On Pop
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
The brilliance of Richard Thompson
What sounds like two guitars overlaid in the studio is all coming from him
Most Read
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
The lonely death of Henry Nowak
We must draw lessons from a horrendous and disgraceful case
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Against the scolding mob
MPs have helped to create the puritanism that is now coming for their drinks
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Marriage and muscular liberalism
The Fury controversy exposes the contradictions behind Britain’s new marriage laws
We must get serious about anti-Jewish terror
Britain faces a dangerous rise in anti-Jewish violence and must get real about its implications
The revolt against the public
The establishment cannot accept ordinary citizens having power
Bonfire of the fallacies
Two opposing ideas about hard power and foreign policy — legalism and nihilism — are being exposed by the Trump
administration
Schrödinger’s schism
The Anglican Communion, for all of its internal disagreements, has yet to fall apart
Reclaiming Christian nationhood
Linking the Christian faith to our national identity is not radical (or American)
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
Laughing to hide the tears
Beware: prime ministerial jokes ahead
Against the censorious right
Miriam Cates is wrong about free speech and anonymity