On Pop
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.
Perfect, plastic, pop princesses
The performance art of selling sterile sex
Rap’s dilemma
Sarah Ditum unwraps the rap culture war.
Micro niche
The best piece of pop
Funny guy
The charm of Lewis Capaldi
Taking the piss
If you’re going to be provocative, people are going to be provoked
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Midnight’s mass
Taylor Swift’s talent for ordinariness that makes her the most exceptional artist at work today
Take the Bizkit
How Woodstock ’99 foreshadowed the MAGA masses of 2016
Two cheers for pedestrianisation
Pedestrianisation cannot solve all of Oxford Street’s problems
Tawdry tales
The Tales of Hoffmann, Royal Opera House
A dark day for Australian women
It takes more than a document to prove that you are female
Reaping a bitter harvest
Labour are struggling to justify their own policies
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The iconoclast’s last defence
Artistic excuses for Just Stop Oil are confused and opportunistic
October letters
Misquoting Shakespeare and a rounded sense of humour
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
You reap what you sow
Poor Daniel Zeichner was left to face the outrage that the Budget had caused
