Catherine Clarke
Lyrical wormholes into the past
A powerful evangelist for poetry, without a coherent proposition about English identity
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Lebanon’s finest
Henry Jeffreys savours some reds
and whites from the Bekaa valley
Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?
Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
How to build a Europe of the peripheries
Resetting Britain’s relations with the EU should not mean being beholden to France and Germany
The Boston barbarians
The Boston Symphony acted like a New Orleans nightclub owner with a recalcitrant pole-dancer
How the sausage gets made
On the illusions of evidence-based policy
Canis lupus labor
Europe is a wolf coming up the path to devour the Labour Party