It has been convenient for renewable energy enthusiasts to blame nuclear energy policy for Peter Dutton’s demise.
Of course, this isn’t true.
Not only was the nuclear plan put forward daft, Dutton’s loss was seen coming long before it was introduced into the news cycle.
The Liberals never should have allowed a complex federal election defeat to turn ...
‘We need to get into bed and watch a really good Poirot,’ I said, for I had given him such a hard time I doubted anything else would fix it.
The builder boyfriend had cut down a tree I liked while he was working in the garden. This tree was no more than a fast-growing something or other and I’m not really a tree hugger. But I do get attached to certain ...
As seen in the New World
What are the vibes of Rupert Lowe? That’s the question on my mind as I arrive at his parliamentary office, and find the door ajar. The MP for Great Yarmouth is sitting on a quilted armchair, stock still and staring straight ahead.
‘Um? Hi? Rupert? It’s Claire Holden – you said to pop by at 1?’ Rupert jolts to life. ‘Thank you ...
Whisper it if you must, but it looks as if Gianni (‘Today I feel gay…’) Infantino might have got it right with Fifa’s jumbo-busting World Cup, all 48 teams, 104 games and 39 days of it. Just look at some of the results: forget the Norwegians ‘Viking row’, Messi’s relentless brilliance, magnificent Mbappé, even wise Emma Hayes and her kitchen ...
Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening when the prime minister presumptive sent a letter to Antonia Romeo, the Cabinet Secretary, requesting that she commence access talks with his team. Keir Starmer had already given permission for them to ...
I’m not really one for pining for the good ol’ days, when things were splendid and now, they’re not. Apart from the clear lack of nuance in this sort of stance, it generally doesn’t progress discussion in a useful way. Some things were better; plenty were worse than they are today.
But when it comes to universities and the university experience for ...
Thank heaven my husband doesn’t even pretend to like football. Indeed he emphasises his indifference by making ironic remarks like: ‘Poor old Ivory Coast was robbed.’
The World Cup has brought out the Babel in naming countries. Do we call them by the established English names or by what they call themselves? Ivory Coast, which has French as its ...
The word of the moment is undoubtedly ‘monocultural’. In her take-no-prisoners speech at the National Press Club Pauline Hanson said it was time to axe multiculturalism ‘We cannot be a multicultural society,’ she said. ‘We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.’ This triggered ...
Measuring tobacco consumption is dirty work, but somebody has to do it. The antiseptic image of the government statistician has been flushed away with a new method for establishing the prevalence of smoking. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has switched from relying on self-reported survey data to Wastewater-Based Epidemiology, a technique known in ...
Q. I work at a magazine and am occasionally (and perhaps with increasing frequency) sent articles that strike me as having been written by AI, or at least with significant help from AI. They are often almost too polished and are fluent but lack much personality. What is the best way to determine whether this might be the case without offending the ...
Andy Burnham has not yet entered No. 10, but the Conservatives and Reform are already preparing for the possibility of an early general election. Resources are being redeployed, attack lines sharpened and campaign plans drawn up for the aftermath of Labour’s coronation. Nigel Farage wants a snap showdown. Kemi Badenoch insists defence must be properly ...
It’s a bit odd in its way that a fair fraction of the more or less British theatre we watch comes to us via National Theatre Live or one of its subsidiaries. A few years ago – in 2018 – you might have seen Sophie Okonedo play Cleopatra to the Antony of Ralph Fiennes. Before that, there was a resoundingly grand production of Shaw’s Man and Superman ...
It has been convenient for renewable energy enthusiasts to blame nuclear energy policy for Peter Dutton’s demise.
Of course, this isn’t true.
Not only was the nuclear plan put forward daft, Dutton’s loss was seen coming long before it was introduced into the news cycle.
The Liberals never should have allowed a complex federal election defeat to turn ...
‘We need to get into bed and watch a really good Poirot,’ I said, for I had given him such a hard time I doubted anything else would fix it.
The builder boyfriend had cut down a tree I liked while he was working in the garden. This tree was no more than a fast-growing something or other and I’m not really a tree hugger. But I do get attached to certain ...
As seen in the New World
What are the vibes of Rupert Lowe? That’s the question on my mind as I arrive at his parliamentary office, and find the door ajar. The MP for Great Yarmouth is sitting on a quilted armchair, stock still and staring straight ahead.
‘Um? Hi? Rupert? It’s Claire Holden – you said to pop by at 1?’ Rupert jolts to life. ‘Thank you ...
Whisper it if you must, but it looks as if Gianni (‘Today I feel gay…’) Infantino might have got it right with Fifa’s jumbo-busting World Cup, all 48 teams, 104 games and 39 days of it. Just look at some of the results: forget the Norwegians ‘Viking row’, Messi’s relentless brilliance, magnificent Mbappé, even wise Emma Hayes and her kitchen ...
Power, when it is gained and lost, is transferred in stages: the actual, the visual and the constitutional. The latter took place on Tuesday evening when the prime minister presumptive sent a letter to Antonia Romeo, the Cabinet Secretary, requesting that she commence access talks with his team. Keir Starmer had already given permission for them to ...
I’m not really one for pining for the good ol’ days, when things were splendid and now, they’re not. Apart from the clear lack of nuance in this sort of stance, it generally doesn’t progress discussion in a useful way. Some things were better; plenty were worse than they are today.
But when it comes to universities and the university experience for ...
Thank heaven my husband doesn’t even pretend to like football. Indeed he emphasises his indifference by making ironic remarks like: ‘Poor old Ivory Coast was robbed.’
The World Cup has brought out the Babel in naming countries. Do we call them by the established English names or by what they call themselves? Ivory Coast, which has French as its ...
The word of the moment is undoubtedly ‘monocultural’. In her take-no-prisoners speech at the National Press Club Pauline Hanson said it was time to axe multiculturalism ‘We cannot be a multicultural society,’ she said. ‘We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.’ This triggered ...
Measuring tobacco consumption is dirty work, but somebody has to do it. The antiseptic image of the government statistician has been flushed away with a new method for establishing the prevalence of smoking. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has switched from relying on self-reported survey data to Wastewater-Based Epidemiology, a technique known in ...
Q. I work at a magazine and am occasionally (and perhaps with increasing frequency) sent articles that strike me as having been written by AI, or at least with significant help from AI. They are often almost too polished and are fluent but lack much personality. What is the best way to determine whether this might be the case without offending the ...
Andy Burnham has not yet entered No. 10, but the Conservatives and Reform are already preparing for the possibility of an early general election. Resources are being redeployed, attack lines sharpened and campaign plans drawn up for the aftermath of Labour’s coronation. Nigel Farage wants a snap showdown. Kemi Badenoch insists defence must be properly ...
It’s a bit odd in its way that a fair fraction of the more or less British theatre we watch comes to us via National Theatre Live or one of its subsidiaries. A few years ago – in 2018 – you might have seen Sophie Okonedo play Cleopatra to the Antony of Ralph Fiennes. Before that, there was a resoundingly grand production of Shaw’s Man and Superman ...
