Poetry
Shakespearean lore and order
A new anthology displays Shakespeare’s engagement with the sonnet form across his career, but at a high cost
A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
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
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Herodotus and the birth of enquiry
Before there were historians, there was Herodotus — a wandering Greek determined to discover why civilisations rise and fall
Why people smuggling means profits
People smuggling is one of the few functioning markets left in the UK
Trump will not discredit Europe’s populist right
European populism is a lot deeper than mere Trumpism
Gender self-ID was never the law
Barrister Akua Reindorf KC speaks about the controversial trans guidance the government is so loath to implement
The warlords’ insolence
The Americans must stop blaming Europe for their own mistake
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Our oriental roots
Marian Boswall salutes the early plant
hunters who revolutionised gardening
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
A crippling consensus
Labour, the Greens and the Lib Dems are singing from the same destructive hymn sheet