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By-election results make poor predictors. The government of the day can often count on a swing against it by irritated voters keen to remind it […]

Being sufficiently able at your job is a good thing. But beware the trappings of zeal. When it comes to the business of retaining an […]

It has been a relationship characterised by bitterness and misunderstanding. It began with a poorly negotiated agreement – poor, that is, from the European Union […]

British justice is a splendidly odd animal. Its miscarriage is one of those wonders of institutional repetition. When textbooks are written on the subject, one […]

By Denis Bright   Cut off from overseas recreational travel destinations beyond the Trans-Tasman travel bubble, Australians are still left with a range of more localized […]

Criticism of Israel’s policies towards Palestinians has always induced a defensive rage from its defenders and advocates. A Threshold Crossed, a report by Human Rights […]

Attributing names to the brutal acts humans are capable of inflicting upon each other is never without problems. There are gradations of terror, hierarchies of […]

The very word is chilling, but has become normalised political currency in Denmark. Since 2010, the Danish government has resorted to generating “ghetto lists” marking […]

War in the Middle East has often been referred to as Australia’s longest war. But is this genuinely the truth? My whole life I have […]

The Five Eyes arrangement between the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has always resembled a segregated, clandestine club. Focused on the […]

There are a few things I’ve been meaning to say, and now is as good a time as any. Donations I don’t always get the […]

Suffocating the grassroots. Mocking the working-class origins of the game. World football, and primarily European club football, has long done away with loyalties in favour […]

There was a time when it seemed Papua New Guinea had managed to dodge a bullet. Instances of SARS-CoV-2 were minimal, along with its disease, […]

It had to be symbolic, and was represented as such. Forces of the United States will be leaving Afghanistan on September 11 after two decades […]

By Brian Morris   With the rise of Pentecostal and charismatic megachurches there’s a rational concern that a ‘literal’ belief in the Bible has led to […]