Basil Bunting
“Dear Ezra … Yours Ever, B Bunting”
The voice of a poet whose chequered career reads like a cockeyed novel
The greats’ Dane
The story of Burton and Gielgud’s famed Broadway production of Hamlet has been turned into a West End play
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
The building that inspired Orwell
Was there an appetite at the time for monumental buildings, equivalent to those in Moscow?
Social media and the neoteny trap
The aesthetics of adolescence can be a distraction from the grim potential of the future
SEEN should be heard
A new group aims to remind the police to act without fear or favour
The Met is watching you
We are passively accepting the development of a society of hyper-surveillance
Portugal must be more than an EU vassal
As elections approach, can Portugal break the stultifying hold of a progressive, big state worldview?
Politics with the depth of a puddle
A month of politically-minded podcasts has reached its exhausting apogee
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
Everyone should be ashamed over Princess Kate but me
They spread unhinged fantasies while I asked sensible questions
