Ted Hughes
Fishing with Ted Hughes
A new memoir finds the poet in a world of rivers, rods, and reels
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Good enough for politics
We should be more willing to declare some political problems solved
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark
The end of encrypted Europe
Europe’s latest Chat Control may see child protection become a pretext for wider surveillance.
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Ant & Dec: heroically bland
Clear separation between private and public selves is faintly refreshing