Poets
The dark horse of Durban
The work of Roy Campbell does not deserve to be ignored
The unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
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
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Were we close to a revolution in 1926?
Nine Days in May / The Edge of Revolution
Stop selling sexism
Banning strip clubs might sound unrealistic but it is the right thing to do
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Why there will probably be no early election
It would be all but impossible to build an attractive but realistic manifesto
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
No gods, no monsters
We should stop projecting our neuroses onto foreign leaders
The Hollywood starlet and the immigration albatross
Free marketeers were too content to ignore the negative externalities of immigration
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?