Results for "philip larkin"
Sacred — and vital — spaces
A church is not the same as an old castle or a pub
A farewell to a brilliant broadcaster
Melvyn Bragg has declared his innings closed after 27 years
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
It’s not for kids
Children are always unwelcome in Opera, except in The Magic Flute
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
AI will not satisfy
Human desires tend to be rooted in the human
Time to forget?
Remembrance day is like an arts and craft spin-off of the Great British Bake-Off
We should be afraid of Virginia Woolf
Woolf’s statue is the latest to come under review
In search of the right stuff
Why are there so few conservatively-minded novelists?
This show has said it all before
Not all bad, but the tone is too breezy
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Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
The trains have to run
Populists have had success in persuading people that they can govern — but can they actually govern?
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Picking at old wounds
The campaign to rejoin the EU has been revived
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
First-place Finnish
Shostakovich: Symphony 1; Moscow Cheryomushki (Philharmonia Records)
The Reparations Game
Chris and Henry talk to Nigel Biggar about reparations.
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system