Artillery Row

You’ll take it and like it

Madchester? Sadchester? No, Gladchester, thought Boris

Conflict in the Caucasus

How much worse will the historic conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh get?

Follow the Who Funds You

Oddly nobody’s shadowbanning conspiracy theories about the Great Barrington Declaration

The Mirror of #MeToo

Luciano Garbati’s new work expresses a widespread decline in symbolic literacy

Are conservatives losing?

Conservative parties may be good at winning elections but have they lost the argument?

Starring Chelsea Peretti as Herself

The moments of interruption in Peretti’s stand-up reveal the constructedness of what we are watching

A series of unfortunate cancellations

Has the vanguard of wokeism taken over the realm of academic publishing?

Are we still talking to the EU?

Government spin is mixing the Brexit divorce agreement with the trade deal

You’ll get tired of the Not Talking

What if the real Brexit drama was … over a long time ago?

Are fictional politicians as interesting as the real thing?

Sir David Hare’s new BBC drama feels small-scale when we are surrounded by far more impressive real-life spectacles