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Today is Ezra Pound’s birthday. Born in Wyncote, PA, son of an assayer at the Philadelphia Mint, Pound became, in turn: a fledgling scholar of Latin, Anglo-Saxon, and Provencal poetry — trying to gather a tradition of verse in... [read full story]
Baroness Buscombe. Not someone I had heard of when I woke up on 16th November. Then an interview with her on Today assailed my ears. A rude awakening. She's chair of the Press Complaints Commission. The last Chair of that body,...
The success or failure of Cameron’s EU policy rests in part on the promised British Bill of Rights. What is clear is that Tories are unclear what should be included in it. One question that is yet to be answered is whether...
Flood claims in Cumbria and Scotland could cost the insurance industry up to £100m, the Association of British Insurers has warned. The insurance trade body, which represents about 15pc of the FTSE 100, said its members had...
Departmental wrangling over "feed-in tariffs" scuppers Ed Miliband's aim to have policy in place by Copenhagen summit Ed Miliband's hopes of having a key government policy on renewable energy in place before the Copenhagen...
