John Milton
Satan’s sedition
Liberty, license and Milton’s multifaceted allegory for Oliver Cromwell
Paradise dimmed
John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the greatest poem in the English language, yet it seems to be fading slowly from public view. Who could write a new national epic?
Trojan horse separatism
Spanish unity is being bartered away in a game of political greed as a Catalan coup-leader is allowed to stroll back into the country
Their generation
How young rockers became venerable sages
Dark lessons from Canada
Once “assisted dying” is legal, the boundaries of what is permissible expand
With Conservative friends like these…
The Tories have kept elevating their own ideological opponents
Cardinal win
Conclave is a political drama and a closed-room mystery rolled into one
Keir’s comms catastrophe
Labour’s goal is clear but its messaging is anything but
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
Making a difference
Over the past five years we’ve been keeping things civilised
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Why Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted
There does not appear to be any case for rejecting the decision of the jury
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
