Britpop
Blurred history
Britpop has a bad reputation for stolid, white-boy basicness now, but it’s not a reputation Parklife deserves
Something Changed: Can Jarvis Cocker recapture former glories in 2020?
Alexander Larman asks whether Jarvis Cocker’s latest album release will reignite his former success
Cancelled at Cannes
Sidelining the creator of a national movement is pure, unashamed revisionism
The decaying master of shock
Damien Hirst’s jokes fall flat, but he still asks for his art to be taken seriously
“No-fault” divorce undermines marriage
Why is the government making it easier to break up families?
An unlikely man of the people
Kenneth Clark has been unfairly accused of elitism; he wanted to democratise the glories of Western art and make it available to all
Seductive, scholarly life of the poet-priest
This new biography of John Donne brings the centuries-dead poet to life
Ya Ukrayinets
MPs see what resilient leadership looks like from the Churchill of Kyiv
The fate of the Moskva
Campaign Diary: The sinking of the decaying Soviet-era warship symbolises Russia’s military malaise
In Darwin’s dreamland
A two-year stint on an island in Lake Victoria makes for a poignant and memorable memoir
The Curious Case of RS Archer
What is it about fake online identities that is so appealing?
What would Václav Havel have made of gender wars?
The former Czech president and playwright would have invited JK Rowling over for a beer