sobel Williams Carcanet
Cheeky blinder
Isobel Williams’s treatment of selected poems is literary charcuterie, as neat as it is naughty
Let’s diversify the curriculum
If we really want diversity, we need to get more traditional
Why Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes didn’t work
It is very hard to blend comedy and politics
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
The big picture
A story of modern Britain, a moral tale, of venality, hubris and fraud
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
A bloodless coup in Bucharest
How can elections be cancelled without substantive reasons even being presented?
Don’t let it go
Communal singing is good for the soul
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
The party that fell for a lie
The WEP is unable to give a straight answer to the question: what is a woman?
