Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’ Welsh word-wiz Dylan Thomas’ angry poem to his dying dad implied that the older man resisted passing. But for others, the end is welcome.

Back in January last year, my Toda Policy Brief 182 was published with the title “Israel and Gaza: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”.

The Reserve Bank has always denied that its manipulation of short-term interest rates to slow or hasten the growth in demand ...

By noon on 7 October 2023, news of Palestinians taking hostages grip the attention of Israel’s top military and political ...

Rising inequality and declining living standards have posed a threat to democracy in several democracies, but so far not in ...

For most of its history, the Australian Labor Party spoke of education as a public good, the light on the hill, a vision of ...

The claim by the prime minister, premiers and their education ministers that public schools will be fully funded by 2034 is a ...

When it comes to the domestic political fallout from the Gaza conflict, there are no more reliable and uncritical friends of ...

One poll, the Sunday Times MRP survey released in recent days, has Starmer as the most unpopular PM ever. As the Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham makes noises about mounting a leadership bid, it is ...

An estimated 250,000 people dressed in red crowded into Museum Square in Amsterdam, demanding that the Dutch government end ...

When I first saw the figures on international protests from October 2023 to September 2025, I was fascinated. I hadn’t ...

The horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk is being invested with all sorts of meaning, well beyond the personal tragedy it ...