Poetry
Grace
A poem by Roger Robinson, from “A Portable Paradise”
Easter Sunday, 2020
Poetry by Rowan Williams
Robert Conquest: Garland for a Propagandist
The Commissar of Bray: Robert Conquest satirises Communist hackery
New poetry
“Reader, there never was a choice. The air between these pages is sucked out each time we watch her go”
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
‘Surface Tension’ and ‘Falconry’
The birds are stoned with the humidity / in the sluggish air, the element / condensing on their feathers like beads.
Majority rule; minority rights
It is folly to treat UK race relations as totally divorced from the rest of human experience. We need to look at the larger global picture
American revolutions: Rewriting the language of the unheard
‘Dissenting viewpoints — for example, the belief that America is not an intrinsically racist country—are shunned as further proof of racist pathologies’
The favourites
From Piers Gaveston onwards, controversial courtiers have a long history in British politics.How unusual is Dominic Cummings?