Times Literary Supplement
Life gets worse for verse
Poetry has been put through the academic wringer and obfuscated by jargon
Who let the dons out?
Leave literary reviews to reviewers rather than score-settling academics
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Academic freedom needs legal safeguards
Violations of academic freedom are endangering the progress of knowledge and the pursuit of truth
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Rocking the Reichstag
Women across the world have been protesting against the bizarre new German self-ID laws
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
Debunking the decline deniers
Armed police at Christmas markets are a bad sign however you look at it