Terry Eagleton: ‘Keir Starmer? He’s a classic petit bourgeois’

Nobody ever erected a statue to a critic, goes the truism. But it’s a measure of Terry Eagleton’s impact on British culture that he’s just received a comparable honour: a hospital ward has been named after him in his hometown of Salford. “Why? I suspect they name them all after well-known Salford lads and lasses. But the uncharitable answer is: it’s a psychiatric ward,” he says with a gleeful laugh.