Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
All in the family
Most likely, we live in a comfortable nest of light fictions
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
Frock right off
Dresses, dogs and dinner
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
First-night nerves
Books, beaches and a beloved bullet
Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
Banned played on
The hit on Roisin Murphy’s ‘Hit Parade’
Slut-shaming Barbie
Dental woes and devoted dolls
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Blue-collar brilliance
1970s Pittsburgh wasn’t just a steel town: it was the steel town
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
Why Ukraine almost certainly cannot win
And why the war is likely to continue anyway
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
A craven surrender
The handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius represents a mindless and unjust capitulation to a foreign power
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
John Swinney’s Isla Bryson moment?
The Scottish Government must be made to face the facts on sex and gender
Trump: Post-Modernist?
The former — and future? — president has an awkward but interesting relationship with the truth
Bluesky thinking?
The honeymoon phase of the X alternative could be short-lived
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
