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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 An...

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 measur...