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The Fix: Solid rock, fatal bites
The Fix: Solid rock, fatal bites
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The decline of Europe: “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”
The decline of Europe: “Rage, rage, against the dying of the light”
Book Review: Homelands: A Personal History of Europe by Timothy Garton Ash (Bodley Head, 2023) A decade or so ago, Timothy Garton Ash might well have envisaged a memoir-cum…
AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having
AUKUS: A debate after the fact is still worth having
Book review: The Echidna Strategy: Australia's Search for Power and Peace (La Trobe University Press, 2023) When Robert Menzies announced his retirement in January 1966,…
The Fix: All roads lead to the White House
The Fix: All roads lead to the White House
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Plumbing the depths of the former East Germany’s grotesque delusion
Plumbing the depths of the former East Germany’s grotesque delusion
Book review: Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990, by Katja Hoyer (Penguin 2023) Many of us only know the former East Germany (GDR) at second hand, through the eviscerating…
The Fix: War, waste and The Wiggles
The Fix: War, waste and The Wiggles
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Seychelles: Washington comes calling
Seychelles: Washington comes calling
The United States has announced it is reopening its embassy in Seychelles. The mission, opened at independence in 1976, was closed as a cost cutting measure in 1996 coincident…
The Fix: A realist take(s) on ChatGPT
The Fix: A realist take(s) on ChatGPT
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Finding a place for youth leadership in Australia’s new International Development Policy
Finding a place for youth leadership in Australia’s new International Development Policy
Asia and the Pacific are the most youthful regions of the world, with 25 per cent of their populations aged between 15 and 29. Combined, the two regions are home to 60 per cent of…
Boris Johnson: Does distance really lend enchantment to the view?
Boris Johnson: Does distance really lend enchantment to the view?
Book review: Johnson at 10: The Inside Story, by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic, 2023) Are we better off waiting for tardy but considered analyses of our political…