On Pop
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
Whole lotta Love
She makes your average rapper look like a Quaker
Having a bad Bey
If you’re going to jettison the essence of the song, why even bother?
Rock as ritual
Just as Taylor has nailed the emotional lexicon of her people, Finn has nailed it for his
Justin’s dilemma
Spears got slutshamed; Timberlake was the stud
The curious case of the “Gaylor” affair
Whatever the framing, the sexuality is the story
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
Rock benediction
Make-Up gig is a matter of performance
Banned played on
The hit on Roisin Murphy’s ‘Hit Parade’
Be more Wham!
What men today can learn from the success of a 1980s pop duo.
The collapse of the Tory Party has just begun
How Reform crippled the Conservatives
In defence of emotional voting
We cannot expect voters to think in cold rational terms
June letters
Hard power is the only currency that is truly respected
Decline of the underclass
In the 21st century, London has lost its own internal logic
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
Enough with the bigotry mind-reading
Why do people insist on jumping to the least generous interpretation possible?
Labour are playing with fire on abortion
There is no case for decriminalising late-term abortion
The Conservatives must return to the centre
Populist demagoguery has ruined the party
The exec on an unfiltered journey
It seems dangerously liable to foster neuroticism and credulity
Alan Bennett at 90
From the small screen to the stage, Alan Bennett has been the poet of awkwardness and isolation
What the BBC does not say about femicide in London
Racial disparities are evident among perpetrators as well as victims
