Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer and critic
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
When the farmers took on Starmer
It was an inspiring day in London as farmers resisted Labour’s class warfare
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Three decades of broken promises on immigration
Time and time again, Labour and the Conservatives have failed to deliver on their pledges
Public sector pay
Bumper pay rises for doctors and teachers are bound to result in higher inflation