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
The original error of educationalists
Universities are not teaching students to be able to think for themselves
A decade of economic disaster
Only one verdict is possible: Conservative rule has been a comprehensive failure
Grimdull
The fantasy genre is afflicted by a dull and tedious obsession with adolescent cynicism, prurient scenes and one dimensional anti-heroes
How Britain fell in love with cars
From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination
Motorway-mania
Britain in the age of the automobile
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
War on Nazis in Oz and in the air
LeBor reviews Our Dad the Nazi Killer and Masters of the Air
Alan Bates Britain
The case for dramatising every national scandal
The passage from India
The failings of Bazball, like the failings of Britain, are becoming more apparent
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
Profile: Salvador Allende
Lionised by the Left, the Chilean president refused to moderate his Marxist aims in the face of economic chaos
