Poetry
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
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
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
Fair vs free elections
The grey zone between interference and counter-interference is becoming Europe’s new political frontier
Keeping the faith
Brexit triumphalists can’t understand how other people living in the UK in 2026 do not share their enthusiasm
Tedious transgression
The mainstreaming of porn is dangerous, hypocritical and very, very boring
A slow Burnham
Andy Burnham is not from London. Have we mentioned that he is not from London?
The chairwoman of the board
A story driven at a whip-crack pace, pulsing with manic energy and nail-biting
Decolonisation dissected
This toxic and destructive ideology must be rejected
A chaplain’s vindication
The case of Dr Bernard Randall has exposed the rot in our institutions
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules
