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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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Stella Creasy hates questions
For many politicians, being disagreed with is proof that they are right
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
AI podcasts give me the creeps
The more we outsource to AI, the more forgettable our cultural output is going to be
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Murders for June
Bodies in Brighton and spies in Scotland are features of our first crop of summer murder mysteries
What the reparations debate says about Britain
Social and ideological shifts mean that we face an increasingly divided future
The forlorn hope of growth
Voters are struggling economically but wrongly believe the country to be rich
Sport’s regime changes
Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis
Day of judgement
The judges were determined to maintain the honour of France; it almost worked
Trump: the imprudent king
The President has so far achieved the opposite of what he promised