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.
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A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The Cup and me
My lasting World Cup memories have nothing to do with England
Knowingly crass and conflicted
This American culture is hegemonic because even to steal from it is to propel it
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
What difference does he make?
Andy Burnham is not the answer to our woes because Burnhamism is not replicable
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Will Andy crash and Burnham?
The Manchester man is going to face the same constraints as Keir Starmer
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
