Australia
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
Australia first
What are we supposed to fight for in the Pacific? Is it for Australia or for the sake of US pre-eminence?
Locked down under
Do Australia’s leaders really know what they’re doing?
It’s not Rooney, it’s you
When identity is the primary means of engagement with art, criticism is reduced to mud-slinging
Australia’s Covid crisis
Australia is still standing at the gates of hell, while the rest of the world has already been through it
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
The poverty of “Singapore-on-Thames”
Britain can take inspiration from other countries but it cannot merely imitate them
Latte populism
Nigel Farage wanders over to the wrong side of the tracks, clutching his coffee
Why civility matters, even when it’s hard
Swallowing our pride is better than political violence
The war of words over Estonia’s Soviet monuments
Despite three decades of independence, Estonia’s Soviet past is still a cause of division
Don’t blame “county lines” victims
Exploited children need protecting, not convicting
Cancel the train drivers
Brexiteers, transphobes, racists and right-wingers — but I repeat myself
Of course we need opera
Click-hungry editors should stop enabling philistinism
Medical science is oppressive
Illness and wellness are mere taxonomies of power
Lone danger
One certainly wouldn’t expect anything resembling loyalty from the wolves running “Theatreland”
So, farewell then Humza
One man was very impressed with Humza Yousaf’s resignation speech
