Robert Whelan
Tragic hero of Drury Lane
This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight
Academia must not dissolve scholarship into politics
Scholarly rigour must be put above ideological virtue signalling
A beguiling star who loved melodrama
Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
We should have the freedom to criticise Islam
Religious freedom entails the right to criticise a belief system as well as to adhere to it
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
Israel and the danger of perpetual war
Friends of Israel should be alarmed about the prospect of fighting on numerous fronts
Humble pie?
Ric Holden is painfully aware that he is only just Holden on to his seat
Kemi Badenoch won’t save the Conservatives
Her radical credentials are based on pure PR
The melting pot that boiled over
Beirut was once a playground for the rich and famous, but now seemingly destined for decline
