Randall Swingler
A forgotten poet of the people
The legacy of a left behind war poet
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Hush, nepo baby
Such colourful champions of free speech should be treasured rather than ridiculed
Two cheers for Trump on free speech
The President-elect cannot just protect speech that he likes
Amicus curAI?
The implementation of AI into the judicial process must be handled with care
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
BoJo’s Life of Johnson
Exclusive extracts of perhaps the best autobiography by a former Conservative prime minister called Boris
