Julian Stannard
Julian Stannard is the author of Basil Bunting (Liverpool University Press, 2013). He tweets at @julian_stannard
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Badenoch’s “muscular liberalism” is a non-starter
The Conservative leader sounds hopelessly out of touch
Taking the liberal mask off prohibition
The case for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill is morally and economically unsound
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Heroes, villains and lessons in life
Intellectual history, sneered at in Oxford 40 years ago, is all the rage there now
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Why Christian culture is essential to education
It deeply informed our art and our ideas
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
Why Trump triumphed
The Democrats had too many self-inflicted disadvantages to overcome
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s path from sophisticated soirées to a squalid Fleet Street pub