Poetry
Lana Del Rey’s poetic dream
The news is bad, but on Del Rey’s watch the poetry is sometimes pretty good, and getting better
A Pauline conversion
Christopher Pincher discovers a family wine business in the south east of Sancerre
Poet who wrote for all of us
Daniel Johnson says that Clive James’s enduring legacy is his verse
Consent isn’t everything
Protections against violent sexual encounters are being dismantled
The state Will Hutton is in
Dissecting a spiteful attack on British farmers
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
The Scullionbait Awards for Reporting Merit
Articles with no opposing quotes, criticism, or trace of so-called “balance”
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Will judges protect free speech for Christians?
A new case will determine whether expressing normal Christian beliefs precludes employment
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
