Maxxed out
Battling imposter syndrome in the brave new world
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
Gone West
What happened to Kanye?
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
Strange brew
The joy of letting unexpected, accidental music in
Lana chameleon
Pitchfork was one of a whole ecosystem of taste-making blogs which laid claim to being the ones who had made del Rey
Long players
As long as the fans are alive, it seems that a band can keep going
Raging irritants
Knowing Rage Against the Machine are political doesn’t overcome my determination to enjoy them anyway
The pain gain
In today’s pop world trauma is an asset
The YA boo gang
Young Adult fiction has become cancel culture’s savage front line
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
Labour is killing British farming
Attacks on British agriculture must be resisted
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Escaping the digital dark age
We cannot rely on digital media to preserve our art and knowledge
Marriage matters
We have to fix the foundations of the family
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
More than one way to skin a cat
The thing about formulae is that they’re an aid, not a guide
Kemi Badenoch’s “ming vase” must be shattered
The Conservative candidate should not be allowed to escape scrutiny
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
