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
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
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.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
A profound Tory
Simon Heffer’s biography of Enoch Powell very much deserves revisiting
The fog of facts
As elections approach, voters are forced to navigate a swamp of spin, distortion, and inaccessible data.
Into the light
The courage and dignity of Gisèle Pelicot should inspire us all
Assisted suicide has been dealt a fatal blow
The Scottish Parliament arrived at the right decision. Westminster should do the same
Averting irrational egalitarianism
How to stop ideological anti-racism damaging our institutions and our country
Reform’s reality gap
Behind the rhetoric of mass deportations, Reform UK’s numbers and logistics don’t yet add up
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Regulating the rogue degree factories
Do universities have the resources and the will to monitor what is happening in their name?
Right-wingers must rediscover their principles
Internalising the logic of liberalism has made defeat inevitable