William Poulos
William Poulos is a teacher and journalist. He tweets at @w_poulos
Glaring omissions of a whistle-stop tour
Carey is the tour guide of a magnificent villa telling of the wonders that lie beyond a closed door
Riffing on the poetic tradition
William Poulos says that in his wisdom and readability, Llewelyn Morgan serves his subject well
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
Department heads must roll
Apologies for gender dissidents are not enough — there must be consequences too
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
London is broken
Local politics can’t offer the renewal our nation’s capital desperately needs
Do machines laugh?
The experience of amusement defies a reductionist approach to the mind
The costs of independence
Northern Ireland offers sobering lessons on the consequences of devolutionary radicalism
It’s high time we banned dogs
The tide is turning against these slobbering beasts
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
