Celebrity Culture
Why so unserious?
Against the cult of relatability
Kanye West and celebrity
Celebrities have always existed to be made examples of
Unicorn Frappuccino Instagram Barbie
The meaninglessness of Ariana Grande
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Three act tragedy
The Wagatha Christie case reveals the addictive fun of gossip — but also its corrosive power
The Curious Case of RS Archer
What is it about fake online identities that is so appealing?
Barricading the bully pulpit
The Online Harms Bill promises safety for children but protects the very elites who corrupt and harm the young
The war on normativity
Chris Pratt is a man caught in the middle of a growing rift between two Americas
Lucy Letby’s defenders have failed
They have not provided cause to doubt her conviction
Swiftism’s role in saving the V&A Museum
The unconventional Englishness of the Taylor Swift phenomenon
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
What does it mean to be Christian?
We are in danger of reducing faith to the shallow depths of personality and politics
Over the line
No one should discipline children for asking honest questions or telling the truth
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Inflation and inflated expectations
To understand inflation, we must understand different kinds of inflation
Revising Roman rottenness
The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today
America will be fine
The American system is far more resilient than it looks
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
