Seamus Heaney
A trip to Heaney country
The fiftieth anniversary of Seamus Heaney’s Wintering Out is a chance to recognise the importance of place to his poetry
An £800,000 lesson in how not to do diversity training
Lloyds should never have fired Carl Borg-Neal
Masterful pianism
Bartok, Janacek, Szymanowski (Warner)
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
Jam, Jute, journalism, Japanese design
There is a lot more to see and enjoy in Dundee than London reviewers suggested
The big winner of recent opinion polling is despair
As we approach the next election, few people are optimistic about Sunak or Starmer
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Clerical error
Clergy should be in the business of saving souls, not stamping passports
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
Ending Britain’s childcare arms race
What is the end goal of extending childcare provision?
Keep your shirt on
Don your white shirt with a flash of scarlet à la the fashion bitches