Billie Eilish
Thriller vs filler
The album is back and music is better for it
The death of Ideals
TikTok, goblin mode, and the end of Platonism
Self-harm in sheep’s clothing
The feminist fix: At least Schlafly did not pretend to be one of us
The next age of prude
Could Billie Eilish lead a mainstream pushback against the excesses of 2010s “choice feminism”?
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Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
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
Pleasure and persuasion
Jean Sibelius: Symphonies 1-7 (Ondine)
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
The meaning and meaninglessness of Makerfield
Andy Burnham has triumphed — but can he maintain his success?
Left-wingers are wallowing in post-truth politics
Complaints about right-wing “fake news” have obscured the biggest misinformation problem
The importance of ancestry
Remembering a great scholar of nationalism
Hector Savage
How to account for this sudden access of celebrity?
Angst in the Anglosphere
England’s existential crisis is being played out at the World Cup
Exile and exaltation
Bohuslav Martinu: The Symphonies (Deutsche Grammophon)
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
A frozen war?
The US should put stubbornness aside and end the conflict with Iran
Good news for the rule of law
Activists who break the law should not be able to appeal to their high-minded motives
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence