Artillery Row

The perversity of the Oasis reunion

The cultural optimism of the nineties has been lost

The meaning of depoliticisation

How the establishment made political questions unanswerable

The war on women’s spaces

Roxanne Tickle’s legal triumph is nothing to giggle at

Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh

A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm

You can’t legislate away hatred

Don’t just do something, stand there

Shattered illusions

The record of the authorities defies denials of two-tier policing

Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum

The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon

Ireland’s forgotten wine history

Put down that pint glass and reach for a bottle

Labour’s move to ban speech on abortion won’t stop outside clinics

All dissent on the subject is being problematised if not criminalised

Piano in wartime

War poems (Somm)