Australia
A kangaroo court
Guilt by association grips Australia
The Crown down under
Is Australia still a sceptered isle?
British past or American future?
Aussies have some soul-searching to do this Jubilee
Singing Shane’s praises
A man with an appetite for victory, and everything else too
Australia is not a goldmine
Trade with Australia is good for Britain, but it can’t replace Europe
The Critic Books Podcast: Devotion
A story of love in nineteenth century Prussia and Australia
Free trade is worth billions
Ministers need to send Brexit modelers back to re-do their sums
Safety in genders
Tasmania has banned gay spaces for discriminating against “gender identity”
Good news clickbait
Cleo Smith has been found, just rejoice at that news
Does AUKUS change Australia’s role in the Pacific?
Professor Jeremy Black talks to Graham Stewart about the past and present of Australia’s role in the western alliance
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
In defence of the stiff upper lip
Emotional reserve in public does not mean neglecting our interior lives, it means being serious about them
The end of art critics
The critics who are now lackeys of the art world
Why was a foreign rapist in Britain?
The sad background to a horrific case
Gyles Brandreth’s bon mots
An obsession with linguistic and historical marginalia has infected British culture
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
Why won’t Chris Whitty go away?
He lingers on — a slap-headed Rasputin whispering terrible ideas into the ears of our leaders
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
The opportunism of anti-police activists
Continued agitation around the death of Chris Kaba is inexcusable
