Reportedly, the Guardian noted, there are 17 military bases in Australia controlled entirely by the United States, including the massive US global military communications centre at Pine Gap. In ...

Let me explain. The Cricket in Times Square was first published in 1960. It transpires that Chester the cricket has a rare musical gift for chirping classical music. The cricket becomes the pet of a ...

If political science really was a science, and the people in lab coats tried to create the perfect political issue in the lab, the end result would look a lot like the R16 social media ban. Checklist: ...

In the Werewolf series on classic children’s books, this week’s essay is about George Selden’s charming story of interspecies friendship There’s no logical reason for […] ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books features Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel The Dark Is Rising. The antlered horseman on the cover of The Dark is Rising is a depiction of ...

About 15 years ago on Werewolf, I started writing a series of articles about classic children’s books. Over the next few months, these articles will be re-published here, every Friday. The series ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books continues this week with this story by Avi of murder, mutiny and teenage rebellion on the high seas All children have the same needs for ...

This week, the Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s literature turns the spotlight onto Robert C. O’Brien’s book about one family’s encounter with genetic engineering.. With rare skill, ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

Political myths die hard. For decades it has been taken on faith – all evidence to the contrary – that those business-savvy National Party types really, really know how to run the economy, just as ...

Labour’s pursuit of a ‘National-lite’ approach to tax and fiscal policy continues. Its painfully slow release of policy has finally revealed that alongside its anaemic capital gains tax (to be enacted ...