James Dirickx-Jones Archive

The history of boybands is littered with scandal and heartbreak. Robbie Williams famously destroyed Take That with his departure (though Gary Barlow and the rest eventually proved their worth a decade later). Justin Timberlake happily left his bandmates in the dust as …

It’s a cool spring day in Robertson, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. As I walk along the rows of trees, even though the sun is shining I’m glad to be wearing extra layers. My friend Jet, the Blue Heeler, …

There has been a complication in scientists’ attempts to persuade the world about the importance of acting on climate change: how to explain why global warming seems to have paused. Indeed, warming since the turn of the century has not been at …

Sweden has a bit of a reputation. Among progressive Australians it and its fellow Nordic nations are lauded for their social services, and that for the cost of a very high tax bill you are rewarded by living in one of the …

  Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the nations that emerged in its place have struggled to respond to a new world. We have all been watching Ukraine on our televisions as it slides towards civil war, but it is …