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Australia’s defence strategy is America. Let’s get that out of the way at the beginning. No America. No national security ...
As a poet, Ocean Vuong has won every prize going. Now here’s The Emperor of Gladness, his second novel. His first, On Earth ...
Over a few short months after the defeat of Nazism in May 1945, the ‘valiant Russians’ who had fought alongside Britain and ...
Sarah Moss is a prolific and vital novelist whose books encompass an array of subjects from Victorian social reform and ...
Peter Watson begins his survey of the history of ideas in Britain with the assertion that the national mindset (which at that ...
Be under no illusions: this is not a food memoir. Chopping Onions on My Heart is a linguistic exploration of belonging; a ...
I’ve never been much concerned with what happened in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1387. I suspect that may even be true ...
While much of the Western debate remains trapped in tired slogans and false moral narratives, events on the ground in the ...
Rachel Reeves delivered her spending plans for the next three years less than 24 hours ago, but already the credibility of ...
Does anyone know what’s actually happening in Ballymena, in Northern Ireland? If you’ve just been following the news on the ...
In 50 years’ time,’ Augustus John gloomily reflected following his sister’s death on 18 September 1939, ‘I will be known as ...
As if the Labour government didn’t have enough on its plate with Rachel Reeves’s spending review to be announced at midday, ...