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The good news that has just come to hand is that the federal government has decided to keep as a…

The slain leader was a true friend of Australia and the West

Recognition of Malcolm Fraser’s achievements is long overdue

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Bowen and Burke could make life difficult for Labor

Xi’s war on Covid is killing China’s economy

The road to socialism is paved with public service platitudes

Democrats don’t want to move to the middle ground on abortion

So many Voices, so little to show for them

Australia has been betrayed by its political class

Home remedies are good for us — and the NHS

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How humans may populate the universe in the billions of years ahead

The problem with ‘apostrophe laws’

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Liz Truss on Brexit, internet censorship — and what she’d do in No. 10

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The word ‘colony’ meets with a sharp intake of breath these days, but ‘province’ raises no eyebrows. How very odd.…

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‘Black swan’ theory, developed by the writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb, refers to unexpected events that have extreme consequences but are…

I think by now it’s becoming horribly apparent to parents of every political persuasion that we can’t sit out the…

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Scandal is such a wonderful driver of human emotions. Just think of the number of things you get to feel…

In Jon Ransom’s debut novel, water seeps into the crevices between waking and dreaming, flooding the narrator Joe’s consciousness. Set…

Farming threaded its way through the fields, mud, hedgerows and lifeblood of the people who made up Sarah Langford’s childhood.…

Do not be deterred, but do be warned. Rogues isn’t a book book: it’s a kind of high-end sizzle reel,…

Isn’t it irritating when your ancestral manuscript collection gets in the way of your ping-pong tournament? That was Colonel Butler-Bowden’s…

We live in discombobulating times, economically speaking. We know we’re descending into the highest inflation for half a century and…

It may not be the grandest of the world’s waterways – the Nile and Amazon are ten times its length…

Take the Red Line north, heading out of St Petersburg, and you’ll eventually reach Courage Square on the city’s outskirts…

Big tech might tell us it’s what’s coming next but as yet there’s no real use for it, says James Ball

Just the other day came the announcement that a new production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat was to…

You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’…

Rather than tearing statues down, Hew Locke believes in reworking them to highlight their place in our imperial history. Stuart Jeffries speaks to him

Last week I heard the actor Julian Sands give a virtuoso performance of work by Percy Bysshe Shelley to mark…

The Southbury Child is a comedy drama set in east Devon featuring a distressed vicar, Fr David, with a complex…

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One legacy of lockdown in the classical music world has been the sheer length of the 21-22 season. In a…

Grizzled police officers of the old school should probably avoid Channel 4’s Night Coppers for reasons of blood pressure. Like…

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Here is a delightful phrase which may well become a familiar idiom in English language: ‘weather dependent economy’. I encountered…

What separates this year’s ‘empty seats on centre court’ scandal from every other year’s ‘empty seats on centre court’ scandal?…

As he grouted the last tile, five years after the bathroom was finished, I knew the game was up. ‘I…

Q. I have found parties frustrating this month because they have been too crowded. Is there a polite way to…

When the Tory party set itself on fire last week a restaurateur told me: ‘Don’t worry, Tanya, we’ll still be…

There was a word I didn’t understand in Boris Johnson’s resignation speech (in which he did not resign). He spoke…

Five unclued lights are descriptions of another (four words), from another, by another (two words). Elsewhere, ignore one accent.  …

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The unclued entry RECYCLING thematically links six unclued cyclic non-word permutations that appear in the systematic order GCYCLIN, NGCYCLI, INGCYCL,…

In Competition No. 3257, you were invited to summarise a film in limerick form. A nod to Ezra Haber Glenn,…

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The ‘English chess explosion’ that began in the 1970s produced a bumper crop of grandmasters, which meant that by the…

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My days pass largely in a state of inanition. The fit and able-bodied express their sympathy, claiming it’s much the…

The return to pre-Covid normality has been slow and a bit dispiriting. Attendance at the popular English tournaments has been…