Barney Hoskyns
Barney Hoskyns is Editorial Director of Rock’s Backpages. He tweets at @BarneyHoskyns
Irritatingly glib take on a golden year
Stanfield adds little to the history of rock that hasn’t been said better elsewhere
The BBC can be a drag
The priorities of its reporting, especially on gender issues, can be absurd
Ireland’s surrogacy scandal
The Irish inferiority complex grasps at any first — no matter how low
Polls at the pics
Films offer windows into the British and American political processes
A bore film
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is not just ahistorical, it is dull
The thorn in Starmer’s side
Why does Rosie Duffield scare the Labour leadership?
All politics is existential now
NatCon DC was a reminder of the urgency of our political moment
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change