A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
Writer who caught the reality of war
Vasily Grossman was not only a great correspondent in World War Two but a courageous dissident
Disunited States
A third of Americans now support the splitting up of the nation into like-minded countries independent of Washington
Who wants to be a teacher?
Lucy Kellaway’s memoir is a must-read for anyone considering the profession
The human rights era failed us
More than 70 years into the human rights era, the world is no more peaceful or tolerant
PAP before swine
Processed Animal Protein feed — what could possibly go wrong?
Samuel Beckett
A prize-winning old fraud
Bursting Boris’s bubble
Labour has found an attack line that has the benefit of being true
Laughing laureate of Western decline
Michel Houellebecq’s prescient, mocking critiques of our debased modern world
Murders for late May
From psychological character studies to witty and fast-paced detective novels, Jeremy Black rounds up the best crime fiction for late Spring
Rhodes still stands
Blaming the British Empire for Brexit is not only ignorant — it’s total rubbish
You can’t handle the chaos
Gove? Mitchell Gove? Sorry, Michael? No, never heard of him, why?