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Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.
As the first anniversary of the London bombings approaches, people celebrate England's football victory, and Trafalgar Square is under repair. Celebration and cleaning mark the resilience of London and its refusal to allow fear to dominate public life.
We would normally expect outrage at this combination of evil doing and mendacity. Instead we find indifference.
Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.
The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance, not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.
Phrases such as ‘family values’ are increasingly bandied about, as a conservative reaction against modern pluralism, and against ethnic, particularly Turkish enclaves, in the 'new' Germany.
Morag Fraser, former editor of this journal, expressed a residual unease with the very notion of ‘Australian values’, belonging as she saw it to a ‘vocabulary of expediency’ rather than of conviction. What are 'Australian' values, asks Richard Treloar.
European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.
Frank O’Shea reviews Andrew Moore’s Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend.
There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.
Spanish royal wedding
Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.
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