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ON MY THIRTIETH birthday – a while ago – a friend showed me a cartoon parody of a high-school...

By Joanna Kujawa

'WHAT YOU HAVE to consider is who visited Bucharest. Bucharest was the point of contact for trade unionists and...

By Jane R Goodall

'These incompatible misfits who were smuggled into Australia should all be kicked out ... Thank God for the Howard...

By Eva Hornung

'The first feeling when writing other cultures...is a loss of authority.' – Eva Hornung'I met a traveller from an...

By Stephanie Green

THE INVITATION HAD come, but did I really want to spend Christmas in Phnom Penh? An introvert's introvert, my...

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE a good plague to get the blood moving. When you look at plagues past it is...

By Norman Swan

IN 2005, I LOST the ability to travel for pleasure. Until then, I would work until I'd banked about...

By Mark Dapin

...this European self has never been self-sufficient: it has always learned, borrowed, or stolen from elsewhere. We need to...to...

By Pat Hoffie

Photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness– Nigel Farndale I BOUGHT my first camera,...

By Kate Veitch

‘AT LAST,' I think, as a boulder hurtles towards me.Go to Sicily and you expect to have a bag...

By Tony Wheeler

THE WORLD HAS changed, provoking heated discussion among international relations observers. The contending theories may seem obscure but the...

By William Tow

JUST AFTER THE Bali bombings of October 12, 2002, a colleague asked one of those curly questions academics sometimes...

By Adrian Vickers