Cultural Trends
Vinyl solution
Vinyl’s comeback is down to a desire for a tangible point of contact with a performer
Corecore and cultural fragmentation
Young people are picking through the rubble of old aesthetics
Who killed the Women’s Equality Party?
Taken over and destroyed by men
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
British libel laws are a SLAPP in the face to press freedom
We need major liberalisation of libel law
Kemi goes postal
The former business secretary and current Tory leader is grilled over a late delivery
Murders of 2024
Jeremy Black reviews the best (and worst) murders from the last year
Libyans, Parisians and London Irish
Dry-ish, spare, clear-eyed — rare in a world of literary bloat, sentiment and overstatement
International courts are largely irrelevant
An institutional spider’s web cannot stop a geopolitical elephant
The empty road to serfdom
“Vision Zero” is a tyrannical anti-driving dream
Shades of Gray
Never underestimate the mysterious yet powerful Sue Gray
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn, European
Where does shitposting end and statesmanship begin?
