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Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- England s Most Underrated Political Philosopher

Print this article (scyther5/Getty Images) For those in search of a politics defined by more than material concerns, Coleridge is an indispensable guide. Earlier this week, Aeon published a fantastic essay by the scholar Peter Cheyne about Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered as a philosopher. Coleridge is one of those historical figures who looks a lot different when viewed through the eyes of posterity than he did to his contemporaries. We remember him now mostly as a young, opium-addled poet of wild-eyed genius the author of “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” But he spent more of his public life as a philosopher and a political thinker than he did as a poet. His two seminal political works,

Readers Letters: Scotland should close borders to beat Covid

Readers Letters: Scotland should close borders to beat Covid Scotsman Letters © Is Scotland missing a trick by allowing travel into the country? Over 100,000 coronavirus deaths have now been recorded. The UK has a death rate of 1471 per million of population. Only Belgium and Slovenia have higher rates and even the US with its much-criticised handling of the epidemic has a lower rate than the UK. Regrettably the UK government’s approach to controlling the virus is not working and alternative or additional measures should be considered. UK governments have instituted measures to control the movement of people in the UK but have done little to control the entry of people into the UK, in fact some 4,000,000 people have entered the country from all corners of the world bringing the virus and its variants with them.

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