On Pop
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The ballad of Robbie and Harry
Sometimes, the struggle can become the art
Get into the groove — why vinyl rocks
On the best sound in popular music
Roxy Music but they’re all Kate Bush
The Last Dinner Party are a proper rock band, but the spell is too easily broken
Girls don’t just wanna have fun
“Blue Velvet” is a sinister, savage take on male violence and a feminine urge for vengeance
Literate, satirical, witty and romantic
Neil Hannon is one of the true greats of songwriting
The very curious case of Ethel Cain
A male idea of what it means to be female
Best behaviour can be “rock ’n’ roll”
Is it the music that makes bands great — or the “situations”?
The delicate art of sampling
Every reference you pick up on opens a new horizon
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How religion shapes football fandom
The meaning of football is intertwined with the meaning of faith
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
What has Labour learned?
Pinning the failures of the government on Keir Starmer alone will not work
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
North Korea’s rogue state development
How Kim Jong Un is embracing the modern world
The last thing Labour needs
The revival of the Terminally Ill Adults Bill threatens to consume a party already struggling to hold itself together
We must save the right to smoke
Liberals must not put down the sword against paternalism
A high-speed tour of European History
Europe: A New
History by Roderick Beaton
Will we miss Mahmood?
Shabana Mahmood has been a voice of sanity in the Labour Party
Dead reckoning
How Britain forgot the sea (and why it matters)
Regulations without services
How the state is prohibiting without providing
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses