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
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The case against recognising Somaliland
The Somaliland lobby is being dangerously naive about the realities of the region
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
Indefinite leave, unlimited access
While Westminster fixates on survival, a deeper battle will decide whether mass migration becomes a permanent and costly feature of the state
Who wants to be a patriotic millionaire?
More taxation will not solve our economic woes
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
Whistler by Ann Patchett; The Smiths: A Novella by Michael
Bracewell; Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
The price is right
Stories about outrageously profligate eating have the appeal of scandal
Bye bye, Beeb?
A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC
Institutional feminism against women
The likes of Julia Gillard and Jess Phillips have enabled misogyny
Tax hikes? Take a hike
Andy Burnham must get a grip on spending rather than squeezing the taxpayer
Israel does not run U.S. foreign policy
There is nothing wrong with questioning foreign influence — but that influence has been overstated
Sad Scottish schadenfreude
For too many nationalists, England losing is mistaken for Scotland winning
Labour’s toxic medicine
The more they treat the symptoms of decline, the worse things get