So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory words as “Mary wrote crime; George committed it” we have before us a highly ...

Donald Trump’s net job approval average in both the Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight averages has fallen about seven points over the first month of his second term, leaving his approval rating ...

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An election had become necessary after a coalition government, led by a hapless Social Democrat, failed to agree on a major funding issue and collapsed. During a heated election campaign in which the ...

National affairs No longer fit for purpose Paddy Gourley 30 August 2024 It’s time for a reborn immigration department outside Canberra’s bulging home affairs portfolio ...

Across the Western world and aligned countries in Asia the question on many minds is: Are the Americans still the good guys? Especially after the shocks delivered by Donald Trump’s representatives at ...

Books & arts War of the worlds Hamish McDonald 12 September 2024 Silk Road sceptic William Dalrymple argues for the centrality of India in ancient times Books & arts Distant crimes, nearby ...

Three years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the global system we have known since 1945 is finished. As historian Philip Ther has argued, we find ourselves at the end of a “great ...

Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist is an over-long epic about the making of a huge and, so far as we can tell, ugly building (though several characters insist it is “beautiful”). The building holds a secret ...

In his enveloping, tactile Grand Tour (currently in cinemas), Portuguese director Miguel Gomes takes us on a hectic yet leisurely adventure in storytelling that blurs boundaries between past and ...

In her analysis of the 2022 election, the fourth consecutive win for Orbán’s Fidesz party, Scheppele shows how Hungarian ...

The AfD’s strength is in itself cause for concern, although the prospect of a government that includes the far right (as in ...