What lies ahead for the Australian election?
Labor’s Anthony Albanese might have a chance
Watching alone
How the internet killed pop culture
Ghosts at the feast
Christmas ghost stories are meditations on darkness at the darkest point of the year
Emerging from my echo chamber
#debate or #nodebate, should that be a question?
Good news clickbait
Cleo Smith has been found, just rejoice at that news
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
When comedy goes right, it’s very wrong
The Goes Wrong Show expertly mines hilarity through disaster
Can Davies save the Doctor?
A journey back in time might be the only thing that can revive Doctor Who
It’s not Rooney, it’s you
When identity is the primary means of engagement with art, criticism is reduced to mud-slinging
Australia’s Covid crisis
Australia is still standing at the gates of hell, while the rest of the world has already been through it
Why the Conservatives will be anti-woke
Standing up to the thought police is key to making change
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
Defend the bishops’ bench
Removing the Lords Spiritual from the House of Lords would be constitutional vandalism
“Nice” people need to read this book
How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
No, Churchill wasn’t the bad guy
The debate over Britain’s wartime leader has been reignited by an ignorant revisionist account
Don’t trust the Runnymede Trust
The law is too indulgent of political charities
Improvement and impoverishment
Urban life from the poorhouse to the public house
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
