WH Auden
The misfits of Middagh Street
What a bunch: gifted and impossible to live with
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
Rhyme or reason
Poetry doesn’t need to be useful
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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
The government must defuse a legal time bomb
Countries of the “Global South” could sue the UK over greenhouse gas emissions
Under the volcano
As Sicilians say, Mamma Etna gives more than she takes away
DeepMind delusion
The superstar Demis Hassabis is on a mission to create a God-like superintelligence
Profile: Alec Douglas-Home
The quintessential Tory grandee who
was the last of his kind: a politician
motivated by service to his country
Killing with kindness
The MoD’s drive for a net zero military is an ideological folly that risks national security
The third man
Bridget Phillipson’s “Code of Practice” has clarified nothing on sex and gender
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
Any foreigner can have a UK degree — for a fee
Every British university has been chasing the benefits of foreign income with frenzied excitement
Why do we still have social housing?
A decade working in Social Housing taught me that the sector’s perverse incentives guarantee the perpetuation of the very poverty it exists to eradicate
A second Northern Ireland?
How the SNP squandered a major opportunity for independence
The false filibuster framing
There was nothing undemocratic about resistance to the Assisted Dying Bill