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Immortal Guard: Long live the Shah
The Achaemenid Immortals were the elite and permanent guard of the Achaemenid Empire a force that served both as the…
Political leaders plagued by internal failures
Over the last two years, leadership has been one of the most commonly used words in political discussions. Whether it’s…
Venezuela celebrates, Iran’s pillars crumble
Anyone with moral clarity knows leaders like Nicolás Maduro must be removed
Sam Groth: the latest casualty of a toxic party?
Are you okay, Victoria? Those of us watching the Liberal Party drama from slightly saner states glance at Victorian headlines…
International law and the attempt to cage the beast
This is not law. It is diplomacy with paperwork...
Operation Enduring Farage
Why an American liberation of Britain would be greeted with tea, scones, and bunting
The origin of Islamic militancy
What is it about Islam that motivates so many shocking attacks on Jews, Christians, and the Western world? Following the…
The gentleman chef Anton Mosimann’s delicious collection
Anton Mosimann unlocks his safe, delicately removing the oldest known cookbook, handwritten on velum in 1516 for the Vatican’s library.…
Venezuela is finally free
A crisis that began when I was still living in Latin America a quarter of a century ago has, at…
Woke robbed the West of its artistic soul
Stranger Things reaffirms modern showrunners can’t stick the landing
Khamenei’s banners are burning in Tehran
The people of Iran have been trying to free themselves from the oppressive Islamic Republic for decades. Tonight, hundreds of…
President Maduro of Venezuela captured by US
‘The tyrant is gone. He will now – finally – face justice.’
Decline and ‘fall’ of a failed Prime Minister
The fear of the Jewish community was palpable in the lead-up to Bondi
New York is now the most idiotic city in the world
The newly elected mayor of the once-great metropolis of New York City has used his maiden speech to declare that…
Can Iran be saved from the Islamic Republic?
Traders and merchants in Tehran closed their shops in protest and demonstrated against the deteriorating economy and the plunging Iranian…
The worst-case scenario for the ordinary man in 2026
Charles Dickens opened his timeless novel, set in the era of the French Revolution, with a paradox that echoes through…
Why a Royal Commission will fail
In the wake of the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, as victims’ families and Jewish organisations demand assurances from the Australian…
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Conservative leaders need to listen more closely to Shakespeare
A constitution to rule them all
How much power is concentrated in Pauline’s hands?
The lessons our schools need to teach
Today’s students are woefully ignorant of how our government works
