Album of the Year
Album of the year
The best of an inspiringly musical 2023
Outwards and inwards
Drawing the ear into every era of western music
Album of the year
Rich pickings in dark times
Ukraine cannot avoid partition
Ukraine must not capitulate and demilitarise, but de-facto partition is now an inevitability
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Introducing Critical Mash
Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war
The callousness of the virtue signallers
The response to a young singer’s death exposed the cruelty of the self-consciously virtuous
A mum’s place is in the Irish constitution
Ireland’s constitution is rare in protecting mothers, so why change this?
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
A cut above
Above all is the quietude, broken only by the snipping chatter of several scissors
Too much disinformation
Mariana Spring is back, with another series to set the songbirds a-twitter
Chasing votes on foreign soil
Viktor Orbán has created a pipeline of support for his Fidesz political project by granting full citizenship to thousands of ethnic Hungarians in Romania
Their transition too (w/ Emma B)
Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story
Left and right hooks
Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak exchanged sloppy blows as Lee Anderson found a warm welcome in the stands
