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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Labour’s mercurial kingmaker
The eventful career of Josh Simons, the man who gave up his seat for Andy Burnham
In defence of Lara Bird
There is nothing weird or dishonest about having a dual existence
The hitch with the Hitch
How Christopher Hitchens brought me back to Christ
A shameful Bill
Labour is spectacularly failing the British people on immigration
The ties that bind
A revived society tie has raised thousands for hedgehogs — and reminds us what Britain has lost with the decline of the club tie
The hollow men
T. S. Eliot understood contemporary politicians better than they understand themselves
Illuminating shady corners of the soul
Chilling accounts of how men can be destroyed from within
Migration musings
A new book on immigration is welcome in its honestly and openness
The dog that failed to bark
Jeremy Corbyn hoped the local
elections would be a launch pad for
his new party. Instead, Your Party
has mostly been arguing with itself
The problem with optimisation
Feeling maximally healthy and productive is not the point of life
Going Green
A day out with Zack Polanski and friends
The right moment?
Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage are offering some cause for optimism — but is it enough?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Eric Snapper
Anti-biographer
Two faces of America
Copland: 3rd symphony, Walker 5th (LSO Live)
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
art collection quickly