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Hannah Arendt’s W. H. Auden profile would be unthinkable now
A 50-YEAR-OLD old reminiscence of W. H. Auden in The New Yorker set me thinking about the changes in culture journalism over that time. It would never have been even considered by a commissioning editor today: the poet had…
Only Trump can end Gaza’s suffering
IT WOULD be a mistake to underestimate the significance of President Trump’s rejection of Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that “There is no starvation in Gaza.” The rest of the world was aghast at the brazen affrontery of the…
Brave speech to an empty chamber
LAST Friday, the Conservative MP for Dorset, Danny Kruger, gave a speech in the House of Commons reminding members that their debating chamber had been a chapel. For centuries, from King Alfred the Great to Queen Victoria, it…
Hannah Rich: How parliamentarians behave matters
IN THE coverage of the suspension of the whip from four Labour MPs last week, I was saddened to see a party insider quoted as suggesting that persistent egregious behaviour was to blame — except that an expletive was used to…
What use reporting, if facts are of no interest?
OLDER readers may remember the Watergate scandal, which forced the resignation of President Nixon in 1973. It shaped an entire generation of media people, for whom “investigative journalist” became a title as prized as…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
LEAFING through my copy of Charles Causley’s Collected Poems, I came upon his moving poem “At the Grave of John Clare”. This was timely, as it happened to be the anniversary of Clare’s birth 232 years ago in Helpston.There is…
Anti-Jewish feeling is rife in UK today
A GOVERNMENT-BACKED report was published this week on the rise of anti-Semitism in British society. The authors were Lord Mann and Dame Penny Mordaunt, neither of whom is Jewish. They claimed, The Daily Telegraph reported,…
Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: Is civil war coming to UK?
LAST MONTH, I went to the UnHerd Club, in central London, to be told that we can expect at least 23,000 deaths a year in the coming conflict between groups based in the Islamist cities and those whose base is in the white…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
I WAS recently at a conference, “Restoring the Image”, at Pusey House, in Oxford. Its focus, from many different perspectives, was the imago Dei: what it means to say that humankind is made in the image and likeness of God.…
Angela Tilby: More could be done to support parish ministry
AS THE General Synod gathers for its York meeting, it is worth reflecting on the significant shift in attitudes towards the issues raised by the Save the Parish movement. I have never hidden my sympathies for this network,…
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