On Pop
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
Gone West
What happened to Kanye?
Devil’s music
“Satanic Panic” still haunts heavy metal
Was Houellebecq right?
Reassessing the French novelist vilified for forecasting the Islamicisation of France
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
The enemy of the Civil Service is my friend
Conservatives should hope that Keir Starmer can weaken its grip on British policy
Wanted: a plan to reform the NHS
No serious party can sit out the ideological battle over the remorseless rise in public spending, including on health
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
Progressive realism
Can Labour’s new foreign policy doctrine work in our troubled world?
Making a mockery of Labour
The ministers just can’t yet do chaos like the Tories could
The Conservatives must reject Human Quantitative Easing
It has been a disaster for the party and for the nation
Why was I the only reporter?
On the sentencing of the Rotherham grooming gang
On the awfulness of liberals
The Lords must put the Leadbeater bill to sleep
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
