If there is one takeaway for England from this Ashes tour it should be how cricket thrives in a nation where it is readily and freely available as the dominant summer pastime

To international visitors, red and yellow beach flags may look like a warning.

I didn't want to write this.

I don't want to write this.

I feel like I need to write something.

I am writing this.

I am not good at writing about my Jewish experience.

I am still writing this, eight days after I started.

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All those sentences start with

Long before the shocking killings in Sydney, the threat of antisemitic violence was often left unchallenged. That must change

Their quest captured the imagination of the colony and became part of Australia’s foundation narrative. But it was a debacle led by an eccentric man with a poor sense of direction

Voice-operated technology can’t cope with non-mainstream varieties of English.

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Light-hearted note, penned on 15 August 1916, was found on Wharton beach, after severe winter storms washed away sand dunes

Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…