Carol Rumens's poem of the weekPoetryPoem of the weekNonsense, or anti-capitalist allegory? Decide for yourself as Lewis Carroll leads us through the looking-glass.Lines from The Walrus and the Carpenter have been inexplicably running through my head all week, and eventually I had to leave my oyster-bed, go Through the Looking-Glass and find the whole poem. Whereupon, dear readers, as Alice might have said, I decided that it was so beautifully versified, so funny, so horrible and, in the year 2007, so politically resonant, that it deserves to be our Poem of the Week. Read More...
ShortcutsMen's facial hairNearly half of women would not sleep with a bearded man, a survey says. We asked the public what they thought of face fuzz
Images of beards have been all over the internet in recent days, with a craze for bearded men taking selfies with their heads tilted backwards spreading across social media. However, their popularity could be in peril: according to a survey, 43% of women would not sleep with a man with a beard. Read More...
Top 10sPolitics booksFrom accounts by past Tory ministers to oblique cultural references, and Hilary Mantel’s imagining of a premature death, the UK’s only female prime minister has not been overlooked in print
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s most controversial modern politician. She continues to divide opinion in Britain, and arguments about her legacy are as heated now as they have ever been. To many on the left, she represented a harsh, uncompromising approach to politics: she was confrontational, aggressive and overtly ideological. Read More...
