Cancelling mad men
What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?
The role of prime minister from Gladstone to Johnson
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart on how the role of the Prime Minister has changed in the past 200 years
Quick, hide your Bibles!
Lois McLatchie on the Christian beliefs that are becoming Euro-crimes
Lockdown was a choice
Agree with the policy if you like, but you can’t argue Lockdown harms were caused by Covid
The masses might stone you
Canberra’s recognition of the People’s Republic of China in December 1972 and the subsequent establishment of diplomatic relations resulted in an agreement to permit the stationing of Australian correspondents in Peking (now Beijing). The following year, Paul Raffaele became the first Australian correspondent, and the first foreign broadcaster, accredited to Mao’s China
Blue bloods and brownshirts
The intricate relationship between German aristocrats and Nazi Germany
Rabbit, run
Patrick Galbraith enjoys a frustrating day with dog and gun
Hollywood’s suicidal mission
How Aperture 2025, the Academy’s new set of equality and diversity regulations, will ultimately stifle creativity
The bracing blast of a dissident
In his coverage of Northern Ireland in this memoir, Kevin Myers was unflinchingly critical of British ineptitude
And the band played on…
The appointment of a chief conductor little affects the general performance of an orchestra
Will the Chinese “decolonise” Hong Kong?
Will a newly assertive Beijing seek to “decolonise” Hong Kong of the last visible signs of its colonial past?