Basil Bunting
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Tablets of stone
Tech firms increasingly set the rules when it comes to education
Labour’s insecurity counsel
A strategy of concession and apology will not build Britain’s soft power
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
Murders for November
Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland
So many voters got it wrong
The ignorant masses have betrayed democracy
Marianna in the trenches
She wants to dive into the murky depths of social media, but her microphone can only scratch the surface
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
50 years ago…
Ali dances, bounces, beckons Foreman on, matador against bull
