Congratulations to Penny Wong for taking the brave steps to commence a debate on the conflict in the Middle East.
The washing is the easy part. The drying requires real strategy.
The YIMBYs should not prioritise a high-density housing ring around the city over transport. They must be considered conjointly.
The attack on heritage is in effect the same land grab on older inner-city areas that developers ran in the late 60s and early 70s,a campaign all about developer profits and not about affordability of housing or good urban planning.
The conflict in Northern Ireland was once seen as insoluble. Yet now there is peace. Are there lessons for the combatants in the Middle East?
Under the plan,the age of sale would rise from 18 every year,so a child aged 14 today would never be allowed to legally buy tobacco.
Whichever way you go,things tend to work out just grand in Ireland.
Britain has become Limboland,a nation in which one of its most famous tea-towel epigrams is in danger of becoming a looping incantation:Keep calm and carry on.
Under Commonwealth Games Federation rules,there is scope for individual sports to host their own championships away from the Games. But if it becomes a watered-down carnival,would anyone want it?
Michelle O’Neill’s attendance would have been unimaginable 20 years ago,while the presence of China’s vice president is unlikely to pass without controversy.
US President Joe Biden earlier met separately with the leaders of the five parties that made up the pact,stressing a resumption as part of the peace deal.