Comic Books
William Brown turns one hundred
“I’ll thcream and thcream and thcream until I’m thick”
Happily devoid of consequences
The Beano magazine retains its quality but not all its character over the decades
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
The decline of industry
English towns faced unique new challenges following deindustrialisation
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Total eclipse of the art?
Activistic artists and curators are making art a niche political endeavour
The WASPI women should blame themselves
No injustice has been done to them
One of the greats
Bathos, fatalism, heartbreak: these are the pillars of a MacColl song
Free speech is fascist
Words must be controlled to ensure that Starmer’s subjects behave themselves
Labour’s economic policies are incoherent
Labour risks collapsing under the weight of its own inner economic contradictions
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
