Peter Boxall News Today

SIR – Sir Simon Clarke thinks that changing the leadership of the Conservative Party yet again could result in an election victory (“Rishi Sunak has gone from asset to anchor for the Tories”, Commentary, January 15). If there is some miraculous saviour waiting in the wings to salvage this tumultuous group of people and instil some sense of loyalty, trustworthiness and ability to govern in them, that person is well and truly hidden.

Peter Boxall and his dad both dressed as Santa and sat with kids for a decade. Now, his father has passed away and Boxall is continuing his family's legacy.

There are two writers named Nicholas Royle:

A PUB feared it would have to stop business after being told its road was closing for five weeks over the Christmas period.

SIR – I was a Conservative MP in 1990, when the parliamentary party panicked and dumped the greatest prime minister in living memory.

SIR – I didn’t have a lot of time for Cressida Dick, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, but I must admit that losing the confidence of Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, is about as ringing an endorsement as it is possible to get.

The Global Novel: Mediations   Hours: M 5:05-7:45 Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto Louis Althusser is known to have said that “ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” Assuming that statement is a pretty good fit for traditional literary realism as well, we feel it is time to rephrase this principle for the global novel — which would go something like this: “the global novel represents individuals’ imaginary relation to forms of ...