Leaf Arbuthnot
Teacher training is a mess. Everyone suffers
Trainee teachers face a fragmented, messy system, fail to get the mentorship and support they need, and end up desperate to leave
Labour plays the blues
Restoring the party’s working-class roots means battling Boris Johnson—and the tide of history
Pastoral passage
Radiant description, linguistic precision and super-saturated dreamscapes in new collections by Matthew Francis and Stephen Sexton
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past