I’m embarrassed by modern Britain
brett2024-02-09T10:21:00+00:00We have decided that the men of violence are winning and we must just keep our heads down Read more
Breaking Bread with the Dead
brett2024-02-09T10:27:01+00:00In a single poem, Seamus Heaney pays tribute to his late, great friend—and the poets who preceded them both. Read more
The Tory party has nothing to run on
brett2024-02-02T10:09:14+00:00One thinks: you plotted to dislodge your boss and then spent multiple evenings debating Liz Truss – for this? Read more
Netanyahu’s urgent warning to Americans: Iran is targeting the US — and the rest of the West
brett2024-01-30T10:40:45+00:00Over the weekend, I sat down with the Israeli prime minister at the country’s security HQ in Tel Aviv for an exclusive interview. During it, he issued an urgent warning
The Woman Who Captured Russia’s Pain
brett2024-01-30T10:43:40+00:00Anna Akhmatova wrote of her people’s darkest days, when they were caught in the middle of the twentieth century’s vise. Read more
The Trump circus is back in town
brett2024-01-26T10:47:18+00:00The oddity is that everybody who is loyal to Donald Trump knows more about him than they can ever admit Read more
The Doomed Romance of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath
brett2024-01-22T20:42:11+00:00Hughes 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 long-overdue banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir
brett2024-01-19T19:14:09+00:00It is hard to convey to anyone in a position of power in the UK just how weak our police have made us look Read more