This week, Boris Johnson gaffed his way into the UK prime ministership, wedging the Atlantic (and the rest of the world) between two mop-haired buffoons. Bernard Keane and Guy Rundle analysed what this development means for global politics.

Back home, our INQ team investigated Australia’s chaotic and exploited visa system amid the explosive report on the Administrative Appeals Tribunal from former High Court justice Ian Callinan.

Finally, we explored the historical roots and contemporary arguments surrounding the Sydney v Melbourne rivalry. Is it even a thing? Catch up today to find out!

As always, write to boss@crikey.com.au to let us know what you thought of the week’s news. Please include your full name if you’d like to be considered for publication.

BERNARD KEANE 3 minute read

What Boris Johnson and Donald Trump have in common is less important than the phenomenon they represent.

CHRIS WOODS 4 minute read

In the ongoing battle between Melbourne and Sydney, it seems the latter has begun to fall behind. What happened — and what does it mean for the future?

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

A scathing review of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal shows how the government has created the circumstances that have allowed tens of thousands of illegal immigrants to remain in Australia.

GUY RUNDLE 5 minute read

By actually becoming an entertainer who happened to be an MP, Boris has been able to create a force-field in which he is not only rewarded for lying, but doubly so for being caught lying.

ASHLEIGH BARRACLOUGH 4 minute read

I had a glimpse of what politics could look like if young people were given a real voice and, I gotta say, it looked pretty good.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

While the government has demonised maritime asylum seekers, it has ignored illegal immigrants who fulfil every smear directed at refugees — and who provide a huge pool of cheap labour for employers.

GUY RUNDLE 4 minute read

HBO's hit mini-series Chernobyl is a register of the recent mass, unsettling realisation that humanity may simply lack the ability to put in place the overarching processes required to arrest the meltdown occurring at our core.

CHARLIE LEWIS and AMBER SCHULTZ 4 minute read

With rampant exploitation regularly exposed in the hospitality industry, Crikey looks into what's allowing wage theft and worker exploitation to continue.

NADINE VON COHEN 4 minute read

Boundlessly inquisitive, quietly political and full of sass, Margaret Fulton saw life as an adventure and wanted to bring everyone along for the ride.

BERNARD KEANE 4 minute read

The government has decided parliament's Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security "stymies" security agencies and is a threat to national security — all in the name of wedge politics.

GUY RUNDLE 4 minute read

We all know cash is on the decline in society, but a society without cash is a dangerous thing indeed.

CHRIS WOODS 4 minute read

Scott Morrison and the Liberal Party seem hell-bent on keeping Newstart payments at an unlivable standard. But it's not just the Coalition holding payments back.

REBEKAH HOLT 4 minute read

The debate over Australia's deportation laws is tearing Australia apart from one of its closest allies — and it's only getting worse.

JASON MURPHY 4 minute read

Melbourne isn't known as Australia's creative hub by chance. This is the result of a very deliberate, and very successful, campaign.