William McGonagall
My denial is your refutation
Infamy, poetry and exhibitionistic vulnerability
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
How the war wasn’t won
The Supreme Court judgment on sex and the Equality Act is still being opposed and undermined
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Confessions of a Yankee Anglophile
For all our differences, Americans and Britons will never be too far apart
David Lean
The cinematic genius admired by today’s directors
Our first Catholic prime minister?
Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance
A good book about great powers
Jan Rüger has written a fine albeit not definitive book on British and German relations
Why must everything move to Manchester?
Northern England is being framed in patronising reductionist terms
We must strengthen British capitalism
Having a successful capitalist system depends on having a strong state
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
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.
Wrestling with realignment
Labour will use the Irish Sea border as an excuse to realign with the EU’s rules