Born at the peak of the Roman empire, Christianity quickly […]

The phrase “alliterative poetry” immediately connotes archaism, and a literary […]

Is there any point in being a satirist in the […]

With most conservative parties split between populist and establishment wings, […]

Ron Boswell, my former parliamentary colleague, has produced a superb instruction manual for anyone wanting to make a mark on our public life. His prescription is simple enough: have strong principles, be a good listener; be largely indifferent to recognition or reward, and work assiduously for the people you’re pledged to represent

It is more than a little alarming that, sooner or later, the preservation of Western civilisa­tion will be in the care of a damaged generation. As examined by Jonathan Haidt and Abigail Shrier in two new and disquieting books, there is much in that thought to keep one awake at night

  The fact that Stephen Edgar writes accentual syllabic verse, […]

As successive small Australian poetry publishers -- has there ever been any other kind? -- go out of business, new ones spring up to replace them. Four new volumes of Australian verse testify that such optimism, so often and ultimately dashed, can and does produce works of lasting worth

The ousted Labor leader noted in his 1973 memoirs that the party had passed 'for the time being from the traditional control by the working class … to quasi trade union-cum white-collar-professional control'. Some 50 years on, the accuracy of that observation is beyond dispute. Also clear is that Labor will never again resemble its former self, its aims and purpose ever more abstracted in this era of woke