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?
Why not the Taliban Line?
These new overground lines are not sufficiently progressive
How can we pay for our cathedrals?
Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
How did Conservative modernisation go?
David Cameron’s “A-List” has turned out to be second-rate
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
Bring back the Law Lords
Tony Blair’s introduction of a US-style Supreme Court has served to undermine the supremacy of Parliament
Sloane danger
Obvious, expensive and tasteless, Azzurra’s food perfectly echoes Mr Angell’s ambience
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
The end of Pevsner
The monumental work of maintaining a live record of the architecture of the UK and Ireland is in danger of being abandoned