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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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
Peeves and a weekend in Worcester
Thoroughly entertaining, darkly funny and humanely nasty
Banish the business bullshit
Vacuous business-speak is not merely irritating, it can lead to bad decisions and bad outcomes
The emperor’s old advisor
McSweeney’s performance before MPs suggests age and experience hasn’t brought clarity — only better excuses
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Fisticuffs over the fourth movement
When did classical music become so disturbingly polite?
The injustice of early releases
The government is failing victims for the sake of political convenience
Scotland’s biggest legal scandal
Hundreds of men could have being denied their right to a fair trial because of a justice system that rules important character evidence inadmissible
Symphonies have life
John McCabe: 2 symphonies and cello concerto (Signum Classics)
Smart but ill-suited
Michael Anton was too good for the administrations that he helped to create
