Aston Villa
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Hit the road, Jack
It’s time for Villa fans to let Grealish go
When geek culture was good
A celebration of Spaced
Poor conduct
Shostakovich: Symphonies 4-6 (Decca)
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
The Church of England has to rebuild trust
The next Archbishop must love this church back into health
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
An intelligent book on AI? Very nearly
The threat from AI comes from humans placing too much faith in complex but fallible systems
March of the guys
How did one honorific colonise our language?
Conservatives listen to music too
Gatekeeping the “real” meaning of songs is foolish and futile
Doom and bloom
Live woke and die
The mixed legacy of #MeToo
There is a difference between confronting male behaviour and recreational man-hating
