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Hannah Betts
Hannah Betts is a feature writer, interviewer, and columnist across a range of subjects for an array of British broadsheets and magazines. Betts's interests cover all aspects of the zeitgeist: not least, feminism, social and sexual mores, royalty, literature and history. She tweets @HannahJBetts
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Are we being watched?
Secretive Covid-era “spy” agency repurposed to monitor social media during riots
A rollicking, great Kiss Me Kate
Musical and artistic brio can transcend the “problematic”
Welcome to butter mountain
Labour’s extraordinary predicted majority might disappear almost as quickly as it arrives
Anatomy of a populist cynic
As Spain’s national-conservatives get outflanked by “Alvise”, Europe’s “new right” would do well to watch the fringes, too
Ringo Starr
The man cruelly mocked as “not even the best drummer in The Beatles” must be the most underrated musician of all time
Contra Hitchens on the election
It was reasonable not to vote to prevent a Labour majority
Save yourselves
We should not underestimate the deep seriousness of sex
The return of non-crime hate incidents
Labour are attacking free speech through the back door
Blairism at its most zealous
The Labour manifesto is a recipe for bland bureaucratic managerialism
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent