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
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Solent mean
Solent PhD student frozen out after introducing Roger Scruton into seminar
Night of the big bins
How Count Binface changed the face of Britain forever
The imprudence of Dame Prue
Dame Prue Leith is spreading errors about assisted suicide
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Don’t bet against the SNP
The complete ineptitude of their rivals has kept them at the top of Scottish politics
The myth of banned books
If transgression is fun and easy, it is probably not transgressive
Spaceships, ghost ships and sheep
The secret sauce of Project Hail Mary: it’s a laugh
Britain’s mutilated constitution
We must restore the old to build the new
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Haskel’s challenge
Andy Burnham does not have much time to kickstart growth
Rich portrait of a master poet
Auden, Peter Ackroyd
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
NATO’s Ankara moment
NATO’s middle powers must not depend so heavily on the USA