Entertainment
Lords of the wrestling ring
Professional wrestling podcasts have become almost as popular as wrestling itself
Living in the 80s
Did popular culture peak four decades ago?
Escaping Plato’s goon cave
Vision Pro illuminates the telos of modernity and the narrowing of human experience
The best of The Rest Is …
Sequel podcasts are emerging with the inevitability of sprouts from an old potato
Boremageddon
Ricky Gervais’s tiresome adolescent offencemongering sent me to sleep
The eyes of the law
The argument over VAR remains unsettled
Up for the cup
Hoping for a golfing renaissance in Rome
Physical media matters
We can’t trust streaming services to archive entertainment
Are you not entertained?
The emptiness of popular culture
The TV boss who decides what you watch
Or does he?
Kemi’s men of mystery
The second tier Conservatives had a chance to shine
The golden age of criticism?
There are good reasons why serious writers no longer review in the national press
Can we save our parish churches?
It will take cultural as well as institutional change
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Charli’s carefree bratitude
This is music for people who are tired of being careful
Vorsprung durch Technik R.I.P.
The vaunted German model really is kaput — bust
Don’t patronise female students
It’s insulting to think that women have to be treated with kid gloves
London has lost its soul
National renewal must start with the capital
Back in the arena
If you liked Gladiator, you’ll like Gladiator II
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
