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      Universities, a shared crisis, and two centre-right governments
    
    
      Glyn Davis 
    
    
      13 July 2020    
    
      Britain and Australia have reacted very differently to the pandemic’s impact on higher education
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Before the dust settled
    
    
      Jessica Urwin 
    
    
      4 June 2020    
    
      Television | The ABC’s satirical take on the Maralinga tests captures the confusion and the wilful blindness
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Film as history
    
    
      Brian McFarlane 
    
    
      29 May 2020    
    
      Books | The big screen offers a unique perspective on the past
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Covid-19’s awkward couple
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      26 May 2020    
    
      Britain’s book of government blunders has a new chapter
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The Covid-19 kidnap
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      25 March 2020    
    
      The virus looks like being the catalyst of yet another British revolution
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      Going down from Melbourne
    
    
      Stuart Macintyre 
    
    
      5 March 2020    
    
      Extract | Historian Ken Inglis finds his vocation, reveals a talent for journalism, and embarks for Oxford
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Global Britain’s frayed edges
    
    
      Nic Maclellan 
    
    
      7 February 2020    
    
      In the South Pacific, France is the likely beneficiary of Brexit
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The Brexit blame game
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      3 January 2020    
    
      Some supporters of Jeremy Corbyn think Brexit explains Labour’s defeat. But the evidence is scant
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Echoes of revolutions past
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      31 December 2019    
    
      A dizzying 2019 ends in a Conservative upheaval with distinct traces of Tony Blair’s New Labour
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The choice: Johnson in, Corbyn out, Brexit done
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      13 December 2019    
    
      Britain has voted for clarity, but the aftermath will be muddy
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Why Labour lost
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      13 December 2019    
    
      How important was Brexit to the British election result?
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Britain’s elusive epic
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      11 December 2019    
    
      A fragmented election campaign nears its big reveal
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      People power
    
    
      Peter Brent 
    
    
      4 December 2019    
    
      The tide of populism doesn’t always run the same way
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      A vote beyond the void
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      20 November 2019    
    
      Boris Johnson’s election may yet restore the pith to Britain’s democracy
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The rise of megaphone bureaucracy?
    
    
      Dennis Grube 
    
    
      26 September 2019    
    
      How civil servants are adapting to a hyper-partisan world
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
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      We, the establishment
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      25 September 2019    
    
      Britain’s Supreme Court overrules Queen, prime minister — and people
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      Moving fast and breaking things
    
    
      Peter Browne 
    
    
      2 September 2019    
    
      How much damage will Boris Johnson and his circle inflict on Britain?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Brexitannia on edge
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      21 August 2019    
    
      Boris Johnson’s team, clutching European exit visa and election plan, flies towards the sun
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      How Hollywood saw England
    
    
      Brian McFarlane 
    
    
      1 August 2019    
    
      Books | American filmmakers viewed England through the lens of contemporary history
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      A good day for democracy
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      24 July 2019    
    
      Boris Johnson the showman needs to become a statesman. Can he?
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        Books & arts
      
        
      The sulphurous intrigue of the past
    
    
      Matthew Ricketson 
    
    
      12 July 2019    
    
      Books | The shifting allegiances of The Troubles are brought alive in this year’s Orwell Prize winner
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
        International
      
        
      Britain’s trapped transition
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      28 June 2019    
    
      One thing is needed before Brexit: a coherent government
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Boris’s brain
    
    
      James Murphy 
    
    
      1 June 2019    
    
      Australian tactician Lynton Crosby could win the prime ministership for Boris Johnson, but at what cost?
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      “Our house is burning”
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      24 May 2019    
    
      A young prophet of apocalypse invigorates Europe’s climate debate
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      If… A Brexit fable
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      2 April 2019    
    
      Suppose the Remainers had narrowly won the 2016 Brexit referendum. What happened next?
    
  
                  
      
    
  
  
          
        National affairs
      
        
      How Britain kicked coal
    
    
      John Quiggin 
    
    
      2 April 2019    
    
      Once heavily reliant on coal-fired power, the British economy has taken the shift in its stride
    
  
                
                      
      
    
  
  
          
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      All at sea in Brexitannia
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      11 March 2019    
    
      The mutinies continue, but the endgame of Britain’s European drama could also be an opening
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Exclusion, prosecution or restricted re-entry?
    
    
      Jessie Blackbourn 
    
    
      26 February 2019    
    
      The controversy over Shamima Begum’s bid to return to Britain from Syria has parallels in Australia
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      The London spring
    
    
      David Hayes 
    
    
      19 February 2019    
    
      A split from Labour is a shaft of light amid the Brexit gloom
    
  
                
          
          
  
    
        
      
    
  
  
          
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      Appealing to the country
    
    
      Tony Blackshield 
    
    
      19 February 2019    
    
      Parliament unworkable? There are precedents for sending MPs back to the people, but they might not embolden the governor-general
    
  
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