Why is the New Scientist defending cannibalism?
Most law students in the English-speaking world will have come across R v Dudley and Stephens, from 1884, which established…
Navalny showed there is a better Russia
Everything was angular about him: his brilliant smile, the choppy movements of his hands as he spoke, the western mannerisms he had…
Dartmoor’s mass trespass isn’t what it seems
The largest mass trespass in a generation will take place in Devon today. Hundreds of protesters belonging to the pressure-group…
Watchdog consumers
The news that Brad Banducci is stepping down as CEO of supermarket giant Woolworths is to be warmly welcomed. This…
An all-but-lost treasure
Tennessee Williams is still looking like one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century and the plays he wrote…
Aussie life
Surprisingly, perhaps, it was only 20 years after the Union flag was first raised in Sydney Cove that white Australians…
Language
Is the great old Aussie word ‘bloke’ an offensive word? The army thinks it is. Writing in the Daily Telegraph…
