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This evening, the AEC has completed the counts as far as seat allocations go for Western Australia and Queensland. It comes with the surprise that One Nation has picked up two seats.
In the early 1370s, Louis I of Anjou, the second son of the French king, commissioned a vast series of tapestries, now on ...
Geoff Dyer, eh? Geoff Bloody Dyer – without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.’s most successful, intellectually playful and ...
Louis-Sébastien Mercier, dramatist and author of the early science fiction novel L’an 2440, claimed that only a small ...
Dame Muriel Spark, then one of Britain’s most distinguished living writers, was interviewed for a BBC documentary. During ...
There are three parties when it comes to global warming. First, the hard right, which says it isn’t happening, and even if it ...
In 1941, as it entered the second world war, the US Army barely bested Bulgaria’s for size and combat readiness. Nor did US ...
Those who have read Madeleine Thien’s bestselling Do Not Say We Have Nothing will recognise The Book of Records as being the ...
The collector, art historian and critic Douglas Cooper (1911-84) relished conflict. He was a formidable man, loud in speech ...
The narratives we tell ourselves about the past are hardly set in stone. It’s in this ambiguity where Tancredi Di… ...
The narratives we tell ourselves about the past are hardly set in stone. It’s in this ambiguity where Tancredi Di Carcaci ...
During the last Conservative government, it was common to hear the refrain that the prime minister of the day was waging a ...