House of Fraser
We aren’t being served
The closure of Jenners of Edinburgh is an object lesson in how to kill the department store
Is Britain closed for business?
Stacks of extra administration will make it even harder for businesses to turn a profit
The attractions of extremes
Are we going to become ever more passive consumers of other people’s thoughts and memories?
The downfall of the podcast-industrial complex
How did some of our finest podcasters get the election so wrong?
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
The US is getting what it wants in the Middle East
Israeli escalations against Hezbollah are not defiance but an extension of U.S. strategy
Twilight of the hacks
“A Very Royal Scandal” and the emptiness of modern journalism
Countdown to energy apocalypse
What will happen when the wind doesn’t blow?
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
This is England, nor are we out of it
Englishness isn’t an ethnicity, or even an idea. It’s more like auto-destructive art
