Adele
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
Virtue Signalling
MPs get unconscious bias training, Terfs are sacked, Adele offends the woke gods and Stonewall get into Rugby
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
A bloodless account of blood-soaked times
Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece by Adrian Goldsworthy
What on Earth is the point of the Lib Dems?
With neither power nor principles, the party is an absolute waste of space
Clarifying the fog of the gender wars
Michael Foran’s new book will undoubtedly be celebrated, but is it essential?
That viral Reddit post does not say a lot about society
Don’t confuse your caricature of your outgroup for the real thing
Better Slayyyter than never
Like the first Strokes album if Max Martin had produced it
The great recoupling
Our politicians have a bizarre sense of costs and benefits when it comes to energy