David Bowie
David Bowie was a political shapeshifter
The pop enigma veered between the far right and the right on
Coolness and cancellation
We should not just people with problematic pasts by how much we like their work
Those golden years
Ultimately it’s the music that brings to each of us our personal Bowie
The legacy of David Bowie: five years, what a surprise
Alexander Larman on why the late, great David Bowie remains such a totemic and iconic figure in his life
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Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Plant sentience
Pollination, long treated as a largely mechanical transaction, begins to look more like a dialogue
How the cranks won
Britain’s ruling ideology is founded less on what elites believe than on who they fear
What is wrong now was wrong before
Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
The Falklands tragedy
British weakness is endangering the Falklands
Europe’s French nuclear shield?
With the NATO alliance under threat, will
Europe really trust President Macron’s
offer of a pan-EU nuclear deterrent?
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
A love-hate affair
Finger-lingering over hideous fluffy lilac footwear
A day out at Unite the Kingdom
Tommy Robinson’s latest demonstration was a peculiarly hammy affair
Patchett is as good as she needs to be
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