On Pop
All you need is luck
Everything with The Beatles happened at double time, thrilling but draining too, says Sarah Ditum
The only thing to do is dance
When things are desperate, you don’t want to be the audience, you want to be the show
Losing my head over Catherine
How the musical sensation, Six, uncovers more than just the stories of Henry VIII’s wives
Calculated absurdity
I want to listen to music that sounds like the dumb hopefulness of being young that I once couldn’t wait to rid myself of, says Sarah Ditum
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He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The martyrdom of Young Bob
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Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
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A range of Stratford anecdotes
The Walliams dilemma
Not exiles, but stayers
White South Africans are not abandoning their home
Ban their benefits and deport them
Our interview with Zia Yusuf
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy
Tolerating the intolerant — and the intolerable
The right’s refusal to confront political Islam has helped entrench it in Britain
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Britain and brutalism: listed, not loved
The visitor numbers and heritage status of the Southbank tell us nothing about what people actually want to look at
Emin: from the bed to the grave
Not so much a fresh start, as an opportunity to finally take her concerns in earnest
Grin and bear it
Carelessness and frivolity sabotage any attempt at a serious discussion
Fell for it again
Britain’s pro-development enthusiasts mistook fantasy politics for the real thing — and are now paying the price.