What Pep Guardiola knew at Manchester City relates to the true nature of the club and more basic things like spectacle and human nature

With Jorge Jesus, the Portugal coach, saying Cristiano Ronaldo would again be a substitute against Denmark, the 41-year-old has left the team’s training camp

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Moment of reckoning for ‘Mr Nice Guy’ of music, who embraced Macklemore’s political cred only for pro-Palestine rapper to be dropped under pressure from billionaire

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Wilson, whose 2017 English translation of Homer’s epic poem inspired Christopher Nolan’s box office hit, is revisiting it after criticising the film adaptation

Her latest novel appears to savage a celebrity. But Cusk has, once again, managed to turn herself into the victim.

Europe sheltered many refugees in 2015. Its hard-line reaction to a new crisis in Ceuta shows how, 11 years on, the far right has reshaped European attitudes.

Analyst says mining billionaire unlikely to be worried by lost paper profits after Elon Musk’s company dipped below its debut share price

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has blamed the end of the White Australia policy for migration issues in the country during a controversial podcast appearance with a far-right activist in the UK.

Tens of billions of dollars in investment, and Australia's ambition to become a global AI power, could hinge on a law written in 1968 for an era of black-and-white television, film and radio.

The Doyles award committee is investigating why it took nearly 12 months to discover a winning landscape painting was an imitation of another artist's work.

One Nation says it has received $1.6 million in donations after launching a drive in response to a Labor fundraising campaign. Follow live.

Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households

Joanna Howe posts on social media that if purported images of human foetuses are in fact sugar gliders, ‘it doesn’t actually matter’

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In May 2025, Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, three literary true-crime writers, headed to Erin Patterson's trial. The resulting book just won an Australian Book Industry Award.

The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King, pulled off an ‘incredible double feat’ in succeeding as ‘both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel’

Czy w świecie powszechnego pędu i pośpiechu jest jeszcze miejsce na duże, wymagające opowieści? Olga Tokarczuk wyraża obawę, że ta era dobiegła końca. Dlatego najnowszą powieść, uważa za ostatnią w ka...

Chelsea’s players believe Xabi Alonso is the ideal candidate to become their next head as talks moved in the right direction

In late April, when South African literary giant JM Coetzee declined an invitation to a writers’ festival in Jerusalem, it meant a lot more than another throwaway tweet from a Hollywood celebrity. Wha...

Chelsea’s players feel Liam Rosenior’s successor needs to be a big character who can command the respect of the dressing room and keep strong egos in line

Evan Brier’s recent book conducts a depressing literary autopsy, complete with case studies.

Does Banksy's success mean we are more entitled to demand he pull his mask off, show his face? Does it matter that he says his anonymity is core to his art?

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British economist Gary Stevenson is on a speaking tour, warning Australia will follow the path of the UK with "poverty exploding" unless politicians deal with inequality.

Actor shouted down and pelted with fruit during Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing Fascists

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In February 2023 more than 100 charges were laid against the serial champions but we are still waiting for the verdict

Cristiano Ronaldo has been told by the Saudi Pro League ‘no individual determines decisions beyond their club’ amid a dispute over transfer spending

Report offers alternative of the US navy retaining boats and operating them out of Australian bases

Constellations, a series of events compiled after Adelaide festival board scrapped AWW, will run from 28 February to 5 March

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Football’s law-making body has backed plans to extend the use of VAR, allowing it to intervene on second yellow cards and the awarding of corners

Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation

Ole Gunnar Solskjær remains the slight favourite for the interim role but Darren Fletcher said he will oversee the FA Cup tie against Brighton on Sunday