he comes close – I...
I’m not a curtain-twitcher, OK? I’m just a little bit nosy and happen to procrastinate by staring out of the window. Inspiration rarely strikes...
In a bone dry summer, every drop of water counts. So, even though the rain is finally falling again now, it’s still hard to take it for granted, or...
Parents’ evening. Two words that many parents assume are a source of dread for teachers. But most will tell you this is a misconception. Why?...
You have to let politicians go on holiday, I guess. You have to accept the existence of world leaders with whose views you disagree, especially now...
A million petition signatures in 10 days? That should tell a government something: that a huge number of citizens aren’t happy with what it has...
“Technology happens because it is possible,” OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, told the New York Times in 2019, consciously paraphrasing Robert Oppenheimer,...
As parliament returns for the first time since the May election, talk is focused on productivity, disastrous childcare failures and how Australia...
By any measure, Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party is not in a good place. In the last few months alone, she has been told “her...
Soaring rates of diagnoses in various illnesses such as cancer and diabetes have stimulated a debate about whether medicine has an “overdiagnosis”...
France is skint, but the French are in denial. To judge by the howls of outrage from the left and the hard right of the French political spectrum,...
It was one of the rare sunny winter weekends in Melbourne when the air feels nice and warm. I had been avoiding my volleyball group’s calls for...
Liberal candidate Gisele Kapterian has appealed her narrow loss to Nicolette Boele in Bradfield to the court of disputed returns. According to...
There are so many things to despise about the new season of And Just Like That, the Sex and the City spin-off, that criticising it is like shooting...
Since Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign, the electoral theory of the American left has rested upon the idea that a sizable bloc of...
We’ve entered the era of the superhero movie as sermon. No longer content with saving the world, spandex saviors are now being used to explain,...
Mercury is in retrograde, if I can believe an unsolicited email trying to sell me psychic services. Maybe that’s why, according to a Dutch gossip...
A few months into an eagerly planned retirement, Martin described the transition as “a seismic shift”. “I thought I had it all figured out,”...