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I’m embarrassed by modern Britain

2024-02-09T10:21:00+00:00

We have decided that the men of violence are winning and we must just keep our heads down Read more

I’m embarrassed by modern Britain2024-02-09T10:21:00+00:00

2024-02-16T13:02:33+00:00

Why we can’t we have a party — Republican or Democrat — that can both protect the borders of the United States and those of our allies? Read more

2024-02-16T13:02:33+00:00

Breaking Bread with the Dead

2024-02-09T10:27:01+00:00

In a single poem, Seamus Heaney pays tribute to his late, great friend—and the poets who preceded them both. Read more

Breaking Bread with the Dead2024-02-09T10:27:01+00:00

The Tory party has nothing to run on

2024-02-02T10:09:14+00:00

One thinks: you plotted to dislodge your boss and then spent multiple evenings debating Liz Truss – for this? Read more

The Tory party has nothing to run on2024-02-02T10:09:14+00:00

The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain

2024-01-30T10:43:40+00:00

Anna Akhmatova wrote of her people’s darkest days, when they were caught in the middle of the twentieth century’s vise. Read more

The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain2024-01-30T10:43:40+00:00

The Trump circus is back in town

2024-01-26T10:47:18+00:00

The oddity is that everybody who is loyal to Donald Trump knows more about him than they can ever admit Read more

The Trump circus is back in town2024-01-26T10:47:18+00:00

The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath

2024-01-22T20:42:11+00:00

Hughes said nothing of his wife’s suicide for decades, until his own final years when he penned the words: ‘Everything in me loved her.’ Read more

The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath2024-01-22T20:42:11+00:00