The Dabbawalas of India will be celebrating Charles’ coronation
Mumbai, India Weaving through the throng on a hot May afternoon, Kiran Gavande had a determined look on his face,…
Local elections 2023: Tories lose 1,000 councillors
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says his party is on track to win the next general election after the Tories…
How the ancient rites of the coronation survived
It is a cliché to say that Britain’s customs were invented by the Victorians. In the case of the coronation,…
Why Christianity is at the heart of the King’s coronation
When Charles is crowned King today, he will be following in a long tradition of Christian kingship. The existing coronation…
How Welsh nationalism shaped the King
Royal Mail needs a history lesson. In preparation for this weekend it has dedicated four special post-boxes emblazoned with a…
How ordinary Russians continue to resist Putin
Russia is gearing up for its annual festival of state-sponsored militarist kitsch that are the 9 May Victory Day celebrations,…
A King’s welcome
This magazine supports our constitutional monarchy and thus naturally delights in the spectacle of the coronation. Our constitutional monarchy, the…
Don’t mention the… detainees
Labor premiers refuse to raise serious human rights concerns with Beijing
Brown study
Here at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, it’s all go, go, go! We had scarcely finished this year’s festival when we…
Dragons, broomsticks and whatnot
It was saddening to hear of the death of the poet John Tranter the other week. For those of us…
Aussie life
The Melbourne Comedy Festival’s continuing refusal to apologise for not closing this year’s festival with a tribute to its co-founder…
Language
The word ‘gender’ has been part of the English language since at least 1390. It appears to have started at…
Crowning glory
What the world will see when Charles III is crowned is not just the rare spectacle of a monarchy that…
A tale of two appointments
When Boris Johnson appointed Simon Case to the Cabinet Office, he believed that the youngest cabinet secretary in a century…
What King Charles gets wrong
Marooned in London for a day between meetings, I walked for miles in an attempt to find something good to…
