Culture
Why we love medical drama
The morbid and the erotic mingle in the portrayal of surgery
Why we need our National Heritage Service
In defence of the other NHS
In praise of the middlebrow
Sometimes, a television show really does deserve the hype
Day after day
It is easy to lose sight of art amid personal narratives
Scares and spies
From ghostly thrills to Cold War chills
Bob Dylan and the mystery of traditional music
In becoming Bob Dylan, Robert Zimmerman entered a mysterious, invisible world
A transcendent life
James Stevens Curl’s 2018 demolition of the Modernist experiment signalled the return to high culture
Renewing culture for the Right
Why should the culture sector should still be in thrall to the left?
Caravaggio’s great extremes
Caravaggio’s art is a vivid rebuke to an artificial idealised reality
TalkSport Nationalism is the future
The radio station offers us a model for a healthier British culture
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Can Russell T Davies write “terfs”?
In Tip Toe, Russell T Davies is more nuanced than one might expect — much to the dismay of gender ideologues
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The case for coal
We need more energy, quickly, and where else to get it from?
At a loose end
We are making young adults un-ready for work
Spectres of folk
Can the gallery embrace unofficial culture?
Sing for victory
The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone
Leaving it all in the ring
The great British bullfighting hopeful, Alexander Paul
Campaigners should let assisted suicide go
There is no principled case for using the Parliament Acts to squeeze through assisted suicide
Confessions of an aging pop queen
Madonna once assured us that being an adult woman was something to aspire to
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
Peston’s Inbox
Farage: I’m not worried