Clive James
New poems
New poems
New Poems
Four New Poems
The Later Yeats
A new poem by Clive James
A Veil of Silence Over Murder
Here in Britain, and all over the world, men are killing women on a point of ‘honour’. Why do we tolerate the intolerable?
Give Us Poetic Justice
Clive James: The Oxford Professorship may be the most coveted job in poetry. But the rules of election have to be changed to stop it becoming a poisoned chalice
Nefertiti in the Flak Tower
A new poem
Healey’s Bully Pulpit is Worth Revisiting
The memoirs of one of our most able and most cultivated politicians provide a useful reminder of the virtues of ordinary politics
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts