Back in March, just two months into Donald Trump’s second presidential term, I wrote about the possible impact of Trump’s policies on Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme,...
Peter Dutton is long gone, but the rabid Coalition base isn’t short of potential saviour-leaders who — once they get a chance, equipped with conviction and...
A whole lot of people think that AI is going to eliminate many human jobs. Perhaps no one is more confident of this prediction than the...
China and the United States are typically seen as opposites, their points of conflict accentuated under recent leaderships by “wolf warrior” rhetoric, trade disputes or military...
Reading Donald Trump’s twenty-point Gaza peace plan is like venturing into the world of the eccentric early-twentieth-century British cartoonist, Heath Robinson, who unwittingly lent his name...
Sometime in 2017 a group of friends in Oxford, all with backgrounds in South Asia, were reflecting on their families’ memories of “the partition” and the...
I’m midway through a bizarre project. I’m trying to find out who my father was. I’m not adopted or a foundling. I lived with my father...
Labour was the first and greatest of modern social movements, revolutionary in its effects even when it pursued mere reformism, a melodrama of heroes and villains...
Economic reality has a habit of throwing you curveballs — events you didn’t anticipate when making your predictions. Specifically, most economists, myself included, expected tariffs to...
Elizabeth Harrower (1928–2020) was known for a long time as a writer who didn’t write. Before the age of forty she had produced all five of...