Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Unholy influences
The weird and not so wonderful world of influencers, and an open invitation to Theodore Dalrymple to get inked
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Feelbad anthem
Liz Truss does indeed “move on out”
Arsenic and old lace
Autumn arrives and nostalgia descends
In arcadia ego
Finite life and Infinite Jest
Free at last?
How can Britney establish a version of her success without the horrors that became integral to it?
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
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
Failing to face the facts
The Tories’ rosy view of their recent election drubbing reveals a reluctance to have the tough intellectual debate needed to secure the party’s future
Outside the box
why traditional topiary is
making a comeback
Green eggs and flam
A fine way to make herbes omelette
The right does need religion
Christianity is politically valuable as well as, you know, true
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
Why nationalisation is not the answer to our problems
Planning, not privatisation, is the big problem with our water
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Itamar Ben-Gvir, heel
The Israeli demagogue is a bleak but interesting model of a modern politician
In defence of division
We cannot allow oikophobes and iconoclasts to define what it means for us to be united
Exactly my bag
Travel they say, broadens the mind. It can also empty the pockets
The case for vapes
Arguments for prohibitionism disappear in a cloud of vapour