Welcome to the Mallard Australia. Below, Emma, Jake and Jeremy briefly detail where the Mallard has come from, the problems it hopes to address, and where it is going. Origins The Mallard started in...
Moby-Dick is not an easy read. The presence of the seemingly unconquerable tome on my desk tormented me for weeks. At times, slogging through such lengthy digressions as the differences between the right and...
Columnists / Culture / Mark Seymour
by Guest Contributor · Published July 19, 2021 · Last modified July 18, 2021
As we slowly pry our way out of the current pandemic, we’ve started to see the fruits of this suffering. With every pandemic there’s an artistic bounce-back to consolidate the struggles that came from...
I moved into my Bradford bedsit in the evening of Christmas Day 2006. I had spent the day singing carols and eating Christmas dinner served by volunteers at the Salvation Army hostel that had...
Columnists / Culture / Sarah Stook
by Sarah Stook · Published July 12, 2021 · Last modified July 10, 2021
Ah, the classics. They’re beloved by some, whilst others angrily slog through them in GCSE English. From Tolstoy to Hemingway, classics reach across the globe and bring us exciting stories. During lockdown, reading soared...
Columnists / Culture / Sarah Stook
by Sarah Stook · Published June 29, 2021 · Last modified June 28, 2021
When we read books about politics, many of us may be more inclined to read about what happens in the Anglosphere. It’s natural really- it’s our language, closer to our culture and what we...
Columnists / Culture / Dustin Lovell
by Guest Contributor · Published June 8, 2021 · Last modified June 6, 2021
We’ve all felt it—the mixed excitement and dread at hearing a beloved book is set to be made into a movie. They might do it right, capturing not only key plot events but also...
Columnists / Culture / Sarah Stook
by Guest Contributor · Published May 31, 2021 · Last modified May 30, 2021
Africa, with its 54 nations, is not a monolithic place, however, many of its countries are bonded by dictators, national resources, and corruption. This is what drives Paul Kenyon’s book. Divided into several chapters,...
Columnists / Culture / Mario Laghos
by Guest Contributor · Published May 26, 2021 · Last modified May 23, 2021
The Common Sense Group, chaired by Sir John Hayes, who boast amongst their number some 50 Tory MPs – the membership is not listed publicly – have released a downloadable book, Conservative thinking for...
If it is time to talk about decolonising music in Britain, then it is perhaps time to restate the painfully obvious: the United-Kingdom, across millenia, has imported the quasi totality of its classical repertoire....
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