On Pop
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
Feelbad anthem
Liz Truss does indeed “move on out”
Free at last?
How can Britney establish a version of her success without the horrors that became integral to it?
Lamar’s lament
Good art doesn’t have to be politically correct
Hot sauce
Lil Nas X is the greatest show in the world right now
Music monsters
The perverted predators of pop
Smoke Signals
How a song can drift across a life
With their pants down
The Conservatives are in a nightmare they cannot wake up from
Who’s advising the migration advisors?
We deserve more transparency when it comes to who and what influences British immigration policy
Reclaiming free speech in academia
Proposed Office for Students guidelines make for an imperfect but promising start
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
The morality of altruism
People have a limitless capacity to convince themselves that what’s right coincides with what’s best for them
He’s not the messiah, he’s a transwoman
Transsexual Apostate is a disturbing book, written for disturbing times
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Why the Intellectual Dark Web has failed
Internet ideologues have yet to formulate a coherent vision to turn their ideas into action
Common prayer
Britain, and her monarchy, have a language fitted for times of joy and sorrow alike — so why does the Church of England make such poor use of our traditional liturgy?
Why Labour has the best history books
Labour continues to blunder down that long blind Blairite alleyway, unable to turn back or find an exit
Free speech freeze-up
Reactions in Britain to the attempted suppression of NatCon suggest a bleak future for freedom of speech and thought
