Ed Sheeran
What happened to sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll?
Music today is anodyne compared to the heydays of Britpop and the sixties and seventies
The gentrification of Drill
The bleak origins of Drill music shouldn’t be forgotten
The goose and the golden egg
The City of London Corporation arguably survives for one reason only: money
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
The West should stop indulging delusions on Ukraine
Ukraine cannot achieve its maximal goals
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
Pornhub exposed
The tenth most visited website in the world was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum
The effects of Brexit are still being misreported
A new paper has received a lot of attention — all of it undeserved
Anti-extremism or opportunism?
The UK government should be more careful to distinguish criminal activities from legitimate opinion
Graduation blues
On the sad decline of the British university
London and the laggards
In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well
