Alison Milbank
Alison Milbank is Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Nottingham and writes on many aspects of religion and culture from Dante and Tolkien to vampires and the Gothic. She is an Anglican priest, who serves the parish church cathedral of Southwell Minster as priest vicar and Canon Theologian.
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
Knife-edge of the Western world
Vilnius is a serene western capital on a critical eastern frontier
An open letter on academic free speech
Calls for more intellectual openness are not a defence of Islamists and Holocaust deniers. A response to Mark Ferguson MP
The world is not enough
In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
Resist Labour’s managerial revolution
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are grimly committed to expanding the state and entrenching bureaucracy
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe