Under a green sea
How, between 1911 and 1917, Owen became the dazzling poet we know and love is the story told in Jane Potter’s new edition of his selected letters
Bizarre miniatures
With flying narrators and women whose hair drags on the floor, there’s something of Leonora Carrington’s weird visions about Williams’s short stories
The sound of the underground
In his history of dance music in modern Britain, Ed Gillett describes police kettling at raves from the 1990s onwards and the attempt by parliament to ban repetitive beats
A true Renaissance man
Albrecht Dürer was an undoubted genius – and no one was more conscious of it than the artist himself, says Philip Hoare
Alexei Navalny’s ‘Stalinist’ jail sentence is no surprise
Alexei Navalny – the most high-profile figure of Russia’s political opposition – has just been sentenced to 19 years in a ‘special…
You can’t handle ‘the truth’
There’s a wonderful scene in the movie A Few Good Men when Jack Nicholson loses his cool and exclaims: ‘You…
Why the Ashes is still magic
Does it ever feel like sport has lost its magic? Smothered beneath endless commentary about political implications and social responsibility,…
I think, therefore I am: the crisis of modernity and transgenderism
René Descartes could not have foreseen the insanity of the 21st Century transgender movement when he wrote, ‘I think, therefore…
Are the Greens more interested in trans rights than saving the planet?
July 2023 could soon be declared as the hottest month on record. Few doubt that climate change is real and…
The private sector won’t save the NHS
NHS waiting lists are at record levels, with the number of people in the queue for treatment at 7.5 million.…
Eddie Izzard tries again to become a Labour MP
As the earth orbits the sun and leopards avoid changing their spots, so Eddie Izzard is again attempting to become…
Watch: Tory minister prepares for a Labour election win
Oh dear. It seems Health Minister Maria Caulfield failed to get the memo on government lines to take this morning,…
Is the ‘era of cheap food’ over?
Not so long ago, some were arguing that cheap food was a problem in Britain. We’re unlikely to hear such complaints now…
Macron is pushing France to tipping point
In the last three years, Mali, Guinea, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Niger have all undergone coup d’états. The most recent…
Could Trump’s indictments boost his election chances?
When Donald Trump’s attorney and spokeswoman Alina Habba took to the streets on Thursday in front of the federal courthouse in…
Is Sadiq Khan trying to make London’s schools more dangerous?
London’s schools are about to become less safe. The city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has decided to appoint Maureen McKenna to…
Truth, treaty, or trickery? The ‘why’ behind the Voice
On the victory podium after last year’s election, the first thing Anthony Albanese did was commit his new Labor government…
Will Justin Trudeau’s divorce affect his career?
Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, have jointly announced on their Instagram accounts that they are…
Our schools are failing – this is why
The news earlier this year that the Labor government in Victoria will use schools to promote a ‘Yes’ case for…
Locking up shoplifters won’t solve Britain’s crime problem
The Conservative party has had an idea. It’s not a very good idea, but it’s an idea and those are…
Why Labour needs a clear victory in this Scottish by-election
The Labour party could hardly ask for better than the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election as a means to judge…
Where did it go wrong for the Scottish Greens?
Dear oh dear. Things haven’t been going well for for the Green party lately and now they’ve just got a…
Britain might be in a wage-price spiral
The Bank of England has raised the base rate yet again, this time to 5.25 per cent, a high not…
Robin Harper is right: the Scottish Greens have ‘lost the plot’
Robin Harper, the first Green parliamentarian elected in the UK, has resigned from the Scottish Greens, saying his former party has ‘lost…
Canada’s Indigenous ‘land tax’ on dockets is a taste of things to come
You will pay reparations, one way or another. It doesn’t matter that no one voted for it, or that politicians…
