Five new poems from Rebecca Alexander

Five new poems from Spain by Fiona Pitt-Kethley

A new translation by Timothy Watson

"All but ready to give up in despair, our opinion-formers wallow in recrimination and blame"

Animal welfare is a political open goal — and Brexit is a one-off chance to establish better standards in the UK

The Monty Hall problem requires clear, unbiased thinking as new information comes in

Get a gallery to yourself in Paris: pick an unfashionable country or a passed-over period

There is a rare breed who go to Germany in February: we love to overheat in flagstoned, candle-lit Weinstuben, and freeze in baroque churches and sudden blizzards

‘Why does a nation still admire people like the heroes of Dunkirk who — so far as I can see — they in no way still aspire to become?’

‘There is a contradiction at the heart of the Corbynite appeal. Their politics is Bennism without Tony Benn’