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
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
Two-tier policing is not new
Our authorities must operate without fear or favour again
The truth about Notting Hill Carnival
We should be more honest about the dark side of the event
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Degrees of scepticism
Overseas students never came to Britain so they could bring their children, it’s a coincidence
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Why Europeans don’t get Elon
Twitter has brought us into direct, unfiltered contact with an America we don’t really know or understand
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
