dougiem

The poet’s body exited this world in a white-hot funeral pyre, save for a remnant of his soul.

Other candidates, like Ron DeSantis, are already changing the debate, backed up by an impressive array of think tanks and media projects

I cannot be the only person who notices the asymmetry at work here – the effort to rip apart our own myths and truths while inventing wholly new myths about other groups of people. The former always being negative, the latter always being only ever positive.

It doesn’t matter who you vote for in America — on the matter of illegal migration the results are always the same. To be fair, it is the same in other developed countries.

John Keats, who died tragically with little renown at 25, wrote poignant poems that eventually gave him everlasting life.

I first became aware of Schofield when he was presenting children’s television from the BBC’s ‘broom cupboard’ with Gordon the Gopher. I have not followed the career of either character very closely since. Nor, I think, have many other people.

One of the great secrets of successful institutions is that people are loyal to institutions that are loyal to them. If that pact gets broken at one end then it gets broken at both.

Condemned to ten years in the gulag, the scholar sat in her cell and translated an epic poem—all 16,000 lines—from memory.

Some people seem to make a career of being ashamed (or at least claiming to be ashamed) of their country. Personally I don’t feel it – apart from when I see journalists from the BBC, ITV or Sky questioning our political leaders while they are abroad. Then a great wave of revulsion and national shame […]

Ron DeSantis’s entry into the race has made the Republicans interesting. The contrast with their opponents couldn’t be more striking

Ron DeSantis’ announcement on Wednesday, added to Tim Scott’s earlier in the week, means that the race is finally interesting.

The great Romantic poet lived fast, died young, and scorched it all onto the page.