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Doing the Strand
The glorious heyday of Roxy Music, when just to be a fan of a band that sounded like no other was like being in an exclusive club
Musical scores
Great passages of play evoke great music
Rich history of the revolutionary poor
When rebellion stalked the streets of London
Funny old game
What would Big Jack have made of today’s shoots?
The Beatles: occasionally fab four
Their output was more mixed than many critics would like to believe
Are U.S. sports actually superior to ours?
Sport is another thing to confirm the notion of American exceptionalism
The final furlong
Horse racing is in existential crisis
The Caribbean in the twentieth century
Jeremy Black discusses how have the nations of the Caribbean have adapted to modern times
Can Ncuti Gatwa save a tired franchise?
The new Dr Who is timely, not tokenistic
Trojan charities
Institutional drift leftwards does not have to be inevitable
Most Read
How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
The tears of Keir’s
It was an anticlimactic end to an unconvincing premiership
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
To defeat populism, don’t start here
Views that would be charming in their naivety, were they not so contradictory or facile
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
Out with the old?
Reform seems to be thriving, and Labour seems to be losing, but what can actually change?
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Sex wars, what are they good for?
On Norman Mailer, Germaine Greer and the virtues of intellectual combat
Farage fumbles
“Stop Farage” seems to be a more effective message than “Farage”
The pitfalls of epistemic snobbery
The “Sophie of Dundee” case proves that confirmation bias is a double-edged sword
Wunderbar wines
The love affair between British and German wine is an ancient one
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within