1990s
When things could only get better
Fans of the 1990s aren’t nostalgic reactionaries. They celebrate an era of optimism, peace, prosperity and great popular culture
Retro Rodrigo is primo
A new nostalgia listening to GUTS
The last weird decade
We have lost the oddness of the 1990s
The Nineties: smells like Gen X nostalgia
Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis
Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”
The professional classes don’t understand manual work
They cannot understand distinctions between different kinds of labour
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We found the prawns you so thoughtfully left behind the radiator, but there’s still something here, isn’t there?
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
How should we teach about the Holocaust?
Keir Starmer’s social engineering aims seem ill-conceived
Bursary school
Refuse to play the poverty card
In defence of the incredulous stare
To argue is to indulge in a practice, with all that this entails
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
Labour’s favourite banker
Questions can be asked about the relationship between the Labour Party and Anthony Watson
Nothing to declare
Labour have done nothing wrong, but they’re going to stop it
