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
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Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Brexit was not an act of economic self-harm
Whatever you have heard, UK-EU trade is doing just fine
How the “Burnham bind” will rewrite British politics
If Andy Burnham wins in Makerfield, Labour has a bigger opportunity than people think
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Among the true believers
Belgium’s cycling culture is unique, and increasingly under threat
The global risks of the AI illusion
What if AI turns out to be a lot less profitable than we have been told?
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet
English football is not boring
Greater competition is being confused with dullness
Orbánism is not dead
The veteran Hungarian prime minister is going but his agenda lives on
IPSO has to go
A regulator built to uphold standards has become a partisan censor — the right must walk away before it is too late
Westminster is not Manchester
Andy Burnham would find being the PM a lot more difficult than being a mayor
