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
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
Perfect, plastic, pop princesses
The performance art of selling sterile sex
Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Traffic hazards
Driving in the uncanncy valley, Dartmoor’s cagoule warriors and the wizarding weirdness of the Rowling fandom
Most Read
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
Against Northernism
“Northernism” is a superficial form of cultural branding, not a serious political project
The big crunch
How university expansion failed to prepare Britain for the future
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Was the Boriswave a Brexit betrayal?
A decade later, the public memory of Brexit’s immigration pledge is clearer than the campaign was
Embers to tend
The brilliance of Sappho has been obscured by rumour and neglect
Wilde times at the country house
Gerald Barry’s outrageous The Importance of Being Earnest manages to overmatch the virtuoso original
The sleep of reason
Sir Mark Rowley’s forgotten police thriller reveals the assumptions, anxieties and moral universe of Britain’s managerial elite.
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Scandalous but Scottish
Why Scotland experienced another yellow wave
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Reimagining the people’s palace
A building that deserves to be admired as an example of intelligent and sophisticated urban planning
Burying their heads in the ash
The battle against the illicit tobacco market has not been won
Rage against the dying of the night
The loss of the soft-lit splendour of London after dark