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
Last lines: Clive James
Fans of Clive James cherished his poetry as much as his other accomplishments. This is an excerpt from Ian Shircore’s new biography, “So Brightly at the Last”, the first full-length study of the man and his muse
The BBC must be saved from itself
Our national broadcaster is on course for financial self-destruction and viewers no longer trust it to be impartial. Boris must rescue it
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty