Lucasta Miller
Lucasta Miller is the author of Keats: A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph.
The lovelorn lady who broke the rules
A romantic forced by peculiar privilege into perpetual masquerade
Many lives of the first everywoman
Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise
A fresh take on difficult women
Why should women writers of the past take on today’s Utopian orthodoxies?
The new Stalinism?
Far left tactics are shifting in a more centralised, disruptive direction
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
The gambling suicides myth
The rate of deaths caused by gambling has been foolishly exaggerated
Labour could cause irreversible damage in government
Don’t give Keir Starmer a blank cheque to rewrite British society
Labour’s looming constitutional vandalism
A Labour landslide will complete the Blairite destruction of Britain’s unique constitution
Please remember, terrorism is evil
Worrying numbers of people romanticise the brutality of those perceived as “oppressed”
The National Trust should act its age
Our main heritage conservation charity wants to be down with the kids
Anger and intuition
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: String quartets 6, 13, 15 (Chandos)
Lactose intolerance
Stories of social progress are our mother’s, er, I mean, our parents’ milk
Nesta, I detest ya
An engine of innovation has become a puddle of inanity