Books & arts Boulez at 100, the Proms at 130 Andrew Ford 24 July 2025 This year’s BBC Proms celebrate composer, conductor and audience favourite Pierre Boulez ...

In Gallup’s original polling manifesto, intensity hadn’t mattered: if a poll was a “sampling referendum” designed to guide ...

National affairs Safety in numbers? Murray Goot 10 March 2025 How reliable is the exotic new breed of seat-by-seat political polls? Essays & reportage From Indigenous recognition to the Voice, and ...

Most Australians know comparatively little about their closest neighbour. While many of them would be able to rattle off the names of dozens of New Zealanders — sports people, politicians, actors, ...

Wagner, a member of the local gendarmerie in a village called Ustinovka, allegedly organised the digging of a mass grave, ...

About a third of the way into John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs — a book that sets Lennon and McCartney’s platonic love affair in the context of their lyrics, melodic lines and chord structures — ...

Essays & reportage John Howard’s masterful blunder Graeme Dobell 29 May 2025 He achieved his goal, but Australia’s alliance-led march to Iraq lacked a vital ingredient Books & arts Chill winds Graeme ...

Sending in the troops is meant to signal power and control. Yet many locals saw it as a lesser example of the president’s ...

Last night two of my closest friends and I bade each other goodnight in our traditional style: a hug, an exclamatory “darling” and a whispered, emphatic, “I adore you.” Sometimes these friends will ...

Earlier this year, just ahead of the federal election, I emailed some routine questions to Home Affairs. I was planning an article for Inside Story about the challenge for an incoming immigration ...

Seventy-four years ago an outfit called Australian Public Opinion Polls conducted a Gallup survey about Australians’ attitudes to immigration. The headline in Melbourne’s Herald emphasised the ...

The wave of protests that swept through Indonesian cities and towns last week bore more than a few resemblances to those that brought down the Suharto regime in 1998. Some of the similarities are ...