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One Nation is officially the most successful conservative minor party following the recent election. For the first time, One ...
Forgetting the election result (if only that episode of political self-harm could be forgotten), how is Australia’s ...
In the early 1370s, Louis I of Anjou, the second son of the French king, commissioned a vast series of tapestries, now on ...
Charleston, South Carolina H.L. Mencken, long a hero of mine, wrote: ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know ...
Writing in a lesser organ, Matthew Parris wondered whether most ancient Greeks ‘really, sincerely, did believe in their ...
It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said that he would ‘rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston ...
T hree cheers for Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, a potential party leader, for speaking the plain truth on the ABC’s Four Corners.
The structure of Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet would never exist in the business world. It is absurd to think that government ...
I’ll never insult or belittle someone who votes Reform,” Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal, tells me. “We need to ...
In the excellent BBC comedy series W1A, which poked a harsher degree of fun at its makers than many would have believed ...
During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a ...
Geoff Dyer, eh? Geoff Bloody Dyer – without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.’s most successful, intellectually playful and ...