So when a new example of the genre (a dual biography by dual biographers, no less) sums up the story in six introductory words as “Mary wrote crime; George committed it” we have before us a highly ...

Donald Trump’s net job approval average in both the Real Clear Politics and FiveThirtyEight averages has fallen about seven points over the first month of his second term, leaving his approval rating ...

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An election had become necessary after a coalition government, led by a hapless Social Democrat, failed to agree on a major funding issue and collapsed. During a heated election campaign in which the ...

National affairs The ASX’s CHESS checkmate Helen Bird 29 August 2024 ASIC has accused Australia’s dominant stock exchange operator of false and misleading conduct. But does the ASX have a deeper ...

Across the Western world and aligned countries in Asia the question on many minds is: Are the Americans still the good guys? Especially after the shocks delivered by Donald Trump’s representatives at ...

Books & arts War of the worlds Hamish McDonald 12 September 2024 Silk Road sceptic William Dalrymple argues for the centrality of India in ancient times Books & arts Distant crimes, nearby ...

Three years into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, the global system we have known since 1945 is finished. As historian Philip Ther has argued, we find ourselves at the end of a “great ...