Sylvia Plath
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
How to become a cult writer
What does it take for an author to become idolised way beyond their literary merit?
Don’t bite the hand that feeds the birds
The government’s flawed biodiversity analysis endangers successful state-funded schemes
Britain should get serious about organised crime
We underestimate how much crime is the work of small, nasty groups of people
Still knocking on the door
For all the promises, subpostmasters are still waiting for compensation
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Are we being misled on Georgia?
Claims of electoral fraud are serious — but they have not been substantiated
Red lines
Fighting Ulster’s flag downgrade
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
History unmakers
Our national treasures are morbid symptoms of a country in decline
The French far right are losers
Will Rassemblement National will ever be the ruling party?
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
