Ted Hughes
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
What we don’t talk about when we talk about mental illness
We talk about mental health differently – but is it an improvement?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
White male conservatives for identity politics
Kemi Badenoch’s supporters should have fewer illusions
Disability is not an identity
Long before trans rights lobby, disability activists were denying biological reality
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
Too many silences in this book about music
The hazy treatment of what “music” even entails falls flat
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
The right to learn at home
Home education is a powerful alternative to the box-ticking of state schooling
Going solo
This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
