Friday 15 August is a painful anniversary for Afghanistan – it is four years since the Taliban took Kabul, turning my… ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has realised a long-held ambition. From his early days in politics speaking at pro ...

In a move that reeks of ideological posturing over prudent statecraft to ensure our national security, Prime Minister Anthony ...

Why is it that the Victorian Parliament managed to unite in rapid time over a useless machete ban, but failed to support ...

This is the pseudo-scientific manner in which some people express the strength of their belief that an artificial ...

Slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent institutions of humankind. It was already well established four millennia ...

Full of strokes and blows/ broken, pitifully wounded’, the man, naked, or almost so, stands full frontal, legs and arms ...

Something strange is happening in the world of children’s and YA [young adult] literature,’ writes Adam Szetela, and his ...

When I lived in south London, my Algerian barber used to tell me that he came from Souk Ahras, ‘the home town of Augustine’.

Nicola Sturgeon has all the usual things she wants to achieve in her memoir: rumours to scotch, a legacy to spell out, and so ...

There is nobody who finds Gwyneth Paltrow, 52, more interesting than the woman who was a teenager in the 1990s. This was the ...

Language, it has been said, is the only true democracy – changed by the people that use it. But as with any democracy, there ...