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- Tony Wright’s Column
- Luciano Pavarotti
A glorious song and sporting beauty offer escape from gathering darkness
In a world tumbling ever deeper into darkness, great sporting events accompanied by the magnificent aria Nessun Dorma grant blessed release.
- Tony Wright
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‘Losing control’: Trump makes UK prime minister the target over island fiasco
An island in the Indian Ocean, which is likely to play a key role in a potential war between the US and Iran, has set off a political storm in the UK, with Trump giving prime minister Keir Starmer a serve.
- David Crowe
Ministers back Starmer after rebels call for leader to quit over Mandelson
The British PM is fighting a Labour rebellion after the head of the party’s Scottish wing called on him to stand down, sharply escalating the pressure for new leadership.
- David Crowe
- Opinion
- UK politics
Westminster woes deepen for UK Labour. Sussan Ley should take note
UK politics is fracturing left, right and centre with febrile speculation about an imminent challenge to the PM Keir Starmer.
- George Brandis
The name of Brigitte Bardot will live on, for reasons right and wrong
She was one of the biggest stars of international cinema in the 1950s and ’60s, but her fame post-retirement in 1973 came largely for all the wrong reasons.
- Karl Quinn
- Analysis
- World politics
Midterms, Moscow and MAGA’s main man: How 2026 will be shaped
What’s in store for the world next year? As our correspondents looked ahead, the thread stitching it all together – or pulling it apart – led back to the White House.
- Michael Koziol, David Crowe, Lisa Visentin and Zach Hope
- Updated
- Bondi shooting
‘You let the disease spread’: Netanyahu accuses Albanese of failing to curb antisemitism
The Israeli PM says he warned Australia of the dangers of not taking enough action against antisemitism as other world leaders condemn the Bondi Beach mass shooting.
- Josefine Ganko, Michael Koziol and Paul Dyer
- Opinion
- Trump's America
A deep dive into the time of Trumpian magical realism
“What will fiction be like in the Trump era?” one writer wondered eight years ago. Now we have the answer: not as fanciful as reality.
- Nikki Barrowclough
- Opinion
- Immigration
Libs have no plan for immigration tensions, so Labor must act before it gets ugly
Oppositional politics risks an unedifying partisan stoush over our borders. It risks a slow-motion tragedy.
- Parnell Palme McGuinness
- Analysis
- UK
Milkshakes, mansions and EVs: Britain’s brutal new $53b tax grab
A new levy on electric vehicles is just one of the shocks in a budget that highlights the grim state of the UK’s finances.
- David Crowe