Well, well, well. It seems Kamala Harris has finished licking her wounds after her defeat in last year’s presidential race and she, er, wants to do it all over again. Speaking to the BBC, the Democrat told Laura Kuenssberg that she might run again for the White House: ‘I am not done.’ Whether the polls are quite as optimistic about her chances is ...
The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed its shape. What began as a brutal confrontation has now hardened into a political and geographic experiment, one whose contours may define the region’s next decade. Beneath the surface of ceasefires and reconstruction plans lies a deeper transformation: the reappearance of the Palestinian question, after ...
The Booker Foundation announced on Friday what it called its most ambitious project in twenty years: the launch of a Children’s Booker Prize. Well, heavens: what am I to do with that? As a columnist, most of my business is moaning and carping. Happiness, as it is said, writes white, and the default position of the comment hack in search of a subject is ...
The wall-to-wall chorus of condemnation of Sarah Pochin’s remarks last week about woke advertising has been hysterical even by the left’s standards. ‘Sarah Pochin’s comments were a disgrace’, fulminated Labour’s X account, ‘and Nigel Farage’s silence is deafening.’ David Lammy said the remarks were ‘mean, nasty and racist’ and wants her sacked. Health ...
Query: what kind of electoral landslide is it when most of the electorate doesn’t turn up? Not quite a landslide, I’d say – more the shifting of shingle. To put it another way, in the Irish presidential election, fewer than half of voters turned out (45.8 per cent). Three in four electors did not vote for Catherine Connolly, the United Left candidate. ...
In the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean lies a vast underwater volcanic ridge known as the Kerguelen Plateau. At its centre sits Australia’s most remote territory: Heard Island and McDonald Islands. These icy outposts about 4,100km southwest of Perth are home to Australia’s only active volcanoes. These isolated islands
Housing Australia chair Carol Austin has resigned following questions about the agency’s leadership. Austin was appointed to the board in June 2023 ahead of its transition from the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation to Housing Australia. SMH reports six of eight top executives resigned in the following 12 months, and
President Donald Trump’s new partnership with Pfizer to sell drugs directly to consumers is being cast as a major win for patients. He’s right about the problem: healthcare and prescription drugs cost too much.
Families are struggling, and patients often face heartbreaking choices between groceries, rent and the medicines they need. But the proposed ...
Peter Meere will be the inaugural head of South Australia’s Office for AI. In this role, Meere will oversee the state government’s use of AI, with a focus on strategic and responsible adoption. Meere is an accomplished executive leader with C-suite experience in the Commonwealth and South Australian public services.
SonyThe world of graduate research studies in higher education is not typically deemed cinematic material: the “actions” of scholarship are rather prosaic. However, two films currently in cinemas have put graduate research on the screen. Sorry, Baby, an indie film by writer/director Victor Eva and Luca Guadagnino’s After the
The Northern Territory government is pushing reforms at a cracking pace, with an omnibus bill introduced to parliament last week. The Attorney-General and Police Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 makes significant changes to each of the territory’s Public Trustee Act, Police Administration Act, Information Act, and Firearms Act. The Public Trustee ...
Photo by Andrew Neel/PexelsKnowing when to stop psychological therapy is just as important as knowing when to start. The decision is complex and influenced by many factors, including your own progress, your relationship with the therapist, and your broader life. Therapy is expensive, even if you’ve got a mental health
Well, well, well. It seems Kamala Harris has finished licking her wounds after her defeat in last year’s presidential race and she, er, wants to do it all over again. Speaking to the BBC, the Democrat told Laura Kuenssberg that she might run again for the White House: ‘I am not done.’ Whether the polls are quite as optimistic about her chances is ...
The war in Gaza has not ended; it has changed its shape. What began as a brutal confrontation has now hardened into a political and geographic experiment, one whose contours may define the region’s next decade. Beneath the surface of ceasefires and reconstruction plans lies a deeper transformation: the reappearance of the Palestinian question, after ...
The Booker Foundation announced on Friday what it called its most ambitious project in twenty years: the launch of a Children’s Booker Prize. Well, heavens: what am I to do with that? As a columnist, most of my business is moaning and carping. Happiness, as it is said, writes white, and the default position of the comment hack in search of a subject is ...
The wall-to-wall chorus of condemnation of Sarah Pochin’s remarks last week about woke advertising has been hysterical even by the left’s standards. ‘Sarah Pochin’s comments were a disgrace’, fulminated Labour’s X account, ‘and Nigel Farage’s silence is deafening.’ David Lammy said the remarks were ‘mean, nasty and racist’ and wants her sacked. Health ...
Query: what kind of electoral landslide is it when most of the electorate doesn’t turn up? Not quite a landslide, I’d say – more the shifting of shingle. To put it another way, in the Irish presidential election, fewer than half of voters turned out (45.8 per cent). Three in four electors did not vote for Catherine Connolly, the United Left candidate. ...
In the middle of the Southern Indian Ocean lies a vast underwater volcanic ridge known as the Kerguelen Plateau. At its centre sits Australia’s most remote territory: Heard Island and McDonald Islands. These icy outposts about 4,100km southwest of Perth are home to Australia’s only active volcanoes. These isolated islands
Housing Australia chair Carol Austin has resigned following questions about the agency’s leadership. Austin was appointed to the board in June 2023 ahead of its transition from the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation to Housing Australia. SMH reports six of eight top executives resigned in the following 12 months, and
President Donald Trump’s new partnership with Pfizer to sell drugs directly to consumers is being cast as a major win for patients. He’s right about the problem: healthcare and prescription drugs cost too much.
Families are struggling, and patients often face heartbreaking choices between groceries, rent and the medicines they need. But the proposed ...
Peter Meere will be the inaugural head of South Australia’s Office for AI. In this role, Meere will oversee the state government’s use of AI, with a focus on strategic and responsible adoption. Meere is an accomplished executive leader with C-suite experience in the Commonwealth and South Australian public services.
SonyThe world of graduate research studies in higher education is not typically deemed cinematic material: the “actions” of scholarship are rather prosaic. However, two films currently in cinemas have put graduate research on the screen. Sorry, Baby, an indie film by writer/director Victor Eva and Luca Guadagnino’s After the
The Northern Territory government is pushing reforms at a cracking pace, with an omnibus bill introduced to parliament last week. The Attorney-General and Police Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 makes significant changes to each of the territory’s Public Trustee Act, Police Administration Act, Information Act, and Firearms Act. The Public Trustee ...
Photo by Andrew Neel/PexelsKnowing when to stop psychological therapy is just as important as knowing when to start. The decision is complex and influenced by many factors, including your own progress, your relationship with the therapist, and your broader life. Therapy is expensive, even if you’ve got a mental health