Women’s rights have become negotiable, while ideological affirmation has become absolute. What happened to human rights?

The final volume of the tetralogy sees the once glamorous literary couple now adrift in New York as the mood changes with ...

Andrew Leigh’s criticism of Pauline Hanson and One Nation is nothing new. Nor is his advocacy for immigration.

Gina Rinehart's $200 million for veteran housing puts the Labor government to shame. They have cash for everything except ...

One of the few acceptable ways to dismiss an audience as inadequate is to describe them as ‘ageing’ It is a general rule that ...

Victorian Liberal Leader Jess Wilson proposes 10 years in jail for vandals who attack Captain Cook statues and war memorials.

Sir Keir Starmer is now approaching a whole week with his head in the sand. One can imagine the plaintive ‘meep, meep’ noise ...

It would be easy to dismiss A Hard Day’s Night, the Beatles film made in 1964, as a throwaway period piece. The plot hurls ...

In 1951, when J.G. Ballard was 20, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman premiered in London. Directed by Albert Lewin ...

In 2005 Xandra Bingley published Bertie, May and Mrs Fish, an extraordinarily lively and enjoyable memoir of her childhood ...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s claim that fame is the ‘sum of all misunderstandings’ is certainly true of Franz Kafka, whose ...

The Turner Prize-winning sculptor Sir Antony Gormley, 75, has installed casts of himself from Crosby beach in Liverpool to ...