Entertainment
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?
Time’s Arrows
The pure, unappreciated entertainment of darts
Top of the pops?
What makes great rock and roll
Cast asunder
No country for old drunk actors?
The fame game
Why has talking about books become the preserve of know-nothing celebrities?
Rabble-rouser in chief
Our increasingly polarised and angry age wants not entertainment, but preachers
Been there, read that
Can we leave old books alone?
Back from the dead
The UK has a rich comics tradition often obscured by the cultural dominance of Marvel and DC
Most Read
The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
I don’t trust the British state
British institutions simply are not functioning in the interests of the people they are meant to serve
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Nigel Farage, community leader
The logic of multiculturalism is turning on its architects
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
The Starmer strikes back
In a galaxy far, far from stable, Labour’s leadership chaos overshadows the King’s Speech
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Badenoch in the bindweed
The Conservative Party leader might please no one by trying to please everyone
When imitation is more then just flattery
An informative and entertaining history of plagiarism in its many forms
Dancing with death
The rush to judge Liam Scarlett was cruel and unjust
“Fauxcest” is not a free speech issue
The government should ban this dangerous and disgusting genre
Just a Prime Minister
Keir Starmer only seems to have one answer to his critics
A.E. Housman
The poet is less read than he once was but his deep love of England still resonates
Homes for Ukraine — and everywhere else
Why were some non-Ukrainians far more likely to enter Britain under a scheme meant for Ukrainians?
The emperor’s new AI
A satirical X account is doing what the media class has failed to do, and report on the great AI delusion
Operatic satire is a Shaw thing
The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay