Haydn Middleton
A dramatisation of Haydn Middleton’s The Ballad of Syd & Morgan is on BBC Sounds.
God save The Kinks
How did four ornery lads rearing up from the post-war English underclass become national treasures?
Fifth magician blues
He made the tea, he forged the autographs, and only once did he run out of plectrums
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
Brussels, capital city of Surrealism
In Brussels, Surrealism lurks in the most unexpected places
The hidden cost of pronoun politeness
Using untruthful pronouns is not the same as complimenting a bad haircut
In praise of borrowed ideas
AI will not be the death of creativity, and could even enhance it
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Against the relegation of Record Review
Why is Radio 3 mistreating one of its greatest assets?
Web of lies
We can combat misinformation with scepticism and content provenance technology
This vision glorious
Let us allow the glory of Easter to touch our daily lives
Jolyon’s little investigation
Questions have emerged about the founder of the Good Law Project’s approach to privacy
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once