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.
Face to face with history
Holbein at the Tudor Court brings the English Renaissance court back to vivid life
Rochdale is a tragedy that could happen again
Lessons have not been learned, and perpetrators are still at large
Jamie Tradescant: highbrow sports journalist
Jamie’s articles are not simply a riot of historical and philosophical allusions — no, they are all about style
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
The meaning of the battle for Polish Television
The “liberal” suspension of the rule of law should concern us all
Why we should question the charge of “Islamophobia”
Valid criticism of beliefs and behaviour should not be equated with hateful bigotry
Banning masks from protests is a bad idea
Anonymity can be essential to dissent against tyrannical regimes
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
How big a problem is problem gambling?
Jolyon Maugham should not roll the dice on opposing GambleAware