Indie music
Play Misty for me
Father John Misty has faked his way into a kind of blazing honesty
When I talked over Franz Ferdinand
The only band I’ve seen and wish I’d been paying attention to
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
The unusual, the unsigned, the uncategorisable
Hip-hop has its place, but not necessarily on an alternative daytime radio station
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Excessive producer responsibility
Virtue-signalling policies are picking the pockets of consumers
Papal pressures
The Pope was well-received in Spain, but political tensions have been mounting
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.
Tony Blair cannot escape politics
And our politics cannot escape from Tony Blair
Manic and messianic
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Royal Shakespeare Company
Hyperventilating vexillology
Once councils flew the symbols of the realm; now they proclaim the enthusiasms of the age
The mirage of majesty
Royal charm cannot disguise Britain’s shrinking power in a transactional world
Rewatching a TV show from a lost world
In River Cottage, a chef escaped to Dorset from London in search of the good life
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
Crushing the real progressives
The Islamic Republic of Iran, now under fire from the demonic West, is the most progressive society on earth