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 cult of Captain Tom is dead
Brits should stop gorging on sentimentality
Why we need a new movement
The timid world of BritLit needs to be shaken up by a mutinous new clique of writers
Artwashing
Lisa Hilton at the Venice Biennale
Grace in the face of prejudice
Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha has been published in Britain for the first time
Playing ball
The best way to sport a baseball cap
Henryk Mikolai Gorecki: Piano pieces (Accord)
A furious, unfiltered revelation of the experimental heart of a familiar composer
Labour of love?
A year in the life of a “TERF” Labour Party Women’s Officer
Small town radio
Letters from the Falklands front: when broadcasting was a matter of life or death
Trans activism before medical standards
Professional counselling bodies have sided with Stonewall against standard paediatric practice
Heroism and high strategy
The story of how British commandos did the impossible
The LGBTQ+ monkeypox failure
Gay men have been failed by a lobby that trades in fear rather than facts