After decades of work, Daniel Benjamin, an English teacher at Abington Friends School, has released a collection of ...

If you are searching for your next read, this short guide can help you move in a good direction. The writers here share clear thought, simple feeling, and real life in their work. Some write about ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

Poetry to explore writing from the woods Hidden in the wood: potash, charcoal, resin, tar. Treasures forgotten. If you don’t recognise it, ...

In poetry, the “Ars Poetica” is a kind of poem that examines the role of the poet and poetry. It is a deliberately ...

When discussing the best classic rock songs of every year of the 1970s, it's impossible not to mention songs like "Layla" and ...

Before Gutenberg’s press, every book was self-published. Half a millennium later, that idea has come full circle — this time powered by AI, print-on-demand and social media.

13:11, Tue, Oct 14, 2025 Updated: 15:45, Tue, Oct 14, 2025 Migrants will need to speak and understand English to an A-level standard to work in Britain, under new plans announced by Shabana Mahmood.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Englishness is in crisis, again. The self-conscious agonising over our national “character” — and how far we ...

Rowan McCabe was raised to appreciate art. His mum was a teacher who surrounded him with books, and his stepdad was a punk with a penchant for Swan Lake who encouraged him to broaden his cultural ...