“The whole issue is so complex. And there’s so many layers to it, because we’ve got serving police officers accepting money from a newspaper, people at the very top of the police being closely ...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another seems to take place in a continuous present, even though there is a sixteen-year gap between the opening scenes and the latter part of the film.

The Chinese-owned video platform has become the largest source of news for Australians under twenty-five. Now Donald Trump wants it run in America by the Murdochs and other friendly plutocrats ...

America’s domestic weaknesses only serve to convince China, America’s main rival, that the age of democracy is on the wane. Trump’s re-election in November 2024 constitutes a confirmation, if not an ...

When Russian drones entered Poland on the night of 9–10 September, I was across the border in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. As has happened so often since February 2022, sirens had warned of incoming ...

At the risk of oversimplification, there are two Jewish responses to the current devastation in Palestine: the tribal and the humanist. Sadly we have witnessed many cases of the first, an eagerness to ...

Francesca Wade’s elegant new biography, Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, is composed in two parts: the first, a relatively conventional biography in which the events of Stein’s life are interwoven with ...

Most Australians know comparatively little about their closest neighbour. While many of them would be able to rattle off the names of dozens of New Zealanders — sports people, politicians, actors, ...

Let me start with a couple of incidents that illustrate the great political puzzle we now face. Incident 1: On Thursday a number of tech billionaires had dinner with Donald Trump. They were ...

About a third of the way into John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book that sets Lennon and McCartney’s platonic love affair in the context of their lyrics, melodic lines and chord structures — ...

After a couple of weeks in Washington DC, my rueful report is that Trumpworld is even stranger close up. Arriving after the president ordered the army to take over the capital, we were met by the ...

Seventy-four years ago an outfit called Australian Public Opinion Polls conducted a Gallup survey about Australians’ attitudes to immigration. The headline in Melbourne’s Herald emphasised the ...