MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
This baby’s mother is a princess.
This baby will not be a prince.
This baby was born in a private hospital.
This baby is defective.
This baby was fixed in utero.
This baby will probably walk.
This baby was never wanted.
This baby was never born.
This baby killed its mother.
BEN COWLES samples the many sonic and social therapies of Manchester Punk Festival 2026, and is ready again to smash capitalism
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician


