July
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Economic logic always trumps junk politics
Brexit, MAGA trade policies, and the Coalition’s nuclear power push will fail because they make no economic sense.
- Craig Emerson
- Opinion
- UK election
The Conservatives imploded. Labour simply filled the vacuum
Labour’s landslide shares some parallels with Tony Blair’s 1997 win but those end with Keir Starmer’s small target strategy and threadbare policy.
- Michael Turner
Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories
Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.
- Hans van Leeuwen
June
Israeli business leaders push for elections
A forum of Israel’s top 200 business leaders is calling for early elections “to save Israel from a deep economic crisis”.
- Marissa Newman and Galit Altstein
- Exclusive
- Hong Kong protests
Crosby Textor advised pro-Beijing HK officials
The Australian political consultancy provided advice used by pro-Beijing officials in Hong Kong ahead of the start of national security laws that dramatically curtailed free speech.
- Kylar Loussikian
May
Lex Greensill alleges his UK pursuers were protecting David Cameron
The fallen Aussie financier alleges a media leak by Britain’s Insolvency Service, which is seeking to ban him as a company director, was politically motivated.
- Hans van Leeuwen
April
Why China’s spies are being caught all over Europe
A flurry of arrests this week reflect the continent’s newly toughened response to Beijing’s espionage activities and political meddling.
- Andrew Higgins and Christopher F. Schuetze
‘It is clear the Israelis are making a decision to act’
Britain’s foreign secretary David Cameron acknowledged during a visit to Israel that an Israeli reprisal seemed inevitable.
- Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Michael Levenson
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Trump’s Republicans are now Putin’s puppets
Republicans have a stark choice before the US presidential election: help Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky or pay fealty to Donald Trump.
- Edward Luce
- Opinion
- Middle East tensions
Like Biden, Labor is on its own Israel journey
Penny Wong wants a two-state solution, but the reality is Gaza is looking more like the US quagmire in Iraq
- Updated
- James Curran
Biden vents ‘outrage’ over deadly Israeli strike on aid workers
The incident drew widespread condemnation and ratcheted up pressure on Israel to ease the disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza after six months of war.
- Updated
- Nandita Bose
March
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
A British friend with important lessons for Australia
The UK is a good strategic partner for us. It is also a public policy laboratory for what works – and what does not.
- Alexander Downer
‘Dangerous world’: AUKMIN talks call out Chinese coercion
Security in the Indo-Pacific and the Euro-Atlantic regions are inseparable, Australian and British ministers say.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
‘Raided, arrested’: Hong Kong security law threat to Western business
The measures, which further tighten national security laws imposed by Beijing in 2020, fuelled concerns about Hong Kong’s future as Asia’s business hub.
- Updated
- James Warrington and Sarah Newey
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
The details of the Australian businessman’s claim against the UK’s Department for Business and Trade have not yet been made public.
- Rafe Uddin and Cynthia O’Murchu
February
Navalny’s allies accuse Russia of murder cover-up
Police arrest hundreds of people at spontaneous memorial gatherings in Russia for the jailed opposition activist and Putin critic who died suddenly.
- Emma Burrows
- Analysis
- Dictators
Why are we talking ourselves into Armageddon?
Western leaders and commentators are increasingly talking of World War Three, but they may be overestimating the strengths of Russia, China and Iran.
- James Curran
January
Iran sends warship to Red Sea as tensions escalate
Iran’s foray into the Red Sea a day after the US action compounds a highly volatile situation in the channel that handles about 12 per cent of the world’s commerce.
- Sam Dagher and Arsalan Shahla
John Pilger, controversial campaigning journalist, dead at 84
John Pilger, who has died aged 84, was a journalist and documentary maker for whom the word uncompromising might have been invented.
- Telegraph Obituaries
December 2023
Landmark national security trial of media mogul opens in Hong Kong
The closely watched case is widely seen as a trial of press freedom and a test for judicial independence in the Asian financial hub.
- Kanis Leung