Australians are not asking whether statues should disappear from a public square. They are asking whether they can afford ...

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Pauline Hanson offers to work with Angus Taylor to keep ISIS fighters from returning to Australia after more are found alive ...

Labour’s strange fixation on Israel appears increasingly driven by the need to satisfy a political constituency that treats ...

Have you heard of Jameela Jamil? No, me neither, though I’m told she’s worryingly influential. This British-born ‘actress, ...

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I had not thought much about spiders until I read Maria Tatar’s Arachnomania; now I can think of little else. I even watched ...

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Early in her biography, Catharine Edwards understates the obvious: ‘False modesty was never Cicero’s problem.’ What she does ...

In June 1948, the writer Osamu Dazai and his last love, Tomie Yamazaki, drowned themselves in the Tamagawa Aqueduct ...

The strange thing about our new Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s professed wish to return to the 1970s, to a prelapsarian age ...