It is a Friday afternoon in the office. About 3.45pm and productivity is swiftly on the downward trend for the end of the ...

Forgetting the election result (if only that episode of political self-harm could be forgotten), how is Australia’s ...

One Nation is officially the most successful conservative minor party following the recent election. For the first time, One ...

This evening, the AEC has completed the counts as far as seat allocations go for Western Australia and Queensland. It comes with the surprise that One Nation has picked up two seats.

A recent American study, called ‘They Don’t Read Very Well’, analyses the reading comprehension abilities of English ...

Charleston, South Carolina H.L. Mencken, long a hero of mine, wrote: ‘Democracy is the theory that the common people know ...

In the early 1370s, Louis I of Anjou, the second son of the French king, commissioned a vast series of tapestries, now on ...

Writing in a lesser organ, Matthew Parris wondered whether most ancient Greeks ‘really, sincerely, did believe in their ...

It is 60 years since William F. Buckley said that he would ‘rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston ...

Geoff Dyer, eh? Geoff Bloody Dyer – without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.’s most successful, intellectually playful and ...

Those who have read Madeleine Thien’s bestselling Do Not Say We Have Nothing will recognise The Book of Records as being the ...

In 1941, as it entered the second world war, the US Army barely bested Bulgaria’s for size and combat readiness. Nor did US ...